Saturday 3rd July 2010
Blooming Great Tea Party at the Boating Lake, Southwold for Marie Curie Cancer Care. This tea party will help to provide nursing care and support to terminally ill people in our neighbourhood. For more information, telephone Pam on 0793 941 0182 or e-mail southwoldboatlake@hotmail.co.uk.
Sunday 11th July 2010
Brian Farrington’s ‘Omega Jazzmen’ provide the music at the Pit Stop Café (between the Water Tower and the Golf Club) on Southwold Common. Come along and enjoy good company, with wonderful food and drink, in a ‘family fun day out’ atmosphere. The jazz music starts at 12 noon. See you there. ‘If the flag is flying, the kettle is on!’
Friday 16th July 2010
Southwold Cricket Club presents the return of the Omega Jazzmen to the William Godell Sports Pavilion on Southwold Common. Doors open at 7 pm for a 7.30 pm start. Licensed bar. Tickets at £5 are available from Barbrook Stores, Reydon, the Bookthrift bookshop, Market Place, Southwold or from Keith Pettman on 01502 568878. Limited tickets are also available on the door on the night.
Friday 30th July 2010
The Omega Jazzmen play ‘hot, swinging, exciting jazz’ at the Wissett Plough near Halesworth. 8 pm start.
The Sacred Heart Catholic Church Southwold, and St Edmund King and Martyr Halesworth
Our Grand Summer Fete will be held on Wednesday, 11th August in the grounds of the Church in Wymering Road, Southwold. . . and on the Common.
This year, David Battie of The Antiques Road Show will open the Fete at 12 noon.
Light refreshments will be served in the Hall from 12 noon.
We will have our usual stalls, with the addition this year of a stall selling refurbished tools of every description.
Once again, by popular request, ‘The Crockery Smash’ and other games will be a feature of the afternoon.
Punch and Judy are returning this year and, during the afternoon, there will be music by Mid Life Crisis, a local swing and jazz group.
COME AND ENJOY A GREAT FAMILY DAY.
An Open Day with a difference
The Bentwaters Cold War Museum will be holding a special Open Day on Sunday, 1st August 2010 from 10 am until 4 pm. With something for all ages to enjoy, including:
• Static display of military vehicles and fire engines.
• Trade stands and displays from other local museums.
• Woodbridge Air Training Corps BBQ, refreshment stall and ice-cream van.
• Static display of aircraft.
• Bus tours of the airfield will be running at £2.50 on the day (£2.00 in advance) per person. Your chance to see what was one of the largest United States Air Force (USAF) bases in Europe, and its present-day uses.
• Admission to the airfield will be £5 per adult, all children free (an additional £1 per adult for Museum admission). Admission for Bentwaters Aviation Society Members is free.
• Free parking.
In addition to this special Open Day, the Bentwaters Cold War Museum will be opening its doors throughout 2010 on the dates detailed below.
The Museum has already proved to be a popular attraction for visitors to the Suffolk coastal area, especially for those interested in aviation and military installations previously denied access to the public.
The museum is based in the former USAF hardened command post on the former Bentwaters airbase, which is believed to be the only such building open to the public in the UK and Europe.
Run by volunteers from the Bentwaters Aviation Society, the building is a large bunker made available to the public to view following three years of work to renovate and refurbish after the withdrawal of the USAF in 1993. Further information on the Society can be found at www.bentwaters-as.org.uk and for the Museum at www.bcwm.org.uk.
The main War Operations Room and Battle Cabin have been restored to original condition, including the original decontamination showers and airlocks, allowing members of the public to see these once top-secret, high-security military installations in detail in an eerie atmosphere evoking the Cold War period.
Other rooms within the building have been turned into exhibition rooms, covering the history of RAF Bentwaters from WWII until the base closed in 1993. Included in this are histories of the units that operated from the airfield, particularly the 81st Fighter Wing. Also included is the other airfield which was part of the ‘twin-base’ complex – RAF Woodbridge, again covering the period from WWII until the present day.
Further exhibition rooms feature information on the special operations/rescue squadrons that were based at RAF Woodbridge, and also the ‘aggressor’ squadron based at Bentwaters.
There is plenty of car-parking space and is suitable for all ages, and has the added benefit of being an ideal all-weather visitor attraction.
