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September 2020 £ Pr ice less
The Clifton Chron ic les
Cov id Month 6
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September 2020—Covid Month 6
Dear Fellow Residents Still in Lockdown and we are still online only. We will be back on your doormats just as soon as we can safely produce the Chronicles. Meanwhile there are some signs of more ‘normal’ activity and some tantalising promise of things to come just over the horizon: Services back into church every week
DIY Farm Run 12-20 September Scarecrow Competition rescheduled for 19/20th Sept,
New club suggestion—Petanque! See page 16 Golden Lion Golf in full swing, p 16
Keep Well, Keep Fit, Beat Covid 19!
Kathy Blackmore, on behalf of the Chronicles Team
Some of our regular Contents
P Contents (Alphabetic)
34 Advertising Index
All Saints Academy
6 Ministry Team Column
29 Crime Stats
18-19 Farm Run
32-33 Other Churches
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15 Neighbourhood Plan
22-23 Planning
7 Registers
Samuel Whit. Academy
20 Scarecrow Comp.
4-5 Who’s Who in Clifton
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Rector Revd Caren Topley, 8 Rectory Close, Clifton. [email protected]
01462
615499
Churchwardens Linda Dawes, 58 Church Street
Kevin Gray, 21 Fairground Way
816074
812820
Readers Robin Welsford, 13 Pedley Lane
Ruth Gray, 21 Fairground Way
811303
812820
Organist &
Choirmaster
Peter Maundrell,
22 Beech Avenue, Biggleswade
01767
314621
PCC Treasurer Frank Rivett 27 Purcell Way, Shefford
851816
PCC Secretary Philippa Whittington 27 Purcell Way, Shefford
851816
Church Hall Bookings
Ruth and Kevin Gray 21 Fairground Way
812820
Bell-ringing Cpt Philippa Whittington 27 Purcell Way, Shefford
851816
Mothers’ Union Betsy Gray, 18 Hitchin Lane, Clifton 629690
Messy Church Suzanne Stapleton, 811929; Ruth Gray 812820
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Head-teacher Mrs Carol Ward 628444
School Governors
Chair: Philippa Whittington Vice-chair: Peter Blackmore
851816 646371
School Bookings Justine McCarthy, 628444
PTA Kerrie Cope, Kate Barker, (Joint Chairs) Email: [email protected]
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Parish Council
Chairman
Clerk (Community Centre bookings)
Ray Dart, 8 Alexander Close
Kerri Kilby [email protected]
811590
07547 129038
MP Nadine Dorries,
Constituency Office, St Michael’s Close, High Street, Shefford
811992
Councillors Henlow, Arlesey, Henlow Camp & Stondon
Richard Wenham, 2 Jordan Close, Henlow SG16 6PH,
Ian Dalgarno, 172 High Street, Arlesey SG15 6TB,
0300300 8563
735510
Who’s Who in Clifton p1
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Editor Kathy Blackmore, Hawarden Cottage,
47 Church Street, Clifton 646371
Advertising Advertising year runs May to April
[email protected] 646371
Distribution John Good, Pedley Lane, Clifton 812596
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Biggleswade
Gardening Club
Mr A Gray
www.biggleswade.gardenclub.care4free.net
01767
221428
Brownies Email: [email protected]
www.girlguiding.org.uk
Clifton Action
Group
Mrs Diana Talbot, Secretary.
