BRIDGE PARlSH COUNCIL UNOFFICIAL INCOME & EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR TO 31 MARCH 2023 YE 31.3.2023 { YE 31.3.2022 | INCOME Precept (via Council Tax) 34.000 34,000 OCC ‘Concurrent Function Funding‘ for Revenue Expenditure 2,703 2, 703 Other Grants excluding those re works not done yet Bus Shelter opposite Higham Lane 5,625 Neighbourhood Plan / L V/A Grant (nearly = costs be/ow) - 5,200 Total income from Precept and Grants 42,328 41,903 Other Income Recreation Ground and Pavilion Hire 2,367 2468 Interest 163 11 Christmas Trees & their lighting [Note Specific costs below] 1,658 1, 725 Anonymous donation re thermal camera — 635 Total Other income 4,188 4, 839 TOTAL INCOME 46,516 _ 46, 742 EXPENDITURE Administration Clerk's Salary & Office Allowance 11,313 9, 787 Councillors‘ Round Sum Allowances 1,200 1,050 Internal and External Auditors 420 520 Insurance 2,140 2,056 Subscriptions 756 774 Telephone and Broadband 87 520 Plans and Printing 185 165 Sundry Other costs 700 462 Total 16,801 15, 334 Recreation Ground & Pavilion Playground equipment -- 18,698 Maintenance, Electricity, Water, Safety inspection 6,059 9,734 Management Fee — Vlficker Consulting 287 1,082 Rent 550 550 Legal re Recreation Ground Lease — 625 Total - (Note income above £2,367) 6,896 30,689 Green Court Fencing etc 1,070 861 Ford Close Fencing etc 2,245 Higham Lane Bus shelter (Note Grant above) 5,145 -—~ Total 8,460 861 Other Neighbourhood Plan / LVIA (PY Note Grant above) 19 5243 Election Expenses -- 232 Queens Platinum Jubilee Celebrations 661 --~ Christmas Trees, lights etc (Note income of £1,658) 1,757 1, 747 Defibrillator 1,311 Laptop for clerk 425 Plants etc for Gardeners 302 942 Work on 'Build—outs‘ on main road 290 250 Handihoop for litter pickers 74 Hi-vis waistcoats - 98 Notice boards - 1, 870 Legal re return of Mill Centre Lease - 1,020 Thermal imaging camera (See Anonymous donation above) — 635 Grants - Patrixbourne Churchyard 200 200 - Bridge Red Lions F0 231 ~- Total ‘Other Expenditure 5,270 12,237 TOTAL EXPENDITURE 37,427 59,121 EXCESS OF INCOME OVER EXPENDITURE {PY Excess ofExpenditure over Income) “Tam? 42,379 FUNDS REPRESENTED BY NET CURRENT ASSETS ONLY AT START OF YEAR 93,506 105,885 AT END OF YEAR 102,595 93, 506 NET CURRENT ASSETS 31.3.23 31.3.22 Cash at Bank (inc Petty Cash in Hand) 105,334 99,412 Debtors and Prepayments VAT refundable 481 3,817 Other 1,111 760 106,926 103, 989 Less: Creditors and Accruals Sundry -1,831 2, 358 Grant re Higham Lane replacement bus shelter not yet spent (completed Apr 2022) - -5, 625 Grant re speed indicators not yet bought -2,500 -2, 500 NET TOTAL REPRESENTING FUNDS ABOVE (EXCLUDES FIXED ASSETS) 102,595 93, 506 EARMARKED RESERVES DECLARED TO AUDITORS ON CASH BASIS Cash basis I a E basis .ash ma /8. Ebasis 315.23 31.3.23 31.3.22 31.3.22 Re Recreation Ground - Lease expiring in 2023 to be renewed or received 70,000 70,000 60,000 60,000 as gift (currently in negotiation) with costs re new Village Hall etc Playground Equipment 7,000 7,000 7,000 7,000 Recreation Ground Footbridge 13,990 13,000 13,030 13_ooo May Elections 500 500 Higham Lane Bus shelter 5,625 ,»,,c above King's Coronation I Queen's Platinum Jubilee 2,099 2,000 2,00,; 2,000 97,500 97,500 92,625 87, 000 El_I_r_I2s_I_1gt_§_-'ar1I_13r_lonyngham Lane ID 3 5:’ I ' CAR I: I l ¢ PARK m I Union Road 8 2; I I n. A Processionf Village Hall I F°"“ "9 Exhibition I The S _ Senior Citizens School trawbemes ¢ Teaparty E Greencourt : I (D _. ._4_. _ Children's Party V I I I Stalls . 0 and Games 5 9- I \ w t A ‘cat 3 4. es ern ve _f ‘ § 3 I Children's Stalls son - 0 Attractions Dflnks to I I n: I E 6-‘: I I ¢ footpath I f I I Dancers ‘°”°‘5 Th I Band 9 Splash I I Majorettes irb \ _ I I The Bridge t 'I t :\’\’\/\’\’\’\/\/x/\/\ I __ __ _’ __0I::___ I I Information Centre Brewery Lane Patrixbourne Road The Church Look out for J I other stalls and Boume park attractions at various points along the High Street. Thursday 9"‘ November 2017 Jeudi 9 Novembre 2017 Happy 90"’ Birthday, Dr Ann Shirley Ban Anniversaire Ann Starters leek and Cauliflower Soup, with toasted bread (v) Creamy garlic mushrooms, with toasted bread (V) Deep-fried Breaded Goat Cheese, with cranberry sauce I{v) Marinated Gravadlax, in a whisky and dill and mustard vinaigrette Mains-Courses Chicken Supreme with a creamy mushroom sauce, mash potatoes and seasonal vegetables Fillet of Pork with a creamy grain mustard sauce, mash potatoes and vegetables Beef and Mushroom Sitroganoff with basmati rice Grilled Sausages with red wine and onionjus, mashed potato and seasonal vegetables Traditional Fish Pie with seasonal vegetables CHRISTINGLE CELEBRATIONW St ‘Peter’: €Bric(ge Cflrishnas £ve, 2006 4}am Today's collection is in aid of The Children's Society. © Words reproduced under CCLI No 509548 Forthcoming Events SPRING COFFEE MORNING Saturday 29*“ March |O- l 2 noon at Bridge Church KENT POLICE BAND CONCERT Saturday 26"‘ April at 7pm at Bridge School Hall BEKESBOURNE ROGATION SUNDAY WALK Sunday 27th April atl0.00am at Bekesbourne VH if you would like your church notice here please e-mail the parish office to:- VI ara e brid e hurch.co.u|_< “iF'liilE $lElEW/IJCCE WHERE THE VICAR GOES [3] W The vssrrzv CHooSm6 oU‘|'FlT5 [:7 rkuccsswcr AROUND A 81'!” érmwcv to THE VICARAGE T0 Rctaievs W51’ seizmcw E IN THE PULPIT [E] SHARING Tris PEA€E wrruAu AN» SVNDRY AT 114: ALTAR; oFFERlNG {oMMUNl0N ‘TO THE INFIRM HEADIHG AWAY FROM THE CHURCH HALL, E E wllEl2.E -;uFr~'EE LS «—.a,_________~___,_ Bsme SERVED This CartoonChurch.com cartoon originally appeared in the Church Times and is taken from ‘The Dave Walker Guide to the Church’, published by Canterbury Press. The Bridge Group of Churches Tel: 01227 830250 e~mol|: vicor@bridgechurch.co.ul< Pew sheet for l6“‘ March 2008 e N W “a. ~ 3 P I s d *5 I5 i‘ am un ay % f\r\ xxxmw 3», 6’ TODAY’S SERVICES °"=-°-*‘°“ 8.00am BCP Communion Patrixbourne The Vicar 9.30am Holy Communion Bekesbourne The Vicar 9.30am Sung Eucharist Bridge Canon G Manley 9.30am Family Service Lower Hardes Mrs M Clarke Collect Almighty and everlasting God, who in your tender love towards the human race sent your Son our Saviour Jesus Christ to take upon him our flesh and to suffer death upon the cross: grant that we may follow the example of his patience and humility, and also be made partakers of his resurrection; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen POST COMMUNION PRAYER Lord Jesus Christ, you humbled yourself in taking the form of a servant, and in obedience died on the cross for our salvation: give us the mind to follow you and to proclaim you as Lord and King, to the glory of God the Father. Amen THE HT READING Philippians 2. 5.1: Let the same mind he in you that was in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness. And being found in human form, he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death - even death on a cross. Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. THE GOSPEL Matthew 2!. l-I I When they had come near Jerusalem and had reached Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples, saying to them, ‘Go into the village ahead of you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her; untie them and bring them to me. If anyone says anything to you, just say this, “The Lord needs them.” And he will send them immediately.’ This took place to fulfil what had been spoken through the prophet, saying, ‘Tell the daughter of Zion, Look, your king is coming to you, humble, and mounted on a donkey, and on a colt, the foal of a donkey.’ The disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them; they brought the donkey and the colt, and put their cloaks on them, and he sat on them. A very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road, and others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. The crowds that went ahead of him and that followed were shouting, ‘Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest heaven!‘ When he entered Jerusalem, the whole city was in turmoil, asking, ‘Who is this?’ The crowds were saying, ‘This is the prophet Jesus from Nazareth in Galilee.’ FOR OUR PRAYERS Pat, Vivienne, Daisy, Muriel, Felix Stott, Olivia Palmer, Jamie Palmer, Edith Marsh, Mark Woodcock and Edward Coombs. NEXT WEEK’S SERVICES 23rd March (Easter Sunday) 8.00am BCP Communion Patrixbourne The Vicar 9.30am Holy Communion Bekesbourne Bishop Stephen 9.30am Holy Communion Nackington Canon G Manley l l.O0am Family Communion Bridge The Vicar l |.00am Family Communion Lower Hardes Canon H Harland BCP Book of Common Prayer (Traditional language). Family Service a service of prayers, hymns and a talk. THIS WEEKS DIARY Holy Week Monday 7.30pm Compline - Bekesbourne Tuesday 7.30pm Compline - Patrixbourne Wednesday 7.30pm Compline - Lower Hardres Maundy Thursday 7.30pm Eucharist and Stripping the Altar - Bridge Good Friday 7.30pm Compline with Good Friday Reflection - Nackington Mid Week Communion will not take place during Holy Week at Bridge due to building works. The Vicar will be having his ‘Day Off’ on a Friday each week. Please try not to disturb him unless absolutely necessary, but leave a message on the answer phone which will be responded to as soon as possible. Please note the change of day. Correction - Readings in Church The readings for each Sunday in the Parish Magazine for March are incorrect, if you are due to read a lesson in church, please check with a church warden for the correct reading. 41 Bridge Down Bridge CT4 SBA 29 February 2016 Dear Laurie, Only on Saturday itself did I learn of the imminent closure of your shop. May I say that I have spent many a happy minute perusing and purchasing, and very much regret any further opportunity passing, though nothing and nobody goes on for ever. It is the end of an era, as far as the village is concerned. In that awareness, as informal custodian of the village archive (now of impressive dimensions) I’d very much like to know if you have any documentation about the shop and the business, or any artifacts which you would care to have preserved as part of the history of the village. I no longer remember, for instance, when it was that you took over from Bernard Welch, though I do remember that when we first came to Bridge in 1970 he still used the traditional sawdust on the floor. Any particular recollections of your time would also be especially welcome. The demise of the rival establishment (?when) over the road occurred without record, though I believe that some of the fittings still remain in the house. I’m sure Dorothy joins me in wishing you a long and happy retirement. She was especially pleased to meet your daughter once more, having taken an interest in her career ever since leaving school. Yours sincerely, Maurice Raraty Bridge Archivist . - ' ' ? K ‘—‘1510 https://btma11.bt.com/op/applmk/ma11/LoadMessaEeP"mt C 93’ From: vyebridgel@btinternet.com Sent date: 13/11/2017 ' 15113 , _ . - .h Il.b d @ mail-Com. afbarber@uk2.net, sr.arw52@gmail.com, dgilmour@freeuk.com, ‘Jean 1 r1 ge g . - - _ . k joy.bridger@gmai|.com, ]andrcardy@gma1I.com, ]ohn@blackvanilla org_u . _ t 1. m mmraraty@btinternet.com, meriel_connor@bt1nternet.com, richros@h0 mal C0 subject: FW: 84 Bridge High Street (The Saddlers) Attachments: Saddlery for Tim 1907.jpg 390.7 KB T0! This is a valuable addition to our archives. Hope to see you all on Thursday. Best wishes Jenny From: Wendy Brooks [mailto:wendyjbrooks@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2017 2:26 PM To: info@bridgehistory.org.uk Subject: 84 Bridge High Street (The Saddlers) Hi, My husband Tim and I thought you might be interested to have this photograph. It shows Tim's grandfather, Joshua George Brooks, outside his Saddlery in 1907. We don't know who the other person is. Joshua was born in Uckfield in 1876 and had grown up in Bredhurst, the son of an agricultural labourer. He is listed as the Saddler in a local directory for 1913. Tim's father was born in Bridge that year. Sadly Joshua's wife Emily died in 1910 and Joshua re—married and moved to Surrey between 1914 and 1918. With the demise of the saddlery industry, he became a coach trimmer. Our daughter is studying at University of Kent, Canterbury and on a recent visit to her we dropped a copy of the photo in to the current owner of the house, which is remarkably unchanged. She said that there are various hooks and doors which relate to its time as a saddlery and it retains the name. Kind regards Wendy & Tim Brooks (Lightwater, Surrey) 1°“ 11/13/2017, 4:49 1: R T S R When our dear and late lamented Laurie heard in October that he was suffering from an incurable disease, he wrote out his wishes regarding his funeral on a sheet of recycled A4 paper. A lover of traditional jazz, to which he often listened at the Swingate pub near Dover, he asked for a funeral like those in New Orleans, with a hearse drawn by two black horses, behind which would walk the jazz band and mourners. He died at home, surrounded by members of the family, grandchildren included, at about 9 a.m. on Tuesday 21 January. Not long afterwards, the Vicar conducted a short service, which was very comforting. The weather of the week that followed was cold, grey and dreary ~ most unlike the climate in New Orleans. Cars were even stuck in snowdrifts all ni ht. Meanwhile Mrs. Margaret Clarke, pastoral assistant in the paris of Patrixbourne with Bridge, came and went, instructin us as to the form the church service might take and consulting us :1 out the choice of hymns and other matters. We