Full details of the 2010 dates are as follows:
Open dates 2010
July
Sunday 4th, Sunday 18th
August
Sunday 1st (special Open Day), Sunday 15th, Sunday 29th, Monday 30th
September
Sunday 5th, Sunday 19th
October
Sunday 3rd, Sunday 17th
Opening times
10 am–4 pm
Admission prices
Adult: £4.00 – note special Open Day £5.00
Child (14 and under): free
Concessions: £2.00
Blyth Valley Community Radio news
More excitement at Blyth Valley Community Radio – listen out for our new presenters: Neil’s Music on Thursdays, The 60s with Baz and Nick’s 70s and 80s on Saturdays, and Malcolm’s Music Mix on Sundays. Plus, we are opening another studio in Southwold for publicity, training and recording – look out for this one – and we celebrate our first birthday broadcasting on 105.0 FM at the Bunker in St Felix School, Reydon, Southwold on 3rd and 4th July. Do come along and see what goes on!
Finding out more
Contact us at: The Bunker, St Felix School, Halesworth Road, Southwold, Suffolk IP18 6SD, tel: 01502 723900, e-mail: studio@bvcr.co.uk, web: www.blythvalleycommunityradio.co.uk.
July 2010 programme schedule for Blyth Valley Radio on 105.0 FM
Monday
9 am–10.30 am Bill’s Monday Show
10.30 am–12 noon Rod’s Records
12 pm–2.30 pm Sylvie’s Magazine Show, sponsored by Howells and Jolley Chemists (interviews with local people, local history etc)
2.30 pm–3 pm Big Band Show with Muriel
3 pm–5 pm Music with Fox
5 pm–6 pm Classical music with Nicholas Jenkins
Tuesday
9 am–11 am Keith’s Kaleidoscope
11 am–1 pm Listen to the 40s with the Muffin Man
1 pm–3 pm The Tuesday Show with Lee and friends
2.30 pm–3 pm Poetry Plus with Oonagh fortnightly
3 pm–4 pm Jazz music
4 pm–7 pm Steve Moyse Show
Wednesday
9 am–11 am Music with Fox
11 am–12 noon Easy Listening with Mary, sponsored by Jenny Jones Estate Agents
12 pm–1 pm The Wednesday Supplement with Sylvie, sponsored by the Pit Stop Café (local history, interviews etc)
1 pm–4 pm Midweek Country with Bill, sponsored by Graham Finch Motors
4 pm–6 pm Sue’s Sandwich, sponsored by the Red Lion
Thursday
9 am–11.30 am Music with Big Al and Chrissie
11.30 am–1 pm Neil’s Music
1 pm–2.30 pm Music with Twig
2.30 pm–3.30 pm Classical music
3.30 pm–4.30 pm Twig and Dave’s Talking Minds programme
4.30 pm–6 pm Martin’s Music
Friday
9 am–11.30 am Music with Big Al
11.30 am–1 pm Music with Chrissie
1 pm–3.15 pm Music with Twig
3.15 pm–4.30 pm Salsa with Winston and Fiona
4.30 pm–6 pm Music with Martin
Saturday
9 am–11 am The 60s with Baz
11 am–1 pm The 70s and 80s with Nick
1 pm–3 pm Jill’s Music PM
3 pm–5 pm The Weekend Wireless Show with Sam, sponsored by Margary Millar Solicitors
Sunday
10 am–12 noon The Sunday Request Show with Bill, sponsored by Mark Church
12 pm–2 pm Malcom’s Music Mix
2 pm–5 pm Martin’s Music, and Country Music with Big Al from 3 pm–4pm
An opportunity for young singers
The North Suffolk Youth Choir has completed a successful year, which has included taking part in the BBC Children in Need concert in December, a stunning performance at the Norfolk County Music Festival, a contribution to Waveney’s Holocaust Memorial Day celebrations, two concerts at Southwold Methodist Church and a recent appearance at the Aldeburgh Music Festival. Their ability to sing in English, French, Latin, German and African languages has been greatly admired, and their talents are much in demand with invitations to civic events and weddings.
They are holding a Singing Day on Sunday, 5th September from 10.30 am to 3.30 pm. All young singers aged 11 and over are invited for a day of song, vocal tuition and dance movement, led by the choir’s Director of Music, Vetta Wise, and invited guests. Further details will be available by e-mailing secretary@nsyc.co.uk or by calling 01502 722906.
On Saturday, 31st July, the Sole Bay Youth Group is holding a CAR WASH to raise funds for their weekend away at the Horstead Centre in October.
Come and have your car washed, while you enjoy a tea or coffee and a read of the morning papers.
Reydon Vicarage (behind the Randolph 9 am–12 noon).
St Margaret’s Church, Reydon
Patronal Festival Weekend
Saturday, 10th–Sunday, 11th July
Saturday, 10th July
10.30 am–4 pm Church Open Day
Stalls, flowers, children’s activities and refreshments.