[email protected] 811989
Care Scheme 07817 614654
Cricket Club
Chairman: Rob Davidson
Email: [email protected]
V-Chair: Josh Scandrett: 07805 427129
07376 490434
Friends All Saints Church
Keith Pledger, 2 Chapel Close [email protected]
629020
Football Club Jason Shacklock, 816881
Guides www.girlguiding.org.uk
Langford Tennis Club
www.langfordtennisclub.org.uk Contact; Paul Metcalfe
700991
Police Contact The snr community officer: PS Simon BUTLER, Based in Biggleswade
01234 842531
Providence Baptist Church
Rainbows girlguiding.org.uk
Residents Association
BobSmith, Secretary 30 New Road
812336
Scouts (All ages)
Toddlers [email protected]
WI Linda Patch 814517
Woodlands Pre-School, Breakfast & After School Clubs www.thewoodlandspreschool.co.uk [email protected]
811486
Who’s Who in Clifton p2
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Dear Friends,
The church is not the building, the church is the people! We are Online on Facebook and YouTube for those still in isolation or unable to get to church. Recently, I have been invited to care for St Mary’s at Haynes, as this parish is without a priest for the near future. We look forward to joining with them on Zoom church on Sundays, as they are welcomed into our Benefice for the time being. As we go to press, All Saints’ Church Clifton is now OPEN for worship on Sundays 10.30am-11.15am and the second Wednesday of every month, 10am-10.30am. Even if the church can only seat approximately 30 people safely for the moment instead of its capacity for 200! You can reserve a place to come to church. Please email me/phone me and a space will be made for you. If the demand is higher than the capacity, then another service will be put in place. See the Clifton home page for more details. We have a wonderful Lay Ministry Team who take services on their own. A Reader has been trained to preach and lead services and Lay Leaders of Worship can lead and read reflections. We have a trainee priest (Ordinand) and an Assistant Curate who will be ordained a Deacon from 26th September at St Albans Abbey Cathedral. They will be leading our service of Morning Prayer on alternate weeks a beautiful reflective service with our organist playing exerts of music to help us pray and we are grateful for the bell ringing team who have started to ring us back to worship in the church building. If you would like anyone to be prayed for please let me know. We can pray for you at our services or in private in our prayer group.
Every Blessing Revd Caren
For all details of online and church services see:
www.clifton-beds.co.uk
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All Saints’ Church
From the Registers
Funeral at the Crematorium August 4th Susan Dilley
Funeral in Church followed by Crematorium August 26th John Fenwick
Poppy Appeal 2020
Unfortunately due to Covid-19 there will not be a door to door collection and no poppies on sale in any shops. This is because of the risk of the spread of the virus from the poppy trays. This is a decision made by the British Legion. It is such a shame but is understandable in these difficult times.
If you would like to make a donation to the British legion please contact them directly:
https://www.britishlegion.org.uk/get-involved/ways-to-give/donate
Hopefully we will be able to restart our collections next year.
Take care everyone and stay safe, Denise Panton
I hope that there will be more information next month about what arrangements can be made for an act of remembrance in Clifton.
As a community we have always supported this event and the appeal from the British Legion and I hope that everyone will continue to be generous. The British Legion says:
In these unprecedented times The Royal British Legion is working hard to support the most vulnerable in our society, be it older veterans that we care for, those who suffer from social isolation, or those who are simply overwhelmed by the challenges associated with the Covid-19 pandemic. We simply cannot do it without you.
Kathy Blackmore, Editor
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Introducing our new Assistant Curate
Dear Friends, My name is Carrie Steer and I have recently joined Rev. Caren Topley and her ministry team at All Saints Clifton and Southill. I was licensed as a lay worker on 28th August by the Bishop of Bedford and in September I will be ordained deacon and serve as an assistant curate within the benefice. I am married to Jonathan and we have two boys, Thomas, who is 12 and Jonah, who is 8. We live in the nearby village of Silsoe.
Before taking up full-time church ministry, I lived in Dorset and worked as a Health Visitor supporting families with young children. I was also involved in setting up community development projects and leading public health initiatives. My journey towards ordination began about 10 years ago with a gentle sense of God calling me into priesthood. My church ministry up to that point had involved leading contemporary worship at services and I studied Music, Worship and Theology at the London School of Theology, specialising in Singing. When my family and I moved to Bedfordshire 5 years ago I felt the time was right to begin the formal discernment process with the Church of England and I was delighted to be recommended for ordination training. I have recently completed a 2-year full time context pathway programme with the Eastern Region Ministry Course. The course included academic studies in Theology, Ministry and Mission as well as practical experience within different church traditions and hospital chaplaincy. I now look forward to continuing my training with Rev Caren for the next 3 years and it has been lovely to open the church doors once more and gather together for our worship - even if it is with face masks, hand gel and 2 metre distancing. It has been nice to meet people in person rather than on Zoom and meet others for the first time.
Every Blessing, Carrie
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Bike `n Hike
12th September 2020 - 9am to 5pm A very different Bike `n Hike but you can still have enjoy visiting over 600 churches and chapels to raise much needed funds for your local church and help save other churches in Beds and Herts. For more information please contact: http://www.b-n-h.co.uk/
https://bedshertshct.org.uk/Bike-n-Hike
your local organiser, Linda Dawes 01462816074
Churches will not be open but you can still plan your route visiting as many as you can. Have fun .