were thankful to find that the mornin of 2 February dawned cool but clear. Members of the family and c ose friends fol owed the hearse and the Gambit Jazz men up Mill Lane, down Union Road into Dering Road, then up Aunt Betsy's Hill almost at a allo until turning into the High Street; we saw the pavements line wit people. Most of these joined the procession, perha s feeling, like us, that one could not be sad on walking to the music 0 the jazz men and that we were all contributing to give Laurie the send off that he requested and deserved after 32 years as $ubPostmaster and man years of voluntary service for the village and wider community, we I reported in the Kent/‘s/1 Gazette. At Bridge St. Peter's church there was standing room only and the service was conducted, at Laurie's wish, by Mrs. Margaret Clarke, supported by the Vicar. An old friend, Peter Giles, layecl the organ and gave one of three tributes, the others being by a riend from Laurie's youth in Hampshire, Chris Barton, and by Laurie's younger son, Nick. His grand-daughter, Meg, read her heartfelt poem to Grandad, while grandson Scott read a fine passage from the Revelation to St. John. The jazz men had played us into the church with "stranger on the Shore" and with "The 0 d rugged cross". They reformed at the corner of Patrixbourne Road, to follow in the wake of the hearse and horses to St. Mary's Patrixbourne, where Laurie was buried, in the si ht of many many friends and family and to the tune of "Didn't he ramb e?" The "wake" afterwards took place in the Plough and Harrow, and The Red Lion. We have to thank the undertaker, Mr. Farrier of Dover for makin the funeral arrangements, as well as Mrs. Clarke, the Reverend Paul Fi mer, the church wardens and all who took part in the service and helped in other ways. May he rest in peace and rise in glory! JOHN, NICK and ANN SHIRLEY Ens Lgmjence Shirley The whole village has been mourning the passing of a very popular, kind and friendly person. But he has left at least one permanent memorial to the village ~ that is the Pharmacy. Twenty five years ago Laurie discovered that Dr. Russell was encouraging me to open a pharmacy in the village but there were no suitable premises. At his own expense Laurie, during that summer built on an extension to the Post Office. Typically he would not say what it was for and rumours ranged from a fish and chip shop to a book shop! On November 1st 1978 the pharmacy opened and Laurie proved to be an ideal landlord to successive owners. He was motivated by his very deep concern for the welfare of people living in the village and it is a matter of great sadness that he has not lived to see the silver jubilee of his great accomplishment. (3746 at C3/Vie Wednesday March 19th 2003 at 7:00pm Concert Platform for young Musicians at Bridge 6: Patrixbourne School Programme includes Music by JS Bach, Beethoven 6: Mozart, also Modern Composers for Piano: Flute: Clarinet and Violin. Tickets at door on the night £2.50 Grace Goodman “i '_,,/l , l - l‘ em / /C. .1 W~»~_M .m_ ['\’Zcg~¢,/L‘ ‘TL C‘-O 5 IliiRlliilflifiiiflfiliIiiiifiifiibl DATRIXDOIIRIE Wl'l'Il BRIDGE Mt Saturday Bin March Bridge Village Hall 5.00pm DANGER! ;l‘l€l*5 AND also A family evening of food and funl Tickets £4 per person. £10 perfamiiy From Sue Laggaii, Pal Dunderdale or Andrea Nicholson IIiitiiiiCllfiDifiilififiiiflilibilfilfiiilli E .k Please bring own piatas, glasses. and drinks ilitiiiR!ififiiliiififilfifllilifliiflkfiliiliilfi i tiififillillifllllilililfifiilifififi ,1./.. Laurence Boyle One of the most stimulating aspects of the early days of Eliot College at the University was the opportunity to meet and talk in the Senior Common Room on an equal footing to members of every other discipline. One was not limited to colleagues in one’s own subject, or even one’s own faculty. And it was here, in the late 60's or early 70's that I first met Laurence. Our conversation focussed, I remember, around books and book collecting, and I mentioned that in a way of specialising, I had assembled a number of Baedeker’s famous guides. Laurence immediately floored me and deflated my ego by declaring that he possessed an almost complete (or was it wholly complete?) series of these red volumes. My desire to view them (and, for that matter, the rest of his collection,) was however never satisfied. It was my first introduction to his apparent breadth of interest, but also to his tantalising capacity to display mere glimpses of this breadth. He did not trumpet his erudition: I subsequently learned that he was in fact one of the leading experts in the field, and was regularly consulted by top London booksellers and auction houses. Later, after I retired, I contributed for a while to the (now defunct) Canterbury Book Fair. Laurence was a regular visitor and an occasional customer: to my surprise I managed to sell him a few remarkably varied volumes — he had a sharp eye for a bargain. As an illustration of this the story, it is told that he would, notoriously, arrive to make his purchases at fairs in London just towards closing time — he realised that the best time to buy was when the stallholders were getting desperate to sell! In the Common Room he was always interested in what was going on, anxious to pick up gossip, though (perhaps wisely) never offering any himself, but he was always a loyal supporter of college events, provided they fitted his budget. Yet I do not ever remember him talking about Chemistry, Geology or any other aspect of his professional life: perhaps he thought that as non-scientists we would not understand. Quite a number of university colleagues lived in the villages south of Canterbury - Bridge, Patrixbourne and Bekesbourne. It was a long time before I realised he was one of them, and it was even longer (and only through third parties) that I discovered precisely where. Passers-by (and given its position there are not many) would get no more than a glimpse of what one neighbour privately designated 'Sleeping Beauty's Cottage’. And yet in the years after retirement, indeed probably for some time before that, with time on his hands, he had taken up local history, with a keen and particular interest in Bekesbourne, its history and affairs. He was precise and insistent on the extent of the old parish boundaries: in spite of the announcement of his death in the Oxford Mail, which described him as of Patrixbourne he would have disagreed: he did NOT live in Patrixbourne, but in Bekesbourne, for, as is well-known, the true and time—honoured boundary between the parishes runs down the middle of Patrixbourne Street. He was keen to retain the old. Thus he involved himself in the move to preserve the rent room in the grounds of Mulberry Cottage, where Conyngham tenants used in times past to come to pay their quarterly rents. He wrote the captions for the millennium exhibition boards for Bekesbourne. He took a particular interest in the social history of the village and the smaller incidents of village life, but, as it turned out, he was not unaware of the grand house either. His research was meticulous, even pedantic: I would receive email enquiries about aspects of local history which I had picked up as curator of Bridge archives, and I would receive occasional titbits to add to my collection. He was a careful proof-reader. However, what precisely he was researching remained at least to me obscure until January 2006 -— 10 years ago already — when he gave a talk to our history society on the fortunes of the Conynghams, owners of Bifrons House in Patrixbourne, and much else in East Kent besides. Given how little we in Bridge knew of Laurence’s antiquarian credentials, and the fact that he never actually joined the History Society, this turned out to be quite a surprise: astonishingly good, full, to me, of new information, justifying the long hours he apparently spent in numerous libraries around the country. Since then he continued with his work on Bifrons, sometimes under the most adverse circumstances, adding notes to a by now voluminous pile of papers even while in hospital. It is to be hoped that this painstaking research over so many years, and which clearly contains much new information, can be extracted from these papers and from his computer files and will not be lost, and means can be found to edit and publish what would be an undoubted work of scholarship. From my perspective Laurence ran his life in compartments: a mixture of diffidence and awkwardness, always asking the questions from the back of the room that others at the front would not wish to be asked; untidy and apparently disorganised in matters of the world, but pin sharp, quick and precise in scholarship, seeming to care little what others thought, but most anxious to get his facts right. He was one of Bekesbourne’s (or possibly Patrixbourne’s) real characters. M.Raraty 20/01/2016 ‘i 5 ..\..1.. . A-2:; wozsz .. rm "22 1%, /,. ‘(Z9 du 1 , f°*‘4-««./«—(t~u»s 7’ £,u>«p«~i:0...0 .,.nrg,.,,o,--. MAO KO. D“’°L“"‘”"' 9 "°~\ I Joyce Margaret White l’m Joyce Margaret White (at that time). l've never been called Joyce, I'm always Margaret except for official purposes and I lived in Canterbury until I got married. So, your stay in Bridge was between 1942 and 1944. What brought you to Bridge? Yes. We were in Canterbury on the first night of the Blitz and we were woken up with the raid and we went under the stairs and all sat in there. In the morning of course, because we were very close to the bombs with the Cathedral there, so close and Mum felt she didn't want to stay in Canterbury at night. She sent my brother John, who was four years older than me, to her friend's, Edie to ask Dad Fagg if we could sleep there overnight. Fortunately, John got there early enough because somebody else aftem/ards wanted to go there as well. So that night, the Monday night when we went out, you couldn't obviously get up the main road because everything was a mess. So, we walked round and had to go up Broad Street and up to the Dover Road and they used to stop the Dover- Folkestone buses and they turned round there because they couldn't get through. Also, they’ d lost a lot of buses at that time. The memory of that walk. A lot of houses on the left- hand side had been badly bombed and we were walking over glass and rubble because it was all still piled up there. But what always stuck in my mind was the masses of hosepipes that were covered because they'd all got caught and covered when the buildings collapsed. So, we walked round that and then we got the bus out to Bridge. Which street were you living in? Palace Street. Do you know round there? We do indeed. We lived at number 21 and it was the RSPCA because Mum was caretaker. It's not there now they pulled the wooden building down and built flats. We lived there. Before we moved there, Dad had a butcher's shop two doors up from that but when he gave up the butcher's shop that's when we went there. So, I lived in Palace Street most of my life. So, you took the bus up to Bridge but you say you stayed just overnight. Yes, just overnight. We didn't have food or anything but we went to the entrance Daddy Fagg gave us a room. We went to the back door. Nobody ever used the front door. We went in and we had this little room down and then when we were ready for bed we'd walk through their sitting room and there was a corridor and round the corner were the stairs and we had the first bedroom upstairs. It was a huge room with two double beds, there was plenty of room in there for all of us. Edie Fagg was along the corridor. How did your Mum know Edie? They were friends. She had a lot of farm friends because my Dad knew them, but before that. He was a widower when Mum married him and he had a hop farm at Four Oaks so he and his sons were all farming. So, at age 10 you were at school. I was at the school in Broad Street. You know when you go down Military Road, there's a school at the bottom. Diocesan Payne Smith? It wasn't Payne Smith School there, but on the night of the bombing Payne Smith School got bombed. So, the girls from there came in to our school. A lot of girls were evacuated still and so we absorbed the Payne Smith girls. So, what did you see of Bridge at that time? Well, all over the place. You didn't take in much of it but my main interest was to get out in to the fields and I cut down through the fields. I can't remember the name of the stream that goes through Bridge. The Nailbourne. Yes. He had a part where his cattle could go and that was just right. In the Summerl was always going paddling. One time I thought l’d be adventurous so l walked under the road. You couldn't go very far because it got deeper in some places, but that was my favourite. You went under the bridge but did you go up to the ford? We've been through it but you couldn't walk up the stream to it. ltried but it started to get deep in one place and I couldn't go any further. it must have been a much bigger stream. is it shallow now? It's not running at the moment. It runs every five or six years. All the two years I was there it was lovely. You were ten. Was there a sweet shop in the village? I don't remember but we were rationed to a quarter of a pound of sweets and we'd got our little favourite sweet shop in Palace Street that was there four years. A little tiny shop and that was my sweet shop. So if l’d got any coupons and money that's where l’d go. Did you then go back into Canterbury the next morning? We caught the early bus and walked at that early time down through. Of