Cream Teas 2 pm–4 pm
Xtreme Teddy 2 pm–4 pm
(Bring your teddy/cuddly toy with a parachute and see them fly from the top of the church tower) £1 per jump.
6.30 pm Dragon Feast at the Vicarage.
Sunday, 11th July
8 am Eucharist (BCP)
9.30 am Celebration Eucharist with Archdeacon Judy.
St Margaret’s feast day is 20th July and there will be a quiet service of Midday Prayer at 12 noon in church. Further details from Revd Richard Henderson (01502 722192).
Leiston Film Theatre news
A great night was had by all who enjoyed the appearance of The Cavern Beatles at the Film Theatre on Sunday, 20th June. It really was a fantastic way to bring our spring programme of live entertainment to a close. Our live shows will return in September, when The Wild Oats return to their Leiston roots on Wednesday, 15th September for a one-off special appearance in aid of Leiston Film Theatre Support Club. The Wild Oats were one of the best loved bands in Suffolk and made many successful tours in this country and abroad when Rock ‘n’ Roll was at the height of fame. Tickets are now available from the Film Theatre Box Office, priced £12.50 and £11.50, and also available via our website at www.leistonfilmtheatre.co.uk. Book early to guarantee your seats – you have been warned!
What a July we have in store for film fans, with two huge summer blockbusters showing at the Film Theatre from their UK release dates.
First up is the final big-screen outing for the lovable green ogre in Shrek Forever After (U), which plays from the UK release date of Friday, 2nd July. A bored and domesticated Shrek pacts with deal-maker Rumpelstiltskin to get back to feeling like a real ogre again, but when he’s duped and sent to a twisted version of Far Far Away – where Rumpelstiltskin is King, ogres are hunted, and he and Fiona have never met – he sets out to restore his world and reclaim his true love. Already a major box-office smash in America, it looks set to repeat that success here.
Returning by popular demand, Russell Crowe stars in Robin Hood (12A), which is showing for three days only from Friday, 16th July. This is a highly acclaimed and lavish retelling of the legend of the virtuous rogue, who rises from an unlikely background to become a hero to the impoverished people of Nottingham and lover to the beautiful Lady Marian.
The big film that everyone is waiting for is, of course, Toy Story 3 (U), which we are thrilled to present at the Film Theatre from its UK release date of Monday, 19th July. This has to be the must-see family film of the summer holidays, in which Woody, Buzz and the whole gang return in another very polished Disney Pixar adventure. As their owner Andy prepares to depart for college, his loyal toys find themselves donated to daycare, where untamed tots with their sticky little fingers do not play nice. So, it’s all for one and one for all as they join Barbie’s counterpart Ken, a thespian hedgehog named Mr Pricklepants and a pink, strawberry scented teddy bear called Lots-o’-Huggin’ Bear to plan their great escape. Very highly recommended, with booking essential.
Looking ahead, the big summer blockbusters continue into August and beyond, so we really do have a packed programme up our sleeves, offering the very biggest films plus the exciting arrival of Dolby Digital 3-D at Leiston Film Theatre – the ultimate 3-D experience, with complementary glasses for all 3-D screenings. We also have a smashing bunch of live shows coming up, including Lonnie Donegan Jnr (18th September), Dance Exchange (24th October), Ollie Austin (20th November) and Whole Lotta Led (11th December) – tickets for all these show are now on sale.
For the very latest programme information, please see our advertisement or visit the Film Theatre website at www.leistonfilmtheatre.co.uk.
Wayne Burns
Southwold Library: what’s on this month
Space Hop
Throughout the summer holidays for children of all ages. Complete our out-of-this-world challenge by reading or having six books read to you during July and August. Collect stickers (including smelly ones), posters, bookmarks and spinners. Everyone who finishes receives a medal and certificate.
Meet a local author
28th July at 2 pm. Meet local author A S Cremin and listen to her new picture book, Georgie and his Secret Wish, all about a little boy called Georgie and his farm-animal friends. Farm-animal crafts and colouring, and an opportunity to buy the book.
Book sale
4th July 2 pm–3.30 pm. Fill a bag for £2 (bring your own bag) or fill a cotton bag for £3.
Southwold Library Reading Group
29th July at 6.30 pm: discussing The Pursuit of Happiness by Douglas Kennedy.
Time-out events for older people
Every Tuesday 2 pm–3.30 pm:
• 6th July – Jigsaw Club.
• 13th July – Craft and Chat: bring your unfinished knitting/sewing/craft or start a new project while having a pleasant talk.
• 20th July – Crossword and Jigsaw Club. Come and ask for help with clues or solve new crosswords together. Plus the ongoing jigsaw.