Clifton WI The WI committee hope that all its members are keeping well and managing to get out and about a little more now that lockdown is easing. Unfortunately we cannot resume our meetings yet but will review the situation in January 2021 and advise you when we have definite plans.
Take care everyone. Suzanne, 850181
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All Saints Clifton—Bell ringing returns!
On 2nd August, limited services resumed at All Saints Church, Clifton and to celebrate this, we were pleased to be able to ring some of the bells. Ringing takes place in a small room with limited air flow and in order to meet the current guidelines, this meant that we could only ring a few of the bells and for a limited time. After measuring the distances between the ropes we ascertained that bells 3 and 4 were over 2 m from 6,7 and 8. So, using groups from two households, we had a way forward. We are also limited to 15 minutes of ringing and each person must ring the same bells during that session. On 2nd August we rang 3,4,6 and 8 with 2 households, each of 2 people. We plan to ring for all services going forward, so if you hear the bells and think they sound different, you are quite correct. Because of the social distancing and Covid guidelines, we are not allowed to hold practices yet or teach and it may be some time before we can.
Philippa Whittington, Tower Captain
Dedication of Peal Board September 2018
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PETER H WRIGHT
&SON (Plumbing & Heating Limited)
Gas, Oil, Solid Fuel
&
Solar Installations
‘Glenmore’, New Road, Clifton
Tel: 01462 814623
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07950 717555
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Clifton Village Neighbourhood Plan We are currently working on the Business Section of your Clifton Neighbourhood Plan and need your help. Everything in a Neighbourhood Plan must be evidence based in order to show that we are addressing the needs of the village rather than dreaming up inappropriate ideas of our own!
Part of the information we need is to establish how many businesses there are in Clifton and, whilst we can get this information from a number of different sources, it is all to easy to miss some. So if you are running any kind of business, no matter how large of small, whether it is your own or you are running a franchise, (Avon or Tupperware for example), please get in touch.
No business will be identified in our Plan – we just need to know the numbers and types. It doesn’t matter if the business is one person working part time from their back bedroom or something a bit larger. The more information we have the easier it will be to find ways of supporting everyone – particularly small start-ups.
You can get in touch via our web-site or email [email protected]
Some other sections of your Plan have reached their final draft stage and are available to view on our web-site. We are continuing to invite you to make constructive comments.
Many thanks to those who have taken the time to take a look at the draft plan and, of course, let us know what they thought! In response to comments we are adding a summary of each section to make it quicker and easier to see what we are proposing. As sections are completed they will be added until the whole plan is finalised.
You can find them all at https://www.cliftonvillageplan.com/more-info-2
Please bear in mind the parts of the Plan we are publishing now are draft versions and will most certainly be amended many times before submission. If you wish to make a suggestion, please do so via our email address https://www.cliftonvillageplan.com/ . Comments made on social media will not be considered.
For information and updates please take a look at our website - www.cliftonvillageplan.com and also our Facebook page “Clifton Village Neighbourhood Plan” - or you can call us on 07711 687456.
More next month and once again a big thank you” from your Neighbourhood Plan Team!
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CLIFTON PETANQUE CLUB
Some residents are hoping to start a new club playing the traditional French game of
Boules on 2/3 lanes in the centre of the village.
This game is becoming increasingly popular and is already
played in most of the surrounding villages; it is easy to learn/play and only requires a set of 3 metal balls to join in.
The proposed annual membership will only be £15.00
with no further charges when you play. A membership of 15/20 would be ideal.
The building of the lanes will hopefully be
sourced from village project money and will add another facility to our residents’
activities.
If you are interested please call Tony Hyde on 504335
GOLDEN LION GOLF SOCIETY Our August competition was at Brampton Park GC. A testing course which was reflected in the modest scoring. Our winners were:
1st with 32 pts OCB Brian Sapsed
2nd
with 32 pts OCB John Cocksedge
3rd
with 32 pts OCB John Wall
Nearest the Pin and Longest Drive were not contested due to the Coronavirus playing regulations.
If you are interested in joining us, please contact: Harvey Price on 01462 812781 or
John Wall on 01462 814097.