course, they bombed the second night we were at Bridge and it had been a big raid. Not quite as big as the first, and of course we went to look at Northgate and l can remember looking round and was our house still there? Luckily, Palace Street wasn't badly hit like St George's Street and along there. The ones that came near us were in the King's School grounds and the Deanery got badly damaged and the Canterbury Cathedral Library. l can remember sitting under the stairs and hearing the bombs that came nearer and I can remember hearing those that came there and thinking "Is the next one going to hit us?" i can understand your mother not wanting to stay there. So, you went to Bridge every night. Every night for two years then we were stopped. lthink it was the army stopped us. Only people that actually lived that side, you could more or less get to the top of Bridge Hill and then they had an army thing there and that was coming up, we think now, to D Day. They were keeping it all out of bounds. Yes, all the time we were in Bridge the army was there. What's that big house as you go out of Bridge? Something to do with Powell—Cotton, Baden Powell? Bifrons? Highland Court, Bridge Place? At the top of the hill on the right. I've got a feeling it was Baden Powell's place years ago; l don't know why. Well, the army had that they were all there under the trees. All the time we were going there. the army lorries were going up towards Canterbury and back and Bren gun carriers trundled past but looking back we think it was the same two or three that were making out that we were getting ready to go over from Dover. We didn't know it at the time but they were kind of decoys. So, when were you stopped going? I can't remember how early in '44 it was, probably early in '44 that we were told you couldn't go. That's extraordinary that every night you and your Mum were doing that. There was my brother John, my sister Joan, they're half brothers and sisters. My sister Joan was twenty years older than me and she'd got my nephew who was two years old in '42, born in 1940. So, there was five of us there. I got used to it out there and as soon as I'd had my tea, I'd get on the bus and go out. I made friends with the girl that lived at the Red Lion. She'd got lots of animals. She was a bit older than me. I can't remember her name. She persuaded me to join the Guides, so I joined the Guides in Bridge. where did you meet, in the Village Hall? It's gone completely, where we met. Ijust remember we went up near some woods and had a little campfire and found different things like that. Some things have stuck in my head and others have gone. Did you have breakfast at the farm? What time did the early bus go? No. Well I'd be at school at 9 so it must have been at least 8, coming up from Dover or Folkestone. Did you have any breakfast? Yes. when we got home, we had breakfast and then obviously I had to go to school. In the Winter it was so cold, you’cI come in the house we'd only got one fire which was range. Everything had to be lit. in the little scullery we had a little gas oven, so when it was so cold Mum used to open the door, light the gas and the gas pressure was about like that» the highest you could get like that — because sometimes they used to cut the gas pressure. I used to sit with my feet in the oven to warm myself up. Then we’d have a bit of breakfast and off I'd go. And what about supper? Did you have supper when you got to the farm? We had a tea before we went, so as far as I know we didn't have any food there. And you were the only family there, I think. Yes, just us. The first night we were there we all went down to the Red Lion and I don't know what time it was, but the siren went for the second raid on Canterbury. Of course, they came in over Bridge and they were fairly low, you could really hear them. There weren't many anti~aircraft guns round Canterbury when we first went there. They must have brought guns in. The noise of the guns firing at them was tremendous. Because we were down there, Dad Fagg turned up. I don't know whether he happened to be a Warden or something because he'd got a tin hat. He grabbed me and we were all, instead of staying there, I don't know why, we were all running up Bridge High Street with all this going on. I can remember thinking "Oh, it's alright for you, you've got a tin hat on." In the first part of the war, my brother would go out looking for shrapnel and he used to bring whole great big lumps in and I'd got visions of that falling on my head. So, to get to the shelter we had to come up the road and somehow or other we'd come from the shed. I remember how high the step was to get over. We'd come out of there and then into the field at the back of the cow shed. We would sit in there. But we'd come all that way round. You talked about "Dad" Fagg and they say "Daddy” Fagg's Farm, why is that? There was Dad Fagg and Wag Fagg and others. They were all farmers you see, in that area. One of them was at Barham. I didn't know the others very well. It's a common East Kent name isn't it? Yes, Dad Fagg, Wag Fagg. I'm intrigued. I've heard of him a lot, but what did he look like? He was a lovely man, putting up with me trailing round behind him. He'd got the cows and when you went in to the yard from the house, he had it where he used to bottle the milk. If he was doing that I'd go and help wash the milk bottles. It always intrigued me, but on the wall (I don't know how the milk got there in the first place) he'd got a wavy metal thing and hosepipe things with water went through the middle of it, and milk went down to cool it. Then he'd fill them and I'd stick the old cardboard discs on. when you'd done that, he'd got a little cart. To me it was a little black box, tiny, and he'd put the milk crates into that and off he'd go round the village. So, he would sell it? Yes. Margaret, you were 8 when the war started? can you remember Canterbury before the War? Just, I was 7. Do you know the Long Market? I can remember, I must have been about 3 I suppose. I remember my Dad taking me through in there. It was like antique places and they'd got a little oval of shops all the way down. All the people squashed in there and it's stuck in my mind. I remember Woolworth’s. Their glass windows on either side were curved and I remember all the stuff in there. Then or course, you saw the devastation. The morning after the first raid, Mum and Joan and I thinklohn, went up to see. I was miffed because they wouldn't let me go. They weren't long because they couldn't get very far, only to the end of Palace Street and that was it. They came back and thought they'd just go round and look at Northgate and they did let me go. In some ways I wished I hadn't. We were walking over the glass and the smell, burnt. Just up Northgate, bombs had dropped on two or three houses and I saw them bringing somebody out. As soon as we saw that we went. Did you ever rebel, as children, about having to go out to Bridge every evening? No, it was just something we did. And you would have continued there if the army hadn't stopped you? Yes, ‘til the end of the War. Then Mum had got some friends at Chartham and that's where we went ‘til the end of the War. where about in Chartham? I know Charlham quite well. You know the paper mill? Right opposite that, there's a little alley way. It came out into a green of cottages and Mum's friends were in the first cottage on the right where the well was. Outside the house was the well and that's where they all came for their water. Because it was right outside the house, they'd got a little pump on the sink, the same as the outside, but a miniature one. The water from that was lovely. Fresh, cool water. The toilet was down the garden and you could sit in there and watch other people coming in and out because there were holes all over it. So there was Mrs so and so going in to hers! So, you caught a bus out to Chartham which is further than Bridge. Yes, and did the same thing. So that stopped at the end of the War? More or less to the end of the War, yes. The memories of there —there was a lot of children and we had plenty to play with. I t must have been coming up for Christmas. I'd gone out early as usual, I didn't want to stay in and I was playing. The lady in the cottage opposite had 2 or 3 children and there was a Christmas do up at the mental hospital (St. Augustine's). She said to me "Would you like to come?” I'd go anywhere, but did I tell anybody? No. I just went. Your poor Mum she must have been frantic. But up there, it was lovely. We got orange squash or something and a little show. Unfortunately, whilst we were there, a doodle bug came over and its engine stopped just over us. There was a big explosion. Mum and them had come out. Where was I? I didn't half get told off. Having been safe in Bridge all that time you were in the path of a doodlehug. Now is there anything else you'd like to tell us? Well, I'm just nattering on and it's not about Bridge but the one real fright I had during the War there was what we called a hit and run or tip and run. It was afternoon, about 4 and a friend of Mum had come up visiting her. He asked me to take him to someone he wanted to meet. I can't remember who that was, but we'd gone just round the corner into Knott’s Lane and there was Jackson's the scrap merchant on the corner and we'd got more or less level with that and there was a terrific noise, gunfire. There’d been no siren and these planes came over the rooftops. This was a Saturday, the planes came at rooftop height, firing all up the High Street. Because it was down the narrow end people couldn't get in to the shops, there was nowhere for them to go. A lot of people got killed. Right from Jackson's yard, more or less over our heads a plane came. I looked up and it was low enough, I could see the pilot and the one behind him. It had a bomb hanging underneath it. A man came from nowhere and pushed me down against a wall and stood over me. It was over in seconds. As it was happening, what we called the hooter went and that was only done when the planes were very close, but theyfd already come under the radar. They'd done the same at Whitstable and of course that's a straight line. By the time Whitstable let us know, they were over. The thing was, Mum's having a lot of country friends, they all came into Canterbury to do their shopping. Of course, all those friends, once they'd done that, they'd all come round for a cup of tea at Mum's tea shop on a Saturday afternoon. Apparently, they were holding Mum back because she was coming out to find me but they wouldn't let her. We had an outside toilet. It flushed and everything. One of Mum's friends had already gone in there and she soon shot back indoors. We never did get where Ernie wanted to go. That wasn't very nice. It‘: so sad for us because we came to the village in 1968 and in 1963 Daddy Fagg's farm ha dbeen pulled done. But when you think how old that was, you know in your picture of the house something about that staircase. This is the road and you came in down there in the back door. This is the big kitchen. It was all red brick and along the wall were two large bread ovens and I can't remember the rest but it was all the length. But our room was only small but I've no idea what that was and that's where you said that old staircase was. So I can't make out what that was because we only had a small room there. It was a very old building wasn't it? Yes, but to my mind it was lovely. Their front, this is the room Edie and Dad Fagg used. When you went down the corridor there was another big room here, it would be like their front room. I only remember the door being open once for a glimpse and it was full of furniture and ornaments but nobody went in there. I only got a glimpse and there was a huge fireplace there and they sat either side. Did Edie and Daddy Fagg have children? No, not that i know of. When you went outside, they'd got a yard here and a great big walnut tree and then at the back of that was the wall of a barn or something, whatever was going up there and as you walked up there to the little gate to get into the field, all this part, Dad Fagg had made a vegetable garden and he'd got it crammed with everything you could think of. He really did work. All along this wall were fruit against the wall. The sun went round on that wall and then you used to go out into the field if the geese weren't there. I used to get so cross if the geese were near because I couldn't go through. I never went up to their rooms so I've got no idea of the layout or anything. Somebody else I've interviewed said she could remember a village fete on Daddy Fagg's meadow. No, I don't remember anything like that. At weekends, did you still come out in the evening? Yes, just the same. That's really fascinating and thank you very much Margaret. IMAGES APPEARING IN “TOM’S WINDOW” Cinguefoil: Top: St. Margaret of Scotland (wife of King Malcolm ill of Scotland and Michael's 33- and also 31 —greats grandmother — this is because of cousins marrying) Left centre: St. Margarets Gospel Book (page depicting Luke the Evangelist) Right centre: Stephen and Matilda holding a model of Faversham Abbey Left lower: St. Mary of Charity Church, Faversham where Michael & Elizabeth were married on 8.12.1962 Right lower: Canterbury Cathedral from the west (opposite Studio entrance where this stained glass window was made) Centre: Angel with baby Right Lancet: Sections 1 & 2: Cross in background; rainbow; birds; kestrel; Spitfire; hot