• 27th July – board games and banter.
Every Sunday
• Baby Bounce and Tot Rock 10.30 am–11 am. Music, rhymes, singing and dancing for babies and toddlers.
• Storytime 11.30 am–12.15 pm. Stories, crafts and colouring for seven year olds and under.
• Children’s Fun Group 12.15 pm–1 pm. Crafts, games, puzzles and fun for seven to twelve year olds.
• Internet lessons 1 pm–3.30 pm. Open to anyone. Come and have one-to-one training on any aspect of the Internet, from complete beginner to those who want to know about a particular website or e-mail. Half an hour at a time, but as many lessons as you would like. To book a slot, ring 01502 722519.
Charlotte Clark, Library Manager, Southwold Library
New director to conduct Britten-Pears Chamber Choir concert at Blythburgh Church
Ipswich-based Ben Parry, recently appointed Musical Director of the Britten-Pears Chamber Choir, will conduct ‘Summer Voices’, the Choir's 4th July concert in Holy Trinity Church, Blythburgh.
Ben is Director of Junior Academy at the Royal Academy of Music. He also works with young musicians as a Director of the Eton Choral Courses and is Co-Director of the professional choir London Voices. He worked with Sir Paul McCartney on his classic choral work ‘Ecce Cor Meum’, has conducted the soundtracks of major films, including The Golden Compass, Kung Fu Panda and Inkheart, and has made over 50 CD recordings. As a singer, he has worked with Taverner Consort, Gabrieli Consort and Tenebrae, and was a singer and Music Director with The Swingle Singers.
The Blythburgh concert will include choral music by Vaughan Williams, Debussy, Holst and Moeran. The summer theme will continue during the interval, when the audience will be served strawberries and sparkling wine, all included in the price of the ticket.
The concert will begin at 2.30 pm.
Tickets, £10 (unreserved), are available from Aldeburgh Music Box Office: 01728 687110.
Halesworth is making a smooth-ie transition to pedal power
Come to the Thoroughfare between 10 am and 1 pm on Saturday, 10th July and you’ll be a smooth operator, mixing your own smoothie fruit drink while riding a bike (in complete safety). And you can help make up cycle repair kits that will mean you and other cyclists can cycle worry-free in and around the town. Look out for other magical pedal-power and natural energy gizmos as well.
Also bring with you any spare bicycle tools that you can donate such as part-used puncture kits, tyre levers, spoons, spanners, spare inner tubes. We will be putting together cycle aid boxes on the spot. These will be placed in pubs, homes and other places in and around the town and further afield in Suffolk. Each location will have a sign to advertise the box and appear on an internet map. The ‘boxes’ are carpet roll centres and recycled postal tubes – so if you’ve got any of those, bring them with you too. To find out more about cycle aid and if you’d like to host a box or nominate a place to have one, go to www.surveymonkey.com/s/P6GDKQJ.
The cycle aid kits are the brainchild of Nat Bocking and the Town Plan Cycling Group who have also put together a 20-mile circular cycling route, the ‘Halesworth Wheel’. You can find the map of the Wheel on the web at tinyurl.com/halesworthwheel.
Event organisers Halesworth in Transition (HinT) are part of a widespread and growing grassroots movement of people who are taking a positive attitude to preparing for the impacts of climate change and peak oil (‘peak oil’ is when cheap and easy-to-get oil runs out). Cycling is a practical, cheap, healthy and non-polluting alternative to generating power by using oil. The smoothie-maker is just one way of having fun while getting fit, saving money and protecting the environment.
Many towns are already part of the international Transition movement. Locally, this includes Bungay, Beccles, Framlingham, Woodbridge, Norwich, and Ipswich. HinT is not affiliated to any political party and is a non-profit-making community association run entirely by volunteers.
For more information about this event and other activities, phone 01986 875323 or e-mail hint@talktalk.net.
The 22nd Southwold Model Railway Exhibition
Saturday, 7th and Sunday, 8th August 2010
St Felix School, Halesworth Road (A1095) IP18 6SD
From toy trains to finescale modelling!
This is our tenth year at St Felix School, a superb venue with free car parking in the grounds. When we first viewed the property in the Millennium year, the hall looked enormous and we wondered if we could ever fill the space! We had formerly held a small exhibition in an upstairs room at the Southwold Pier and we never expected to grow so rapidly into the widely acclaimed and well-supported event that it has become.