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CLIFTON CARE
SCHEME TIME TO REFLECT What a community we have here in Clifton. During the worse stages of the coronavirus pandemic and as the pressure began to ease a small army of wonderful volunteers emerged. Collecting and delivering prescriptions, taking food orders and shopping, being good neighbours, befriending folk over the telephone. And just being there for those in the village who were finding life extremely difficult particularly during the lockdown. The Care Scheme would like to say a massive thank you to all those volunteers who have helped and supported the local community during these very trying times. We are planning to offer transport again from 1st October. But this will depend on drivers being willing to follow the advice about sanitising vehicles and that the activity is permitted under official requirements. Sadly we are not able to say when we can start the Wednesday afternoon "Tea & Chat" sessions again. We will be keeping this under constant review. And you may rest assured that as soon as we allowed to run these sessions we will do so as soon as practicably possible. Remember we are here to help if we can. Just call and ask ......
……07817 614654
Stay safe and well
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12—20 September Off-road (tracks/grass), Clifton Bury Farm
• Pick a date / time to suit yourself
• 3k or 5k routes marked out
• Run or walk
• Record your own time
• Win a medal
• Support All Saints Academy & All Saints
Church
• Entry by donation (Suggested £10 adult, £5 child,
£25 family)
• Like us on Facebook
• Tell us when you’ve done the run/walk on FB
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Lots of people have been running or walking down the paths on Clifton Bury Farm during the Lockdown. This is an opportunity to keep doing what you have been doing, have a bit of fun and support our local school and church. You can run at a time to suit yourself, you can even have as many goes to get a time you are happy with! • Keep your distance from other people on the paths
and tracks
• Remember this is a working farm, make way for farm vehicles and keep to the designated paths
• Take care of your own wellbeing
The forms and route maps available on the Clifton
website: www.clifton-beds.co.uk
Email: [email protected]
Enter your time, details and donate via the Entry form when you have done the run. Times will be published on website, Facebook and Clifton Chronicles.
£ All Saints Church will use funds raised towards the internal redecoration planned in 2021-22
£ All Saints Academy funds for *SEND resources
Courtesy of Clifton Bury Farm
Keep fit, Stay active, Beat Coronavirus
*SEND means Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
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Clifton Residents’ Association
Clifton Scarecrow Festival
Scarecrow Head-quarters:
Ashington Court (opposite Clifton Cuisine)
To buy your programmes, £3.00
and vote for your favourite scarecrow!
19th & 20th
September
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Changing Seasons
Autumn is early this year. I’m not ready, shivering in my summer wear, but nature is prepared.
Gardens are bright with autumn flowering Red Hot Pokers, Golden Rod, Purple Loosestrife and Devil’s Bit Scabious yielding pollen and nectar to hungry bees and hoverflies.
Evening Primroses feed night-flying moths, and if left to seed will bring close views of feeding Goldfinches all through autumn and beyond.
Autumn Hawkbit, a weed of lawn, path and road verge, resembles a dainty dandelion, and sustains the minutest of bees and flies.
Sun-ripened apples wind-blown early fall from the trees and nourish the wasps that nested underground below the raspberries.
Garden birds return from their summer sojourn in the countryside. Family groups initiate their young in mastering the techniques of extracting seeds from squirrel-proof feeders, that need to be topped up regularly again.
Summer migrants feed up ready for long flights to warmer winter quarters.
Rowan berries are ripe and ready for our blackbirds to devour well before the migrant winter thrushes arrive.
Home-grown garden harvests taste sweet, but early autumn storms disrupt the farmers’ harvest bounty. Trusting that there will be enough for all this winter.