air balloon Section 3: Countryside with sheep and shepherd Section 4: Renville Farm triple oast; bridge (as it was) over Nailbourne in Bridge High Street with tops of Village Hall (including Sergeant Blee's clock) and Ship Cottage in background (artistic licence for positioning of buildings as neither would be visible here being 100/200 yards to the right); hops; wren on branch Section 5: — Left: Bridgehill & Beechwood Railway platform ticket lying between rails continued across from left lancet; windmill (top of Union Road); countryside with Michael, Elizabeth, lan, Heather, David and Alison and Lottie their fox—red Labrador with ball along pathway; pheasant - Centre: Straw bales on cornfield (mostly cut); uncut wheat with poppies; hare; dragonfly » Top right: Higham Park (Highland Court) with Count Zborowski in Chitty Bang Bang car Section 6: St. Mary's Church, Patrixbourne with branch of oak leaves and acorns; oak tree; Adonis Blue and Peacock butterflies; squirrel Section 7: Michael's eight—greats grandparents, Thomas Lamplugh (1615-91), Archbishop of York 1688- 91, with wife Catherine nee Davenant (1633-1671); arms of the Diocese of York between them; windflowers (note Elizabeth’s needle and thread between them) and grapevine (balancing those in Section 7 of left lancet) Left Lancet: Sections 1 & 2: Dove representing God’s Holy Spirit; several birds Section 3: Rainbow; more birds; cows, robin; the artist, her partner and their dog Section 4: Bridge across Nailbourne north of road from Bridge to Patrixbourne: egret; willow tree; bees; daffodils; Red Admiral butterfly Section 5: — Top left: Bridge Bypass; Michae|’s MGB GT car; Francis Davis (Elizabeth’s family firm) lorry — Centre left: Copper beech tree along Bishopsbourne Road — Bottom left: Michael driving his (now defunct) Bridgehill & Beechwood Railway 7% inch train in garden being pushed along by Richard Noble (fastest man in the world) — Top right: Blue tit — Centre right: Bridge carrying railway over Pelt Road; dog roses — Bottom right: Between the rails, South Eastern & Chatham Railway ticket from Bridge to Bishopsbourne Section 6: St. Peter's Church, Bridge; rose; thistles; apples on tree branch; mouse Section 7: Archbishop Robert Runcie (1921-2000); Present Archdeacon of Canterbury Jo Kelly—Moore; arms of the Diocese of Canterbury between them; grapevine; snowdrops (curved snowdrop shaped as the Archbishop's crook); and, finally, the simple prayer — ‘TRUST IN GOD FOR GOD HAS A REASON FOR EVERYTHING’ 36 TOM’S WINDOW installed in St. Peter’s Church, Bridge, Kent August 2019 LEFT LANCET — SECTION 6 This section portrays our church here in Bridge dedicated to St. Peter, with a rose (for Elizabeth), thistles (for Michael), apples on tree branch and a mouse in the bottom corner. Bridge has always been part of the parish of Patrixbourne and there has been a chapel on this site in Bridge since 1189. It was enlarged through the 12*“ and 13“ centuries to become a church. As seen today, the church is the result of the extensive restoration work undertaken in 1859-60 by architect (Sir) Giles Gilbert Scott, when the externalwalls were completely refaced with dark knapped flint. The original west doonivay is mid—to-late 12”‘ century and has fine mouldings standing out in bold relief. The original 12”“ century tower deteriorated to such an extent that in 1859-60 it was completely rebuilt above its medieval base with a shingled spire and the addition of the south—east stair turret. The tower is hung with a ring of three bells thought to have been cast in the 14“ century. The traditional layout inside the church is of three aisles and a chancel with a wooden barrel roof over the nave and plain wooden roofs over the side aisles. There is a small amount of Norman stonework visible but almost all of what is seen today is Victorian. At one time the eastern end of the north aisle was partitioned off for use as a schoolroom. There are several carvings and interesting tablets within the church. There is an unusual carved panel of good quality of the Late Perpendicular period in the form of a Norman semi-circular stone tympanum reset in the chancel wall which may have been the heading to an earlier door. There is one early 16'” century reclining effigy monument set into the north wall near the altar. On the internet you can find an interesting report written in 1994 for the Kent Archaeological Society by Tim Tatton Brown. 34 ST. PETER’S CHURCH, BRIDGE, CANTERBURY, KENT TOM’S WINDOW A spectacular stained glass window at the west end of the north aisle, replacing Victorian clear glass PRESENTED BY MICHAEL AND ELIZABETH STEWART IN MEMORY OF THEIR SON TOM GOWRIE STEWART (19.12.1973 - 29.3.1974) who lived for just 100 days (an unexplained cot death) DESIGNED AND MADE BY GRACE AYSON OF CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL STUDIOS WINDOW CONCEIVED IN 2017, INSTALLED IN 2019 DEDICATED BY THE MOST REVEREND AND RIGHT HONOURABLE JUSTIN WELBY, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY Enquiries to The Vicarage, 23 High Street, Bridge, Canterbury, Kent CT4 5JZ 3 LEFT LANCET - SECTION 5 1-.o,.~ -: ¥ 1' *.-.~.‘v—~";‘._-"!‘,3‘ J . The campaign to obtain a bypass for Bridge lasted from 1962 until 1974 and it was finally opened in June 1976. The photo here shows a Francis Davis (Elizabeth's family firm) lorry outside the White Horse pub passing close to another thus showing the narrowness of the High Street. It was too difficult to include this in the window as photographed and separately to include the bypass to the east of the village. Therefore Grace transposed the two lorries onto her depiction of the bypass with Michael’s MGB GT ‘MGS 73’ racing away ahead of them. 32 TOM GOWRIE STEWART (19.12.1973-29.3.1974) His sister Heather tells his story Just before Christmas 1973 when I was 6, Ian 7 and David 2, I gained another brother whom my parents named Tom Gowrie — Tom after Mum’s grandfather Tom Davis, haulier and coal merchant in Faversham, and Gowrie after Michael's grand-uncle, Gowrie Colquhoun Aitchison, who was Chief Engineer in the building of the Snowdon Mountain Railway and later its General Manager and also General Manager of the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railway (the predecessor of the current popular reopened Welsh Highland Railway). Tom was born at the Kent & Canterbury Hospital at 6:15pm on 19 December 1973 and weighed 7lb 13% ounces. Dad wrote a Press Conference Report on the birth which noted the emergency final stage of a rush from Bridge to Canterbury Hospital at 6pm, a whirlwind wheelchair propulsion along the corridors which reached base at 6:05pm with the launch successfully concluded just ten minutes later. He then wrote the following short poems- Furlher increase (Stewart Clan) Gowrie (for railways — the Snowdon connection) Now fulfils our family plan. Thus completing a sterling collection. To Elizabeth a son (another): May God protect them all through life To .anl Heather and David. a br0ll1er§ And keep them safe from war and strife, We hereby name our newest son And if our children four survive Unabbreviatable Tom Pray God forbid an advance to five! Tom was a lovely little brother and enhanced our Christmas that year and seemed perfectly well and happy. However, on 29 March at lunchtime, when Dad was out at a client’s farm near Sandwich, Mum went to pick Tom up out of his pram and was shocked to find that he was not breathing. She rushed with him to a neighbour’s house but there was nothing that could be done. Tom had died. After dealing with the police (as has to be done whenever there is a sudden death) and the coroner, Tom's poor little body was released back to Mum and Dad and he was put in a tiny white coffin and cremated at Barham on 5 April. Following Tom’s tragic death, Dad wrote this plaintive poem:— OUT heel lald Scheme le all agley; O God, we must presume, it seems All lhlhgs Change and Pass aWayl Your reason‘s good to smash our dreams Bill God» Why Tom ahd Why leday? And cause a wake. But wake again For Tom knew “°lhlh9 bad Or mearl; And look not back, the past is gone: Life was in its opening scene. All he saw was good and true, The future ever beckons on Out of the darkness into dawn. Why lake hlm back _bel0re he knew Please let another child be born, HOW lZO Cl|Stl‘l'lgU|Sl'1 right from wrong? For we are young and pray we can You gave him to us, small and strong, still fulfil our family plan, Why Play Oh US this Cruel leal O God, to you once more we pray And take him back fFOlTl Mother's breast Keep safe our Tom til] end of day, Without warning? And on 1 April 1975 the plea was granted and Alison Chree Stewart was born. LEFT LANCET — SECTIONS 1 & 2 At the top in section 1 is a dove representing God’s Holy Spirit with the rays of the sun behind it, with birds in flight. This continues into section 2. The rays then come down in section 3 to the rainbow which carries across into the right lancet. 30 THE DESIGN CONCEPT OF GRACE AYSON, THE ARTIST (as submitted to the Diocesan Advisory Committee) “As we journey in and through our lives, in a physical, emotional and spiritual journey, we gain knowledge, wisdom, love and patience. Those journeys unfold a story of who we are and what we do in the world. Everyone has a story, the journey that has been and the journey that will be. This is the theme of my design proposal. Moving through the landscape in the design are footpaths and walkers. This element of the design reflects my own love of walking in the countryside — a love shared by many people. Journeys on foot through the landscape are, or course, very important in the area around Canterbury, well-known as a destination for pilgrims through the ages; the Pilgrims’ Way path is very close. Travelling on foot from one place to another symbolises both the journey along |ife’s different paths and the path which leads to God; we may stumble, but Jesus and our fellow travellers are there to help us get back on our feet, allowing us to become stronger in ourselves and in our faith. The design depicts the richness of the land around the Bridge area, and l have allowed the flow of the roundel scenes to ‘break out’ of the containment into this landscape. The area inside the ‘roundels’ is full of vibrant colour, whilst the area surrounding them contains more muted colours and tints, serving to emphasise the scenes depicted in each roundel. Throughout the window, the level of detail is very high. The prominence of the stunning Kent landscape, in particular the area around the village of Bridge, is an important element of the design. The land around the village bears much flora and fauna, and this is celebrated throughout the scheme. Featured within the window are birds in flight — starlings, swallows, blue tits, robins, seagulls and birds of prey. Scenes and stories from Michael and Elizabeth Stewart's lives are set within the rolling hills, which also set the backdrop for oak, copper beech and willow trees. In the distance and surrounding the roundel scenes are hop farms, wheat fields and orchards bearing fruit. Amongst the scenes are also wild flowers including snowdrops, poppies, daffodils, wild roses and windflowers. A single dove at top of the left lancet represents God’s Holy Spirit, watching over us and guiding us as we take our journey towards Christ. The eternal heavenly element of the design merges with the earthly delights of the land below. The rainbow is reflected onto the waters of the river, and rays of light shine towards the land. The prayer and inscription at the bottom of the window sit in harmony and merge with the landscape. The grapevine and flowers weave around the wording. The central roundel in the cinquefoil depicts an angel embracing a baby in its arms and wings, a memorial to Tom Gowrie Stewart." RIGHT LANCET — SECTION 7 THE NEW WINDOW: vv WITH STAINED GLASS 4 _ ' 1|. r~.n\.~\R1.» ‘ 0 \'...;o.:s»7; ‘. ‘gr:-3-'»'" 1 -" .v;"“' 5': I i 4 u\... 0 £9 113*‘ -~-I. ‘ A .\.~’-3+3 I Portraits of Thomas Lamplugh (C1689) and Catherine Lampiugh (c1664) in York Art Gallery RIGHT LANCET — SECTION 5 (CONTINUED) Top right in this section is Higham (pronounced ’Hyam') Park or, as it is also known, Highland Court. It was renamed the latter as the previous owners, the Whigham family, did not want to risk being known as the Whighams of Higham (‘Wiggams of Higgam‘)! Walter K. Whigham was a director of the London and North Eastern Railway and the A4 Pacific engine number 60028 carried his name. In 1910, the property was bought by Countess Margaret Zborowski, who died only three months after buying it. It was inherited (along with £11,000,000 and a considerable amount of real estate in New York) by her son Count Louis Zborowski who thus became the 4th richest under-21-year old in the world. Unfortunately, 13 years later (in 1924) the Count was killed racing in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza (when aged only 29). Before then, however, Louis had set up an engineering works in the stables at Higham Park, where he and engineer Clive Gallop (the father of Michael's friend, Sue Rickards from Chilham) designed and built four aero-engine-powered racing cars. These cars were known as ‘Chitty Bang Bang’ cars. Although the origin of the name is unknown, it is thought to derive from either a lewd World Warl soldiers’ song or simply the sound of the aircraft engines that powered the cars. One of these was later immortalised in the novel “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car” written by Ian Fleming who lived at The Old Palace in Bekesbourne and the film “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”, which was based on the novel. For those of you who know the film, you will appreciate that Caractacus Potts‘ version was a little more elaborate than the Count’s! THE CREATION AND INSTALLATION PROCESS (CONTINUED) 5. It is now time to really develop the window and apply the paints and finer details onto the glass. The image shows a selection of paints, brushes and mediums used during the painting process. 