This family exhibition has something for all ages, and all levels of modelling skills and experience. Eighteen layouts, in various scales and gauges, have been invited, representing periods from pre-grouping to the present day. Layouts include Hassell Harbour Bridge, Thornbury Hill, Foxup, Loughborough Midland, BallyConnell Road and Berrybridge. Full trade support, including garden railways, ready-to-run models, kits, paints and modelling materials. Modelling demonstrations (including DEMU, DCC Clinic and Roy Hickman – scenic modelling). Children’s drive a model train layout and Thomas and Friends zip pulls on sale for the National Autistic Society. Watch the gauge 1 live steam trains in the marquee whilst enjoying a refreshment break! Passenger-carrying live steam train and traction engine rides – in the grounds. Our charity raffle this year supports local First Responders and the East Anglian Air Ambulance.
BBC regional radio presenter and former career railwayman Richard Spendlove will be our special guest on Sunday – his Saturday evening programmes reach as far as Kent in the south, Northamptonshire in the west and Lincolnshire in the north!
Large FREE car park, wheelchair access to halls. Light refreshments.
Saturday 10 am–5 pm, Sunday 10 am–4.30 pm.
Adults: £5.00, children: £3.00, seniors: £4.00.
Website: www.waveneyvalleymrc.150m.com.
Jerry Hepworth, Publicity and Public Relations Officer, Waveney Valley Model Railway Club
Southwold Museum and Historical Society
Summer Lecture season 2010
The lectures are at 7.30 pm in the Methodist Hall, East Green, Southwold. They are open to members and visitors alike; all are welcome. The tickets are £3.00, payable at the door.
Tuesday, 3rd August – ‘A Picture History of Margaret Catchpole’. 
We are delighted to welcome back a favourite speaker when Pip Wright joins us to talk about Margaret Catchpole, a well-known Suffolk heroine – if that is the correct word to use. He will show a set of 33 watercolours painted by the Reverend Richard Cobbold, Rector of Wortham, for his three-volume edition of The History of Margaret Catchpole, a Suffolk Girl published in 1845. The pictures, which were lost to public view for over a century, bring to life Margaret’s colourful story in Suffolk in the early years of the 19th century. Pip has condensed the Reverend’s text to allow the story to be told through the pictures, and copies of this and other books by him will be available for sale at the talk.
Tuesday, 10th August – ‘The Southwold Railway’. The well-known double act of David Lee ably assisted by anecdotes and comic stories from John Bennett will present their illustrated history of the Southwold Railway, which ran for 50 years from 1879 to 1929 between Halesworth and Southwold. David Lee, a member of our Society for many years, is involved in plans to construct ‘Blyth’, the Sharp Stewart No 3 2–4–0 locomotive that was delivered in 1879 and ran on the line for nearly 50 years.
Tuesday, 17th August. Last year, we had a mystery speaker; this year, we have a mystery subject. The lecture will be given by Alan Greening, a member of the Society, who is a conservationist architect. His talk will be illustrated and the subject is to be a surprise on the night.
Tuesday, 24th August – ‘Lowestoft Porcelain’. For the fourth of the 2010 series of Summer Lectures, the Society welcomes expert valuer and auctioneer Mr Russell Sprake. His talk will be on the subject of Lowestoft Porcelain, which was made in the town between 1757 and the turn of the next century. It will take in the history of the factory, some of the people involved, such as its founding partners and chief decorators, and the styles and patterns of the china. There will be a slide presentation, mostly of blue and white china, and Mr Sprake has said that he will be happy to take questions afterwards, and if people would like to bring along pieces of Lowestoft (or possibly Lowestoft) china for appraisal, that would add to the interest of the occasion.
The Southwold Museum and Historical Society is a thriving society with approximately 380 members. If you would like to join or for any further information, please contact Hilary Huckstep on 01502 724840.
The Museum Office is now open for business and we welcome items of local interest for the collection – please telephone 01502 726097 (answerphone available) or contact us via the Museum website at www.southwoldmuseum.org.
Hilary Huckstep
Your books can save lives
Residents in Southwold and its surrounding villages are being asked to donate books for an RNLI book sale to be held in the William Godell Sports Pavilion, the Common, Southwold on Saturday and Sunday, 14th and 15th August. The Southwold and Dunwich RNLI Fundraising Committee is also asking for CDs/DVDs, old postcards/comics and folding maps.
All items will be collected by 6th August. Please contact – Southwold: Stephen (01502 722776); Reydon: Geoff (01502 724608), Jackie (01502 723380); Blythburgh, Wangford, Westleton and Wrentham: 01502 478521.
The sale will be open from 9.30 am to 4 pm. Admission is 50p, children free. There is ample parking, disabled facilities, a licensed bar and cafeteria. All proceeds go to the RNLI.