Betty Cooke Who provided all the photographs
Hornet hoverfly on scabious
Homegrown harvest
Ivy bee on golden rod
Red-hot pokers
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Clifton Planning Applications Update Central Beds Decisions to 9th August 2020
CB/02558/FULL – 31 July 2020 – 116 Shefford Road SG17 5RF. Single storey rear extension and ancillary development. Consultation Period
CB/20/02593/DCP – 31 July 2020 – 47 Broad Street SG17 5RJ. Lawful development certificate proposed rear porch. Application Registered
CB/20.02436/YOC – Clifton Farm SG17 5EX. Variation to Condition 13. Consultation Period
CB/20/02345/DOC – 15 July 2020 – The Grange SG17 5EW. Discharge of Conditions 2, 3, & 10. Application Registered
CB/20/02402/DOC – 15 July 2020 – Clifton Farm SG17 5EZ. Discharge of Condition 5. Application Registered
CB/20/023337/DOC – 10 July 2020 – Clifton Farm SG17 5EX. Discharge of Condition 1. Application Registered
CB/20/202319/FULL – 9 July 2020 – 25 New Road SG17 5JH. Rear first floor extension and side covered area and window changes to ground floor. Consultation Period
CB//20/02238/VOC – 6 July 2020 – 22 Grange Street SG17 5EW. Variation to Condition 3. Awaiting Decision
CB/20/02150FULL – 30 June 2020 – 4 Knolls Way SG17 5QU. Erection of timber panel fence 0.5m in from site boundary along Maple Close. Awaiting Decision
CB/20/01766/FULL – 16 June 2020 – Land off Pedley Lane SG17 5EN. Resubmission of planning permission CB/18/04720/FULL, Construction of 42 dwellings. Awaiting Decision
CB/20/01927/NMA – 12 June 2020 – Land adjacent to 35 Hitchin Lane SG17 5RS. Non-material minor amendment. Application Registered
CB/20/01762/NMA – 2 June 2020 – Land adjacent to 34 Hitchin Lane. Proposals to make a safer and attractive landscape. Application Registered
CB/20/01714/DOC – 28 May 2020 - Clifton Farm SG17 5EX. Discharge of Conditions 2 & 6. Discharge of Condition Decision Released
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CB/20/01603/DOC – 20 May 2020 – Clifton Farm SG17 5EX. Discharge of Conditions 6 and 10. Discharge of Condition Decision Released
CB/20/01591/DOC – 19 May 2020 – 35 Hitchin Lane SG17 5RS. Discharge of Conditions 1 – 5. Application Registered
CB/20/01604/DOC – 19 May 2020 – Clifton Farm SG17 5EX. Discharge of Condition 3. Application Registered
CB/20/201462&3/DOC – 6&5 May 2020 - ~The Grange SG17 5EW. Discharge of Condition 2 to Planning Permission CB/17/01630/FULL (Two storey and single storey extension to the house repair of barn store wall and conversion of space for inclusion in annexe repair of collapsed roof to open barn/outbuilding). Discharge of Condition of Condition 3 from planning permission CB/17/01631/LB (Listed Building, two storey and single storey extension to the house repair of barn store wall and conversion of space for inclusion of annexe repair of collapsed roof to open barn/outbuilding). Application Registered
CB/20/00350/DOC – 4 Feb 2020 – Land adjacent to 34, Hitchin Lane. Discharge of conditions 2, 3, 4 and 5 against planning permission. Application Registered
CB/18/04067/FULL – 2 November 2018 – Land south of Fairground Way SG17 5JN. Proposed 20 new dwellings. Awaiting Decision
CB/18/01518/OUT – 8 May 2018 – Land off New Road SG17 5JH. Proposed 25 dwellings. Awaiting Decision
Bob Smith, Clifton Residents’ Association
Warden Abbey Vineyard
Open Day 13th September
Postponed to 2021
It is with great regret that we have taken the difficult decision to postpone this event until September 2021
in view of the ongoing Covid-19 situation.
BUT SAVE THE DATE: Christmas Wine Sale—6th Dec 2020.
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This book is the result of a project looking at changes to the county’s wildlife habitats since the BNHS publication Wild Bedfordshire in 2000.
Site photographs are featured along with images of some of the species to be found in the key habitats. Richard Revels FRPS has revisited and photographed habitats and sites featured in the earlier work, as well as many additional sites, and a rich selection feature in this book.
The authors are Richard Revels, Graham Bellamy and Chris Boon. John Comont has contributed an introductory chapter on change in Bedfordshire in the last 20 years.
For an order form and to find more information visit the BNHS site:
https://www.bnhs.co.uk/2019/pub/Wild_Beds_orderform.pdf
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AEROBICS CLASSES
Mondays and Thursdays at 7.30pm
Clifton Community Centre £5 adults & £3 teens
No need to book – just come along.
Everyone is welcome!