7. The second layer of paint is applied, giving extra depth 6. The first layer of paint is applied. to the image. 8. The third layer of paint is applied. All the glass is now ready to be fired in the kiln at 640°C. This permanently fuses the glass paint to the glass surface. L 9. More colour is now added to the glass during the painting process. 11 RIGHT LANCET — SECTION 5 THE CREATION AND INSTALLATION PROCESS (CONTINUED) 15. The next step is to strengthen the panel and _ V I make it watertight. This is done by cementing 14- The Q'aZ'“g 0f“"'_5 Ia“C9I'5 3Im°5I the panel with a special glazing cement. The COTTTDIGIG (Glace QI3Z'”9)~ cement is brushed onto the panel to fill in all the gaps between the lead and the glass. Below the Windmill in this section are fields containing round straw bales and, 16. The Cement is walking past those, Grace has drawn in Elizabeth and Michael and their children, Cleaned Off and the Ian, Heather, David and Alison and also Lottie, theirfox-red Labrador with her ball. pane. is polished, it is 17. The panel is being Below them sits a colourful male pheasant and centre-right is some uncut wheat now complete and inserted W0 the Window with poppies, a hare and a dragonfly. ready to be installed in stonework opening in the i ‘ ' the Wlnd0W- Church‘ 18. The panel is finally installed! RIGHT LANCET — SECTION 4 The images in section 4 of the right lancet will be recognisable to residents of the village. in the top left corner, above the hops, is the converted triple oast at Renville Farm. Of course, oast houses and hops are a distinct feature of this county. At the peak of hop—farming in the county. in 1878. there were 77,000 acres of hops grown in Kent, but today there are less than 1,000 acres. in 1841 there were 90 acres of hops shown on the Bridge Tithe map. Now, there are no hops at all grown in Bridge parish. CINQUEFOIL ABOVE THE LANCETS “BEAUTIFUL ANGEL” At the installation event, Bettina Walker sang this hymn from the Sunday School Hymn Book of the Sisters of Notre Dame (1907). Guardian angel, from heaven so bright. Watching beside me, to lead me aright, Fold thy wings round me, O guard me with love, Softly sing songs to me of heav'n above. Beautiful angel, my guardian so mild. Tender/y guide me, for I am thy child. Angel so holy whom God sends to me. Sinful and lowly, my guardian to be; Wilt thou not cherish the child of thy care? Let me not perish, my trust is thy pray’r. Beautiful angel. my guardian so mild. Tenderly guide me, for I am thy child 0 may I never forget thou art near: But keep me ever in love and in fear. Waking or sleeping, in labour and rest, in thy sweet keeping my life shall be blest. Beautiful angel, my guardian so mild, Tenderly guide me. for I am thy child. Angel, clear Angel, Oh, close by me stay: Safe from harm shield me, all ill keep away Then thou wilt lead me when this life is o'er To Jesus and Mary to praise evermore. Beautiful angel, my guardian so mild. Tenderly guide me, for I am thy child. RIGHT LANCET — SECTIONS 1 & 2 At the event celebrating the windows installation, our organist played the first verse of the hymn “When I Survey the Wondrous Cross” as there is a Christian cross in the background of sections 1 and 2. There are also two images of other things that might once have been seen or might still be seen in the skies above this part of Kent: a hot air balloon and a Spitfire. The Spitfire is there to remind us of the Battle of Britain in September 1940 when Kent was the main county in whose airspace it was fought, and because of the Spitfire and its pilots Winston Churchill was able to say “Never was so much owed by so many to so few”. There are then birds flying around and above the rainbow, which links across from the left lancet and turns down towards its end. CINQUEFOIL LEFT CENTRE LOBE: ST. MARGARET’S GOSPEL BOOK .n~ .unuo..u. g-a-r IVI .mplm.z- (um: um.» St. Matthew St. Mark St. John Margaret had a Gospel Book adorned with gold and precious stones which included beautiful illuminated pictures of the four evangelists. She particularly prized and often read this Gospel Book. One of her retainers, when crossing a ford, let the book, which had been carelessly folded in a wrapper, fall into the stream, and carried on, unaware that he had lost it. When he later uncovered the wrapper to find that the book was not inside, a major panic ensued. Extraordinarily, the book was eventually found lying open at the bottom of the stream. The pieces of silk that were between the leaves to prevent the letters rubbing against each other had been washed away. Miraculously, not a letter of text and none of the illustrations were obliterated. Margaret gave thanks for this miracle and prized her Gospel Book more than ever. There were no traces of the book for some 800 years until it was put into an auction in 1887 and sold for £6 to the Bodleian Library in Oxford. However, it was only after the Library purchased the book that a young scholar made the connection that they now owned the very book that St. Margaret had owned and diligently studied. It can still be seen in the Bodleian today. 17 CINQUEFOIL RIGHT CENTRE LOBE: STEPHEN AND MATlLDA AND FAVERSHAM ABBEY Above right is a representation of Stephen holding a model of Faversham Abbey — from ‘The Four Norman Kings’ by Matthew Pans (c 1250). At upper right in the cinquefoil are King Stephen (1092/6A 1154) and Queen Matilda (1105?—1152), both being Michael’s direct ancestors. Queen Margaret had 8 children — 6 sons (3 of whom subsequently became Kings of Scotland) and 2 daughters, one of whom Edith (also known as Matilda) married Henry l of England. The other daughter. Mary, married Eustace lll, Count of Boulogne, and they had a daughter Matilda (also known as Maud) who in 1125 married Stephen of Blois. Stephen succeeded Henry I as King of England ten years later in a bloodless coup over the rights of Henry’s daughter (his cousin), the Empress Matilda, married firstly to Henry V. Holy Roman Emperor and then to Geoffrey of Anjou. One of the achievements of Stephen and Matilda was the founding of the great Abbey of St. Saviour at Faversham around 1147. Matilda took a particular interest in the building of the Abbey which was designed as a royal mausoleum. When she died in 1152 she was buried there, as was her son Eustace in the following year and her husband King Stephen in the year after that. up ' ‘ (1 ;;... s . :i'.'%T'd_‘.» ll. ~§2.(\~$.§,4,4 r.-.». Faversham Abbey was a massive building. three~quarters the size of Canterbury Cathedral. Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries by Henry VIII, the Abbey was surrendered in 1538 and it appears that the royal tombs were robbed, with demolition of the building starting at once. Around 1640 it was recorded that the tombs had been robbed for their lead and the royal bodies thrown into the creek. However, in the Trinity Chapel of St. Mary's Church in Faversham is a tomb in which they are said to have been reinterred. However, recent pleadings for the tomb to be opened and DNA tests carried out to confirm the identity of those interred have been rejected. in 1965, the Abbey remains were excavated by the eminent archaeologist Brian Philp and Michael helped a little with the dig, during which two large pits were found, which must have been the royal vaults. Elizabeth‘s ancestors also farmed the nearby Abbey Farm a couple of hundred years ago and Faversham is where Michael and Elizabeth both lived until moving to Bridge after their marriage in 1962. The current Faversham Grammar School was built on the site of the Abbey in 1965 and was the reason why the excavation took place. 18 CINQUEFOIL LEFT AND RIGHT LOWER LOBES: FAVERSHAM CHURCH AND CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL At the lower left of the cinquefoil is St. Mary of Charity Church, Faversham, where Elizabeth was christened in 1941, and her parents married on 2 September 1939. the day before the start of World War II. Michael and Elizabeth were married there on 8 December 1962, with the service starting at 3:30pm. The hands of the clock in the image in the window are set to this time! The last image — at the lower right of the cinquefoil — is a view of Canterbury Cathedral from the west. This is included because of this parish’s obvious connections to the Cathedral and the fact that the window was made in the Cathedral Studios which are less than 100 yards from the west door. 19 CINQUEFOIL TOP LOBE: ST. MARGARET OF SCOTLAND (1045-1093) Once upon a time. nearly one thousand years ago, there lived a beautiful English princess whose name was Margaret. Margaret was the daughter of Prince Edgar Atheling of the royal house ofwessex and a Hungarian princess called Agatha. Following the failure of her father and brother to be selected as successors to her great—uncle. the childless Edward the Confessor, Margaret resolved to return to Hungary where she had been born in 1045 during her father‘s earlier exile. However, on leaving Northumbria in the year 1068, her ship was driven up the Firth of Forth by a storm. Fortunately, she and her mother and siblings were hospitably received by King Malcolm lll Canmore. Some 11 years earlier, Malcolm had killed Macbeth, thereby avenging the death of his father. King Duncan, at the hands of Macbeth's armies 17 years before that. Shakespeare, however, wrote that it was Macduff and not Malcolm who killed Macbeth. Margaret was very devout and had nearly decided to enter a nunnery when she agreed to marry the widowed King Malcolm. Malcolm and Margaret were a most devoted couple and performed many good works for the poor, the aged, the orphans and the sick, and for the church and state in Scotland. Margaret's works included re—founding the monastery in lona, founding a priory at Dunfermline. which is where she had married Malcolm, and establishing a ferry across the Firth of Forth for pilgrims travelling to St. Andrews in Fife (which gave the ports of North Queensferry and South Queensferny their names). As a result, Margaret was greatly respected and loved by her people. She also had a strong connection with Canterbury, as a number of her religious reforms. which sought to conform the worship and practices of the Church of Scotland to those of Rome, she instigated under the inspiration of and with guidance from Archbishop Lanfranc, whom she had asked to be her spiritual father. The beautiful letter that he wrote to her accepting this role has survived and can be viewed ill the British Library in London and has been translated from the Latin. "Lanfranc. unworthy Archbishop of the holy church of Canterbury. sends greetings and his blessing to Margaret the glorious Queen of the Scots. In the brief span of a letter l cannot unfold the joy with which you flooded my heart when l studied the letter that you sent me . . It is as a result of Christ's teaching here that you, who are born ofa royal line. brought up as befits a queen and nobly wedded to a noble king. are choosing me as your father . Let there be a mutual exchange between us of prayers and good works. Those that l render are small indeed. but I am confident that I shall receive far greater benefits in return. From now on then may i be your father and be you my daughter " As a result ofthat connection, the resident monks at the priory and the abbey subsequently established on the site by her youngest son, King David, were Benedictine monks from Canterbury, which explains why Dunfermline was sometimes referred to as "little Canterbury”. Margaret died in 1093 (aged just 48), just three days after she learnt that Malcolm and their eldest son had been slain by Norman forces at Alnwick. She and Malcolm were both buried at Dunfermline. in around 1250 Margaret was canonized by Pope Innocent IV who asked for her and Malcolm's bodies to be moved from their original tomb to a new shrine in Dunfermline. Some 300 years later. post—Reformation, their bones were exhumed and acquired by Philip ll of Spain and placed in urns in the Escorial Palace in Madrid. but St. Margaret’s head was preserved and passed down to Mary Queen of Scots as a relic to assist her in childbirth. in fact, the spirit of Margaret was often called upon to protect women during pregnancy and Scottish queens often went to Dunfermline to give birth to benefit from proximity to her grave. She is sometimes given the accolade of patron saint against dead children. Her head was subsequently hidden in Fife and then in Antwerp and then passed to the Scotch College at Douai in France. When at Douai in 1785 it was still wellepreserved and seen to have the fine fair hair with which she is portrayed in the window. The only remaining trace of Margaret's remains now are a relic said to be part of her shoulder bone that is on display at St. Margaret's Memorial Church, Dunfermline. 