Fitness Pilates and Seated Pi-lates
Exercise classes are also avail-able
For more info contact Tessa on 07787 970810
www.getfitwithtessa.com
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JW BAXTER High class family butcher 01462 812263
Free range Pork
English Beef, Lamb, Poultry & Game
Award winning Sausages
Large range of Meats & Packs, both for BBQs & Freezing
Home made Pies, Fruit Pies & Cakes
Fresh local seasonal Vegetables
A carefully selected range of Cheeses, Cooked Meats, Preserves & Pate
Local Deliveries available
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Chiropodist
Graeme Harley M.S.S.CH M.B.CH.A
Home Visits
H.P.C. Registered
No. CH23479
15 New Street
Shefford
Tel: 01462 630356
Mob: 0773 910 1396
COMER CONSTRUCTION SERVICES
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EXTENSIONS AND NEW BUILDS
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Crime Statistics for JULY 2020
CAUSING INTENTIONAL HARASSMENT, ALARM OR DISTRESS 06/07/2020 Broad Street 20/07/2020 Church Street
BURGLARY – RESIDENTIAL DWELLING 08/07/2020 Bilberry Road
HARRASSMENT – WITHOUT VIOLENCE (course of conduct) 08/07/2020 Undisclosed
EC 4 POA FEAR OR PROVOCATION OF VIOLENCE 09/07/2020 Newis Crescent 17/07/2020 Clifton Fields 26/07/2020 Broad Street
SENDING LETTERS TO CAUSE DISTRESS OR ANXIETY 11/07/2020 Undisclosed 19/07/2020 Undisclosed
BURGLARY – BUSINESS AND COMMUNITY 13/07/2020 New Road
OTHER CRIMINAL DAMAGE TO A VEHICLE (under £5000) 13/07/2020 Church Street
THEFT FROM A MOTOR VEHICLE 13/07/2020 Church Street
ROBBERY (PERSONAL) (INDICTABLE) 14/07/2020 Bilberry Road 27/07/2020 Church Street
THEFT IN A DWELLING OTHER 18/07/2020 Bilberry Road
SEXUAL 23/07/2020 Undisclosed
ASSAULT WITHOUT INJURY – COMMON ASSAULT AND BATTERY 24/07/2020 Olivier Way
HAVING POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED DRUG 24/07/2020 Brickle Place
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Robert Bloomfield
Robert Bloomfield was born in 1766 at Honington in Suffolk. He did not come from a wealthy background and matters were made worse by the fact that his father died when he was only a year old. Fortunately for him his mother was an educated woman, she kept the village school, and so was able to teach him to read and write.
When he was eleven he became apprentice to a farmer but he was too small and frail for the rigours of farm work, so at the age of fifteen he moved to London, apprenticed to a poor shoemaker. He wrote The Farmer's Boy in a crowded attic in Bell Alley, London, memorising it until he could write it down; it was published in 1800 and made his name. He published four collections of poetry in his easy, unchallenging style - Rural Tales in 1802, News from the Farm in 1804, Wild Flowers in 1806 and The Banks of the Wye in 1811.
It was in 1812 that things went wrong again for him. Price were rising on account of the Napoleonic Wars and two of his publishers went bankrupt, one after the other, meaning that he lost £500, a very considerable sum in those days. He thus decided to move from London, for his health and to lessen his overheads. His apparently odd choice was no move, not back to Suffolk, but to Shefford, hiring a, not insubstantial, house in Northbridge Street (see below) for £15 per annum. Probably the main reason he did not return to Suffolk was to avoid importuning relatives, his brothers, in particular, being wont to tap him for cash; he wrote of his native place: "Honington I have done with and it seems effectually to have done with me". He probably moved to Shefford because two of his friends lived there - Thomas Weston, a draper in the town and Thomas Inskip. Bloomfield's description of his house in Shefford in 1812 seems quite far removed from the middle of the town today: "…every charm of Spring surrounds us…a robin is building in the meadow behind, the nightingale is heard even to the doors, the cuckoo plies his two notes all day, and a colony of frogs their one by twilight".
He published no more books of verse after moving to Shefford though he did write the odd poem like The Man in the Moon, published after his death. His daughter Mary Anne died in 1814, aged just twenty one. In 1815 he published a rather bland little children's story called the History of Little Davy's New Hat, followed by the equally unmemorable The
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History of the Chicken and the Horse and the History of the Boy and the Wasp in 1818. By this time his mental health, never very good, was waning and his physical health matching it, becoming almost blind. He also suffered by his wife's ill-considered spending. He wrote a short play, Hazelwood Hall, published shortly before his death which came at his house in Northbridge Street on 19th August 1823, aged 56. He was buried in Campton churchyard.
Bloomfield’s house, Northbridge Street, Shefford
Memorials in Shefford and Campton.