16 RIGHT LANCET — SECTION 2 (CONTINUED) In 1934, when she was 18, Michael’s mother, Amy Stewart, then Amy Hassard— Short, wrote this poem about the rainbow’s end which she entitled “Inspiration”. “My inspiration comes The green sweeping branches From the eternal sunshine: Of trees in springtime And from the radiant glow Give me words to sing the praise Ot summer sunsets. Of Him who gave me this Against the vast screen of sky Vast panorama of loveliness i draw my pictures, painted In which to live. With indelible colours With every new dawn Of nature's loveliness. Thoughts of thankfulness From the ever live grass Fill my evergrateful heart. Ofwoods and meadows, in the sweet cool rain And the wild singing grasses l wash my tired mind Of the marshlands Free from the dust I hear my music, Of city streets. With the sweet melody Once, for one glorious moment Of bird songs for my choir I bathed myself in beauty By the winds in storm Of the ethereal arc of colours Orgenlle breezes And then I knew -, I change my passions That every lovely thought and dream As nature changes the day Through all my years From dawn till dusk. Would be waiting for me Where the rainbow ends.” RIGHT LANCET — SECTION 3 This section depicts a view of local countryside with a shepherd and his flock, crossed by the suns rays. 21 THE CREATION AND INSTALLATION PROCESS (CONTINUED) Tn the Studios. Grace and Heather with glass cutouts; at right, Michael, son lan, daughter Alison (at back), daughter Heather and her daughter Liberty, admire with Grace the progressing lancets. installation inside with scaffolding and outside with erecting tower. Wow! The sun throws the rainbow and other colours onto the stonework. adjoining is The window from outside above the three installers (Grace, David Griffiths and Fabian Gurschler). I RIGHT LANCET — SECTION 4 (CONTINUED) 1 E V .1 Grace (using an old photograph and her permitted artistic licence) has changed the buildings in the background across the road from the bridge in the High Street to show the Village Hall and Ship Cottage, which are in fact a couple of hundred yards away to the right. In the centre the River Nailbourne, which starts at Lyminge and comes up through the Elham Valley, flows north under the bridge. The river then goes on its way to join the Little and Great Stour rivers and eventually to the sea at Pegwell Bay. The photograph unusually depicts the river in full flow, whereas it is more often dry. In wet years, after much heavy rainfall affecting the layers of chalk underground, the Nailbourne can break out and cause substantial flooding as last happened in 2014 when there was extensive flooding throughout the Elham Valley and Bridge hit the national news headlines. Local superstition has it that the Nailbourne only flows every seven years and is a sign of bad luck. This derives from a legend that St. Augustine (who had been sent by Pope Gregory the Great to convert the Anglo—Sa>(.01\3—> 1014 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 INDEX Front cover This index Title page Forewords by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York; Acknowledgements Tom Gowrie Stewart The window from conception to installation The design concept The old window The new window The creation and installation process Cinquefoil above the lancets; Words of hymn “Beautiful Angel” Cinquefoil top lobe: St. Margaret of Scotland Cinquefoll left centre lobe: St. Margarets Gospel Book Cinquefoil right centre lobe: Stephen and Matilda and Faversham Abbey Cinquefoil left and right lower lobes: St. Mary of Charity Church, Faversham and Canterbury Cathedral Right lancet Sections 1 & 2: Cross down to rainbow; Balloon; Spitfire Right lancet Section 1 & 2 ctd:. Words of poem “Inspiration”; Right lancet Section 3: Countryside with shepherd and sheep Right lancet Section 4: Renville Oast and hops Right lancet Section 4 ctd: River Nailbourne; Bridge Village Hall; Ship Cottage Right lancet Section 5: Stewart family and fields Right lancet Section 5 ctd: Railway ticket; Windmill Right lancet Section 5 ctd: Higham Park; Chitty Bang Bang car Right lancet Section 6: St. Mary's Church, Patrixbourne Right lancet Section 7: Archbishop Lamplugh and his wife Right lancet Section 7 ctd: Archbishop Lamplugh and his wife Left lancet Sections 1 & 2: Dove representing God's Holy Spirit; Rainbow Left lancet Sections 3 & 4: Birds and rainbow; The White Bridge Left lancet Section 5: Bridge Bypass Left lancet Section 5 ctd: Railway bridge and ticket; Bridgehill & Beechwood Railway Left lancet Sections 6: St. Peters Church, Bridge Left lancet Section 7: Archbishop Robert Runcie and Archdeacon Jo Kelly-Moore List of images appearing in window LEFT LANCET — SECTION 7 :4 , ‘Q , Trust in God. » for God has .1 reason for everything Archbishop Robert Runcie (1921-2000) In the centre of this section are the arms of the Diocese of Canterbury. At the right is Archbishop Robert Runcie. Michael's good friend David Maple, with whom he started his accountancy training in 1957, was Robert's Chaplain in Canterbury while he was Archbishop. In 1989, when he was 49, Michael was confirmed by Robert in Canterbury Cathedral, wearing his kilt in deference to his Scottish ancestors. During World War II Robert earned a commission as a second lieutenant in the Scots Guards and served, as a tank commander, with one of the regiment‘s tank battalions. He landed in Normandy as part of Operation Overlord in July 1944, a few weeks after the D—Day landings, and then fought with the battalion throughout the entire North West Europe Campaign until Victory in Europe Day in May 1945. In March 1945, he earned the Military Cross for two feats of bravery. In May 1945, he was among the first British soldiers to enter the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Robert was ordained in the Diocese of Newcastle in 1950 to serve as a curate in the parish of All Saints in the Newcastle upon Tyne suburb of Gosforth. After only two years, he returned to Westcott House, Cambridge, where he had studied, initially as Chaplain and, later, as \/ice—Principal. In 1956, he was elected Fellow and Dean of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. In 1960, he became Principal of Cuddesdon College, near Oxford, and vicar of the local parish church (coincidentally, only 8 miles from Charlton—on— Otmoor where Thomas Lamplugh had been vicar 300 years earlier). During his ten years at Cuddesdon, his name became strongly spoken of as a future bishop, and speculation was confirmed when he was appointed Bishop of St. Albans in 1970. Robert was selected as Archbishop of Canterbury in 1979 and was installed on 25 March 1980. In 1981, he officiated at the marriage of Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, and in 1982 he knelt in prayer with Pope John Paul ll in Canterbury Cathedral during his visit to the United Kingdom. Robert retired as Archbishop of Canterbury effective 31 January 1991 and on the following day he was created a life peer — gazetted Baron Runcie of Cuddesdon in the County of Oxfordshire ~ enabling him to immediately re—enter the House of Lords where he had previously sat as a Lord Spiritual. He died of cancer in St. Albans in 2000 and is buried in the grounds of St. Albans Cathedral. Archdeacon of Canterbury Jo Kelly-Moore At the left of this section is our present Archdeacon of Canterbury, the Venerable Jo Kelly»Moore, who was installed as Archdeacon on 22 January 2017. Jo had been Dean of Auckland since 2011 and was involved in the ministw of Auckland diocese for 10 years before that. As Dean of Auckland, she led a £9,000,000 project to complete and consecrate Holy Trinity Cathedral there. The Bishop of Auckland described Jo as a person of care and compassion; a person of vision and enthusiasm; and a person who has absolute faith in the resurrection of Christ. Here, in Canterbury, she is also acting as Vice-Dean and, together with the Archdeacons of Ashford and Maidstone, Jo holds a senior position assisting the Bishop of Dover in leading the Diocese and is responsible for the Deaneries of Canterbury, Thanet, Reculver, East Bridge and West Bridge, supporting the clergy and communities. As our Archdeacon, Jo has taken a close and productive interest in the Benefice, supporting them as they crafted their parish profile during the last period of vacancy and overseeing the process which led to Revd. Estella Last’s appointment here as incumbent in January 2018. Jo is also a Residentiary Canon with a key role in the life of Canter- bury Cathedral and a member of Chapter which oversees the Cathedrals day to day management. Below the images of Archbishop Runcie and Archdeacon Kelly—Moore is the very simple prayer that Michael and Elizabeth agreed was totally appropriate for “Tom's Window”: ‘Trust in God for God has a reason for everything’ 35 Mike So|e's Nailbourne Ward web www.cant|ibdem.org.uk - email info@cant|ibdem.org.uk Printed by Truprint Media. Continental Approach, Westwood Industrial Estate, Margate, Kent. CT9 4JG Published and promoted by Nigel Whitburn on behalf of Canterbury & Coastal Liberal Democrats, all at 1 New Street, Ash, Canterbury. Highland Court — an update Since our last Focus, The Barham Downs Action Group (BDAG) has reformed to fight any large scale development at Highland Court. 'z.r;(l~ll;11t(l 1115*" Court Farm ii 1 1 ,_ ’ ‘ r -.. c\- “ ~“" W 43% ..t-W’ « ‘ ‘K .. 'v‘; Lib Dem campaigners are celebrating they might l0Se the Ohly evehihg bus thF0U8h the U-turn by Conservative the Emam Va"eY- nflilln calls ("\iI'J "DFNAC it‘ rnfirwixrfrx ‘F:rT|r'\+ COUHCIIIOTS tnat tnreateneu rural DUS services, including the evening service of the Number 17, serving Barham, Kingston, Bishopsbourne and Bridge. Mike Sole said, ''It has been a worrying few weeks since Kent County Council (KCC) announced that 74 essential bus routes were under threat. Local residents were shocked that Car Parking Charges at “As the official opposition on KCC the Liberal Democrats campaigned against these cuts forcing the Conservatives to think again. It beggars belief that they even thought about making these cuts in the first place. The council's own report said that this cuts would particularly affect the disabled, older people and carers." Bekesbourne Station Liberal Democrats have slammed the decision by South Eastern Railways to introduce car parking charges at Bekesbourne Station from 2January 2018. We believe that this will both penalise local commuters and also cause parking chaos around the station as passengers seek to avoid the charges. Mike Sole said, ”This is short sighted and money grabbing. Our rail fares are already high and this just adds the cost. Nowhere has the local community been considered in these changes” Bekesbourne Parish « “ ’ Councillor Graham ‘ Duplock and Mike Sole are opposing parking charges at Bekesbourne Station The only update that we can provide is that nothing is happening except that the lorries continue to churn up and rut the ground, the drivers continue to litter to the verges and Kent County Councillors continue to take their 15% pay rises. u u I I I \\.. av-n. .JwII\aI, ._a..«: n\..u nu - yum] -.u no... any proposal that may be submitted to the City Council. We have hundreds of residents backing the group and the funds and expertise to argue the case against the development. "It is important that we work to protect our Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty from concrete and congestion.” Lay-by update We would love to be able to bring you an update on the state of the lay—bys at the top of Bishopsbourne. EEIIIIIIIUII SGT IJGTK plan madness Canterbury City Council is to spend £9 million on multi-storey car park next to Canterbury West Station for just 380 cars, while, at the same time, it is slashing council services such as street cleaning, removal of weeds and graffiti, museums and grants to voluntary organisations. ‘With thousands of new homes coming in the district the council should not be looking at ways to drive more traffic into the city centre, resulting in increased congestion and pollution", says Cllr Michael Dixey. "What the city needs is an integrated transport strategy incorporating a commuter park & ride service from the existing car parks to both train stations, not an expensive, ugly building with the sole function of charging residents high car parking fees.” Government failing to fix rural broadband crisis The Liberal Democrats have piled pressure on wny can't tney tidy up: Months of work on the A2 has notjust lead to large volumes of heavy traffic being diverted through Bridge, but also left the area around Coldharbour Lane, near Bridge and Bishopsbourne, in a total mess. "Whilst we welcome the essential repairs to the A2, the total disregard for the local environment by contractors is dreadful.” Says Mike Sole. ”Signs have been left dumped by the road side, cones strewn along the verges and the traffic bollard at the top of the hill remains broken for nearly a year.” In an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty we expect more care to be taken and greater respect given to the countryside. Could you help the FOCUS team? The Lib Dems are continuing to fight for a raga éiélln--IZIIC CT I III I I I I a The Liberal Democrats have piled pressure on the government to improve broadband services for rural areas like Bishopsbourne. Liberal Democrat peers put down a series of amendments to the Telecommunications Infrastructure Bill that would have incentivised internet providers to deliver connections to the more isolated areas of England and Wales. The UK currently lags behind 19 European countries, 17 of them in the European Union when it comes to average internet speeds. The government shot down all the amendments meaning we will face a continued future of low speed internet and stymied business opportunities. ‘2 ---------------..