Taken from the Bedfordshire Archive.
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Providence Baptist Church – Clifton Sunday Services *10.30 a.m. and 6.00 p.m. A warm welcome is assured to all. Communion is held during the 6.00 p.m. service on the 3rd Sunday in the month. *The 10.30 a.m. Sunday morning service will continue to held at the Community Centre, Whiston Crescent, Clifton.
Mondays (term time) Mums & Tots 10 a.m. – 11.30 a.m. at the Church Explorers 5.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. (for Reception to Year 4) at Church
Thursdays (term time) Coffeepot 11.30am - 1pm at the Church
Fridays (term time) Mums & Tots 10 a.m. – 11.30 a.m. at the Church
Website: www.cliftonpbchurch.org.uk Contact: [email protected]
Clifton Community Centre
We are fortunate in Clifton to have a modern, spacious, well-equipped community centre with floodlit parking for 60 cars. For information on the facilities available, and to see just how easy and inexpensive it is to use this hall see:
www.clifton-beds.co.uk/halls for hire/Community Centre
To check availability and make a booking, please contact:
Kerri Kilby 07547 129038 or
Bob Anderson on 07546 239784
Booking forms and conditions of hire can be downloaded from the website.
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ABOUT OUR FRIENDS
St Francis of Assisi, Roman Catholic Church, Shefford
Father Canon Bennie Noonan 813436
Deacon Rev Peter Hyde 711702
Parish Secretary Rose Boulton 811547
Sunday Services
St Francis 9.00 am 5.15 pm
Saturday Service
St Francis 11.00 am
Shefford Methodist Church
Minister: Revd Lorna Valentine 813284
Bookings: Chris & Peter 815069
Sunday Service
9.30 am Worship for all, plus Junior Church, crèche facilities & refreshments afterwards.
Other activities see the notice-board & www.sheffordmethodist.org.uk
Salvation Army, Stotfold
Captain Nicola Brooksbank 01462-731072
Sunday Services: 10.30 am, 6.00 pm
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Alphabetic Index of Advertisers May 2020 Letters indicate the pages on the yellow sheets
Local Businesses support the Chronicles, please support them
PAGE BUSINESS NAME
I1 AG Plumbing Services
E1 Angelina Wells Photography
K3, K4 ASB Property Services
D6 Carrie Molloy
J5, J6 Chris Jones Property Services
I5, I6 Comer Construction
K5, K6 Courtland Services Partnership
J1 D P Building & Plastering
E3, E4 Dynamic Dance School
C2 Foot Healthcare professional
G4 G & S Services
H6 GA Living Spaces Ltd
I2, I4 Graeme Harley Chiropodist
D3 Home Comforts Pet Services
F4 I R Quince, Stoneworks
K1, K2 J Child Plumbing & Gas Engineer
H1, H2 J W Baxter
D1 James Bonfield Carpentry
D5 James Cullip Decorating
E2 Jasper Morrissey Drum Lessons
J3, J4 Julian Biggs Plumbing, Heating, Stoves
H5 Leeds Painting and Decorating
F3 Locksmith
PAGE BUSINESS NAME
B5, B6 Lucas, Huntley & Co
C4 Marc Dellar Gardening
B4 Martin Roe Painting & Decorating
C5 Martyn Jaggard Decorating
F1, F2 Meditation & Photobooth
C1 Nails at Home
E5, E6 Neuve Audio
C6 Neville Funeral Service
I3 Ovenclean
B1 Pam Rogers Music Teacher
C3 Peter H Wright Plumbing & Heating
F6 Pumpernickel Healt Foods
G2 RDG Plumbing & Heating
J2 Sandra Thurgood
A3 Shefford Dental Surgery
D4 SJ Tax Accountant
B2 Stefan Baltruschat
G5, G6 Stephen Hing
F5 Stephen Nott
G1, G3 Tessa Chiswell
D2 The Carpet Cleaner
H3, H4 The Shefford Garage
B3 The White Rooms
A5, A6 WH Peacock Auction
A1, A2 WH Peacock Café
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ASB Property Services (UK) Ltd EST 2004
All building work undertaken
Property Maintenance & refurbishments, Kitchens & Bathrooms
All trades covered, free estimates & advice
Fully insured & references supplied upon request
Friendly and professional service
Office 01462 624152 Mobile 07979 865527 Email [email protected]
Web www.asb24-7.co.uk
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