-----iC---------------------------------------------- Have an issue? 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II-’ ITII vwvw.cant|ibdem.org.uk The Lib Dems are continuing to fight for a download speed of 30mbs as a standard across the country Mike Sole said, "This government have failed again and again to deliver high speed internet for many residents of Nailbourne. "Rural broadband is vital to ensuring local businesses can remain competitive and local residents can stay connected. it is shameful that the government would choose to ignore our plight. "The Liberal Democrats have fought for changes locally and nationally which would have seen the whole of the UK better connected, but the Tories have dug their heels in every step of the way." FOCUS team? All our campaigning is done by volunteers. Whether you can help out for several weeks, orjust a few hours, we need you! There is lots you can help us with including delivering leaflets, talking to voters or helping out with office admin. Your help will make a huge difference. Just give Mike Sole a call on 01227 830161 or email mikeso|e|ibdem@hotmail.co.uk to see how you might be able to help! Name .................................................................... .. Telephone ........................................................ _. Postcode ......................................................... .. El I can give about 1 hour a month to deliver FOCUS in my area El I would like a posterto show my support for the FOCUS team Return this slip to: Canterbury Lib Dems, FREEPOST RRLJ-CXSC-CLRC, Canterbury CT1 2QU I)esigncd and printed by the Design & Print Centre, University of Kent 103150‘ April 2006 Hanging the restored treble Contrary to popular belief, ringing does not generally call for a great deal of physical effort. Today most bells are mounted on ball bearings and swing very easily. Before they were renovated, Bekesbournes bells were hung in a traditional way and did require a lot of effort! They are now much easier to ring. The adoption of the whole wheel made it possible for ringers to vary the order in which the bells rang. Ringing in order from the lightest bell (the treble) down to the heaviest (the tenor) in descending scale is ringing ‘rounds’.The bells are numbered from 1 (treble) to tenor. To vary the ringing, the captain calls the number of two adjacent bells upon which these two bells change places, by one ringer speeding up his bell and the other retarding his. A whole series of different changes may be rung until the bells are finally ‘called’ back to ringing in rounds. Call—changes are a popular form ofringing, particularly in Devon and Cornwall. However, in the seventeen century, a Cambridge printer named Fabian Stednian became absorbed in the mathematics of the va1'iati()ns possible on a given number of bells.The order of ringing of four bells could be changed twenty—four times Without repetition, on six bells, 720 times while on eight bells it was 40,320. Stedman wrote the first book on ringing in 1668, and in this and in Cm1ipr1iz0l0gir1, published nine years later, he describes the art of ll) The first four bells, together with the new frame and all fittings cost £2454 1-5, less a credit of£23~17—5 for the two old bells, which were given in exchange. Six years later the two treble bells cost /;85—10v4. These six bells have been rung regularly since the end of the 19th century, silenced only in times of war, when they would have sounded out to signal an enemy inVasion.They have summoned the village to Sunday services, rung at times ofnational or local celebration and tolled at funerals and times of sadness. Most recently they have rung in the new millenium (and would have celebrated the 200th anniversary of Trafalgar Day, if they l1adn’t been under restoration) and were tolled during the foot and mouth crisis. One local vicar has pointed out that is difficult to think ofa more effective way in which only six people can so loudly proclaim their Christian faith! St Peters is the only church in the Bridge benefice of five churches with bells hung for change ringing. So in 2003, an enthusiastic village group decided to raise inoney to restore the bells, to preserve them for future generations and encourage new ringers to Join the Bekesbonrne bell ringers The Art of Change Ringing The history of bells as a means of communication, both religious and secular, goes back many centuries. Although bells have occasionally been used to signal disaster, in most countries they are associated with the call to prayer in churches and places of worship. The art of change ringing is peculiar to England, and today there are more than 40,000 ringers in the UK, with smaller numbers in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Southern Africa and the USA.They are young and old, men and women short and tall, girls and boys, non- musical and musical, church—goers and non—church—goers.They come from all walks of life, but they share a fascinating hobby and a commitment to their team. Until the fourteenth century church bells, here and abroad, were normally hung on a single spindle and chimed by pulling a rope attached to the spindle. About that time, ringers began to experiment with new ways of hanging the bell to give them greater control.The first improvement was made by mounting the bell, not directly to a spindle, but to a wooden quarter wheel, the spindle serving as an axle with the rope attached to the rim of the wheel. A further improvement evolved by mounting the bell on a half wheel, giving even more control.This was the situation in most churches up to the reign of Henry VIII, when most parish churches had two or three bells and larger churches and monasteries had eight or even ten. The bells before restoration 8 g5 :12: 5,. Eu 23 55 32 . 52 5:2 :5 35 2 it O- ‘‘s‘ *5 r E 130?‘ 3 “‘ ...I|_;l 13 digs, age! l.a.I E2 Ir 32‘: .51 Ens 5: as 5 mg -0 Kim >- In »= xii 3'2 fie gs E "0 c» ..?g' éa 8:» §;: 32 2: W Q ,. ROPE PASSES « CASTIRON HEADSTOCK maoucu WHEEL Rlf"\"\ \X/hitechapel Bell Foundry diagram of Full—circle bell ringing SLIDER PIN d Bet; IN THE “DowN' Posmoru nope msssscwsn PULL!-Z1’ mo UNDER WHEEL J Bg,t7UPfAT'HANosrneK£ AT7£§»>._cJ9_I39K__£ ' &a.L._L.'L!e', U: , . ; :_ v~4 "_ ‘v V )’ ' ,5 .' ' ‘T V: . - - 4 - . , V W - . ' I - . _,.. z 4 ' O- . , . . ’__ , ;, - K. v .‘._ _ ‘ _ ._ _ " .: B» ' _ l ’ ~ , ‘R’ 4 , 1 ’ H -. ~4V~ - ‘ - J .l’‘ I _ "’,‘.~* gs: .V'W_{/ Qetfer’s ufl ‘ 1 ._i._'; W: 5. In 1; ;_ .v )1: v. ,5; ~ fCh1.1_’r'chx, B¢;{%§Sb3fi1:he;¢fT.orth _ ‘T “( side . "H The treble bell before restoration ba11d.The bells had received very little attention for over a hundred years, were hung on their original fittings and had become increasingly difficult to ring. In 2005, the bells were lowered and transported to the bell hangers Whites of Appleton in Oxfordshire for renovatio1i.Whites sent them back to the Whitechapel Bell Foundry for re—tuning before they were returned to Bekesbourne. The weight of the tenor bell is now 7cwt Zqrs 16 lbs and it is tuned to A natural minus 47/100 of a semi—tone. In February 2006, they were re—hung onto the original, but strengthened, oak bell frame, with modern fittings and renovated bell wheels.The canons (the loops at the top of the bells) were retained under the new galvanised headstocks, which replaced the original wooden ones. Bishop Michael Turnbull re—dedicated the bells at a service of thanksgiving in April, celebrating the successful end of the project to renovate both the bells and the church’s historic organ. The restoration of the bells was achieved by generous donations from national charities and many local people and cost over ,€35,()0O.A list of the major donors hangs in the church tower. Each bell now has a small brass plate fixed to its new headstock recording that it has been restored in 2005 with the help of ‘The Friends of Bekesbourne Church’ (treble),‘Local Donations’ (3rd bell), ‘ The Heritage Lottery Fund’ (2nd 4th 8c 5th bells) and ‘The Kent County Association of Change Ringers’ (tenor bell). The restored bells awaiting re—hanging One result of the Reformation was the destruction of much church property and the silencing or even removal of many church bells. Later repair and restoration often necessitated the rehanging of the bells and the lessons of the quarter and half wheel were not forgotten. The opportunity was now present to complete the experiment by using the whole wheel and it was in this manner that most bells were eventually re—hung. The final refinement came when the slider and stay were added, enabling the ringer to halt the bells movement at will or re—start it equally quickly. By pulling harder on the rope as the bell swung upwards, the ringer could check it as it reached its upside—down position and ease it gently off balance, resting against the slider, where it would remain until required to sound again. This is known as ‘setting’ the bell, and it is the use of this technique that paved the way for the development of change—ringing in England. Interestingly, other countries in Europe did not adopt this way of hanging, apart from a few towers in Belgium, and they eventually moved towards purely mechanical methods of ringing.These bells do not swing and are called carillons or chimes.The striking of the clappers is controlled by one person (or by a computer) and they are capable of playing recognisable tunes. Change ringing, on the other hand, requires specially hung bells and ordinary people who enjoy climbing towers and working as a team. The human ingredient is critical because change ringing is very different from playing a carillon or chime. It is not a single person sitting at a keyboard and involves no computers. Change ringing depends on real bells, each swung in a complete circle by a single person: six bells — six people, eight bells — eight people, usually standing in a circle. The Bells of St Peter’s It was in 1890 that the six bells of St Peters Church were heard ringing out over the village for the first time. Before 1884, there were only two bells in the tower, of unknown age. Like many churches, St Peters had fallen into some disrepair in the 19th century and a print of 1817 seems to show the tower in ruins. However, it was rebuilt in 1841 and further restoration was completed later in the century by the Vicar, the Rev. Henry J Wardell. This included, in 1884, the gift of four new bells for the church from the Gipps family, who owned Howletts from about 1820 to 1910.The Gipps were major benefactors of St Peters, giving not only the bells, but also the lych gate at the churchyard entrance and several items of communion silver, as well as contributing to the refurbishment and stained glass. Four years later, two more bells were added, with the new treble hung above the other new bell (the 2nd Rumour has it that the tower was raised by two feet at that time, to make room for them in the very cramped space in the bell chamber. The bells are each inscribed MEARS 8: STAINBANKAX/HITECHAPEL FOUNDRY, LONDON, 1890 or 1884. The tenor bell has the added inscription OF YOUR CHARITY PRAY FOR JANE GIPPS THEYOUNGER WHO GAVE THESE BELLS TO THE GLORY OF GOD. MDCCCLXXXIV HENRY JOHN \X/ARDELL M.A.VlCAR 1817 print showing the tower in ruins ringing and draws up rules or procedures which enable long series of changes to be rung without the need for anyone to ‘call’. As a result of Stedman’s groundwork and the addition of further rules, a whole series of changes could be worked out in advance, written down and learned by heart. Such a series was called a ‘method’ and many were given names which are still in use today. lt was also decided that 5,000 or more changes should be called a ‘peal’. It was also necessary to add a name to the method to denote how many bells were to be used. On methods rung on five bells, for instance, the name is Doubles; on six bells, Minor; on seven bells,Triples.Thus the method called Gmndsive is Grandsire Doubles if rung on five bells and Grcmdsire Triples on seven. lfyou enjoy being part ofa team, providing a service to the church, a good social life and continually learning something new, why not take up bell ringing? The band at Bekesbourne welcomes new ringers.There is one practice evening each week and ringing before Sunday services, as well as at festivals and weddings. Even as a novice ringer, you will be made welcome at any tower you visit throughout the country! ' -\ Hoisting the restored 4th bell [._,_ fiL ,4 44 [__‘ F“ A f”_ ["7 ['4 l_"' Cricket at Bourne Park Ian Lambert CONTENTS Acknowledgements ................................................ ..3 Chapter 1 - The Early Years .................................... ..4 Chapter 2 - After Sir Horace ................................... ..9 Appendix A : Friends of Bourne Paddock ........... ..17 Appendix B : Mozart in the Park .......................... ..18 Appendix C : Bibliography ..................................... ..19 Cricket in 1773 CHAPTER 1 - THE EARLY YEARS Cricket today owes much to early wealthy patrons of the game and Sir Horatio (Horace) Mann (pictured right) was in this category and instrumental in the development of both cricket in Kent and further afield. At the age of 21 in 1765, he had succeeded to the estates at Boughton Malherbe and Linton upon the death of his father with an inheritance of £100,000 and had married Lady Lucy Noel. In the same year he moved to Bourne Place, Bishopsbourne, Nr.Canterbury, where he laid out a cricket ground in the Park to create a centre of cricketing excellence. He later moved to Dandelion, Margate where he established another ground. He was MP for Maidstone from 1774 until 1784 and MP for Sandwich from 1790 to 1807. An early visitor was in July 1765, when a young Mozart, aged nine, on his first visit to England with his family, spent about a week at Bourne Park at the invitation of Horace Mann. The child prodigy had previously toured Europe and played at the Royal Courts in London and Vienna. One visit included the Canterbury races on Barham Downs and it is safe to assume that Mozart would have been introduced to the game of cricket. In 1766 the Bourne Club was formed and the early years were largely spent in playing other Kent clubs. This involved the team in travelling by horse and cart to venues such as Cranbrook, Chatham, Wrotham, Dartford and Tenterden. While maintaining the club side, the venue also hosted seventeen matches between 1772 and 1790 which were accorded first class status. Kent played on ten occasions, Sir H. Mann's XI v The Duke of Dorset’s XI twice, England twice, East Kent v West Kent and two interesting matches A to M v N to 2 with the initials of the players’ surnames determining which XI they played for. Simmons Extras TOTAL Palmer Auften Armftead Greenfield Wollet Whibble The keeping of scores and records is today very sophisticated, but this was not always the case. In the early days runs were recorded by "notches” carved on sticks and basic information was not included. For example the scorecard of the match between Bourne and Chatham is reproduced above and does not include the bowling figures, catchers’ names or fall of wickets. Bourne won by seven wickets and Horace Mann played a significant role in that victory, scoring b Wollet (all out) 0 ? ? ? ? ? M ? ? . ? ? ? R W Wides NO—Bal|s O M R W Wides No-Balls ? 1 — - - — - — - - ? 4 — - ? ? ? 1 - — ? 1 - — - - - — - - ? 1 - - - _ _ - _ - ‘P 2 - - ? ? ? 1 - — — — — — ? ? ? 1 — — 42 (5) not out 5 Extras 130 TOTAL (3 wickets) 23 in the second innings. CRICKETING. On MONDAY next, the lglh Xn(lan(, will be played In BOURN PADDOCK, HE NOBLEMEN and GENTLE- MEN‘: GRAND MATCH of caxcxzr, For Two Thoufand GUINEAS. The following are the Gentlemen than play on each Side; the Othtf SEVEN are not yet fixed upon, but are so be the be(\ PLAYERS that can be picked out of the Cwo Counties. . The W I c u : 1 a to be pitched at Ten o'clock. _ F. F. N T. S L) R 171 V. H-5 One: Lord TANKERVILLE. D ‘The!-Ian. Mr, DEBUR CH‘ STONE, Efqg LEWIS, Efq; Sir HORACE MANN, ———- DAVIS, Efq; _.—. HUSSEY. Efq, There will be a Grand Stand ctccled as ufual ; and 3 9064 Ordinary at (ht Paopocg, Providad by Nix‘, FAu.r.:Y. at the Four-rAxr4-Inn. CA:-rennuur. Pcofile are dcfired to keep their Dogs at Horne, o(hQr_ wife I (.7 will be 0}-sot, as at the lat’! Match they 3;-cady n».(o...pT—.4 rhn Plavrrq. COMMEMORATIVE HANDKERCHIEF SHOWING CRICKET AND THE LAWS OF THE GAME. SIR HORACE MANN PICTURED TOP RIGHT. Circa 1785. In 1774 Horace was involved with the revision of the early Laws of Cricket (1744) including the lbw law. Sadly his wife died in 1778 following a long illness and his consolation was cricket and travelling. Throughout the 1780's grand matches were held, with lavish entertainment for large numbers of invited guests. His recruitment of quality players for both Kent and the Bourne Club continued, including James Aylward, who when playing for Hampshire batted over three days to score a record 167 against England. He played for four years from 1780 until he became landlord of the local White Horse Inn. He combined his landlord duties, which included catering at Bourne Paddock, with his playing career. He had also been a bailiff for Sir Horace but had no experience. During this period Kent featured regularly at Bishopsbourne with Hambledon being the most regular visitors. In 1786 a high scoring match was played against White Conduit C.C. The match was played for 1,000 guineas by his Grace the Duke of Dorset and Sir Horace Mann against the Earl of Winchelsea and the Hon. Mr Monson. The visitors batted first scoring 183 with T.Wa|ker carrying his bat for 95*. Kent replied with 218. R. Stanford, born at East Peckham and a leading amateur batsman of his day, top scored with 73, the highest of his career. Walker continued his fine form in Conduit’s second innings with a century and T.Taylor scored 117 in a total of 296. Kent could only muster 97 with Clifford 41 and Collier 35, thus losing by 164 runs. In the 1780's, Sir Horace was wagering large sums of money on matches, was heavily in debt and his generosity could not be sustained. In 1790 he relocated to Dandelion and transferred his cricketing interests away from Bourne Park and in 1808 he was declared bankrupt. His interest in cricket never wavered and his input to the game was considerable. He died in 1814. Division 4 (1979) Division 3 (1980) and Division 2 (1990). The club played its last season in Division 2 in 1999. For a few years the recreation ground was used by Exiles at Bridge CC who had no link with the outgoing Bridge CC. There was a gap of two years before cricket was revived at the Paddock by the efforts of the Pedagogues Cricket Club, a team of teachers from the Canterbury Technical College and School, who played there from 1970 to 1978, changing their name to Bourne Park CC in 1974. The name of Bourne Park CC disappeared in198O after occasional games had been played. The ground was then taken over by St. Lawrence and Highland Court, where their 3"" and 4"‘ X|'s played, but they left the Paddock in 1987, the year of the great storm. Clear Up after the great storm. Photo taken in 1988, showing two toilets added and storage shed during tenure of St. Lawrence & Highland Court. The Canterbury District of the Association of Kent Cricket Clubs initiated proposals to safeguard the future of the ground with an emphasis on youth cricket. They were supported by the owner, Mr. Richard Neame, the Sports Council, the Kent Playing Fields Association and more than 100 ”Friends of Bourne Park” (see Appendix A) and the sponsorship of Reeves and Neylan (now Kreston Reeves). 10 Brian Luckhurst, Richard Ellison and Alan igglesden, and an AKCC Canterbury District Xi captained by Clinton Wells of St. Lawrence and Highland Court CC. The Teams, Officials and Patrons. A GRAND MATCH PL.‘\YED IN BOURNE PADDOCK To mark xii: i'C-|\f‘k'.'ll.'x_1',\7l‘i1!‘.'(fi(;I\:l Ground $}’i)\'\UR!‘.i) BY REEYE5 <‘§£‘-IYLJW On Spring Holiday Monday 29th May 1989 at 2.00pm I')I’E.\'l.\'(jl‘E.RIi.\(O.\’YAI i ‘~;~rn A.K.C.C. XI V KENT C.C.C. XI \'i.\.\". Li-’..‘i7'.1'.‘x' l>Z*lRlL T .\hrk Dubsor . .:‘..1!...' .r‘ ..\~‘.’a' ~ ' akin r 5: um--...e:y H.-x..r,,-.‘.. l'm;=ir:s Don :\nS1Cd and R08‘ Mziia Scum: Eddi: .\\.C.51"< \\:v .2: pun»! um: n.u..;= .x.r.-.-..v.:.-: bun: x..ie~. '«,.;~m. am x~.m -x-,—u r.:: .. .1 m-.»e~: M -r.» .x u r l_ u.~.- ~..\ 11.».-..<. ;\':.r".An,- 2.. \'».~.- ..: 12 [7 F‘, on the 28”‘ July 1991, the ground hosted a 40—overs match between Kent and Sussex over-50's marking the visit of Mozart to Bourne Park in July 1765 and in aid of the Canterbury Umbrella charity. The proceedings were opened by E.W.Swanton, with Brian Luckhurst (Kent) and Ken Suttie (Sussex) opening the batting for their respective sides. Kent won the match by 43 runs and it was followed by an open-air concert of music by Mozart. A copy of the programme of events is attached as Appendix B. E.W.Swanton B.W.Luckhurst The following photo is of the match in progress. 14 The area has been rich in historical finds over the centuries, including the early medieval and anglo saxon periods. 2011 was the start of an ongoing geophysical and topographical survey, with the focus on the cricket ground, on the basis that Roman coins and other artefacts had been found in the area, and crop marks indicated the possibility of a Roman building. IAN LAMBERT ”When an old cricketer leaves the crease You never know whether he's gone If sometimes you're catching a fleeting glimpse of a twelth man at silly mid-on And it could be Geoff, and it could be John With a new—ball sting in his tail And it could be me, and it could be thee.” Roy Harper 16 FO 4_ r__ APPENDIX B: MOZART IN THE PARK Cricket in t/zeffaoooclz Moza rt in ii: e Pa r/2 at Bourne Park, [Bis/zopsoourne on Sunoay 28!}: July 1991 Cjroumls open at 12 noon 0 3(1)‘ 0 Cjranb f.7ombola 0 Wiloerness Wail: (flmple flee parking «mo space for your picnic ) Crickef Mate/2, introouceo 53/ E. W. 5n?an(on Kent Over 50s versus Sussex Over 50s Home-nmoe Cream gees 0 ,‘Barlrecue Open flir Concen‘ ofMozarl music by the ,B'eauforf Ensemfle in the garoen offourne Park House. (Seating is not profiibeo) Entrance 53; programme only 0 Qzlbulfs f5 0 Senior Citizens £3 C/1il3renun3er14 £3 0 C/zilflren um)er5 Free Bvgrammes from the gate on I/ze Bay 1,, mg of" CANTERBURY UMBRELLA A community support centre for the City of Canterbury 18 APPENDIX C: BIBLIOGRAPHY Various Association of Kent Cricket Clubs Year Books. Cricket Grounds of Kent by Howard Milton. A Social History of English Cricket by Derek Birley. More Than a Game by John Major. Start of Play by David Underdown. The Great Match of Cricket— All England V Hampshire (1772) by Nikky Baker. The Great Match of Cricket— Kent V Surrey (1773) by Nikky Baker. Kentish Gazette. Kentish Express. 19 APPENDIX A: FRIENDS OF BOURNE PADDOCK The 1st Hundred Friends of Bourne Paddock Jaek Freeman R iehard Marshall C olirr R elf Richard F agg Clive M edhitrst Keith Denham Lad_v]uliet M rS omersett-de-C hair Mike Goddard Lionel I I urrtble Claud F oad Mike G iuntini Bill Cotton ]analltan Buck/turst _7ohn Downing Robert Pritchard Pat Pritcltard David Shersby Horace Smith Charles Harris John Williams Kent C ouuty Cricket Club Brian Luckhurst Tom Pearce Bernard Quinton—]ones Peter Deans David H eald Brian Wanstall Keir Buckhurst Colin Buckhurst John Peirson Martin Ashton Derek Fawhe Martin ooker H ewitts Frank Perkins Alan Fisher M atthew Brodie Robert Prestige Sam Thomlry David Durell David Walters Roger Drmn ]ohn Mathews G my Laslett Bob Graves Graham George John Moon Giles Brealy Graham Ralph Tenterden 1.awer H alstaw Bishopsbourne H arlrledowu Bridge ~ . Wrotham Heath Bourne House Boume House Gaston Alton W estzvell Barlram V C anterbury Bridge H erne Bay I I erne Bay I l erne Bay Canterbury M alvern B lean Heathfield A lkham M eopharn Chestfield Edenbridge H arbledozvu H arbledown New York N eve York Barham Rotterdam Bridge F trusted C aruerlrmy B ishopbounte Kingston Bridge B ishopsbourne Bekesboume Adisham Canterlrury Ash B arham Ash Ash C hestfield C hestfield H erne Bay Heme Bay 17 jartette Buckhurst Stuart Buckhurst Dick N ickalls janathan Atkinson R0dgerStocks H envy Fuller Lewis Fuller Andrew Buckhurst ]ohn Walton Ann Walton A nne N eame Richard N eame Pauline Mclfwau David H aigh Leslie Din nage David F arbrace Betty F arbrace Paul Box-Grainger Dan A nsted ]arnes Cross Peter Dee Gillian Dee Peter Livesey l’eterSmith Melbourne High School Eddie M cCabe Michael Roberts ]im F olwell John Line David Sims Dick Laslett Street End C rieket Club Rabin Baker—White Mark Baker-White Donald Limo» Two Counties Youth Cricket Phillipa Davies M ansell]agger Alan Albury Bob Bolton Pamjannan Selhent Cricket Club Norman Walton (Adscene) Simon Warley Wendy Venton David Venton Vanessa Scales M ark C haloner Don Hunter H awkinge Cricket Club London Londart Canterbury Swindon Wamiinster Wanninster Warminster Bristol Wrotham Wrotham Bishopsbounte Bishopsbourne Canterbury Wickharnbreaux B ishopsboume Ash 9 Ash Canterbury Canterbury Barham Canterbury Canterbury Blean Dover Ash Martin Temple Ewell S tuny Kingsdowrt Ash Lower H ardres Lower H ardres London Surrey Canterbury C auterbury Tenterden Thauet Thanet London Transport Canterbury Rough Common Kingston Kingston Whitstable W almer Canterbury __ ,_J L_J ~_J __J The ground was available for hire by Clubs and youth teams throughout the Association and in the first year a number of youth and Club matches were held. There was optimism during the 90's with improvements very much in mind. In 2000 it was reported that the ground was regularly used by Canterbury Choughs (formerly Kingsmead), Barham and Wickham & Stodmarsh. The Choughs were the club in residence and were hoping to implement ground and pavilion improvements. Sadly this was to be the final year of cricket at the Paddock. The effective obituary was contained in the 2001 AKCC Year Book, as follows: "Of special concern is what is to become of the picturesque ground at Bourne Paddock? The AKCC had high hopes of extending the ground lease (due to expire next year) in liaison with the Canterbury Choughs Club, but because of lack of commitment and manpower and the high cost of upkeep, the Club left at the end of the 2000 season, and will not be back. The Wickham & Stodmarsh, Barham and St. Lawrence Colts clubs, who used the ground as well, have also made alternative arrangements. The landlord, Richard Neame, wishes cricket to continue at Bourne Paddock, but the pitch, outfield and pavilion are in poor state and a considerable amount of money is needed to make it fit for players and spectators. Efforts to persuade the County club to help have failed and unless a club is found to take responsibility for the ground (a vain hope) the District faces a hopeless task.” The pavilion and roller (pictured) remained as a poignant reminder. 15 Mr Richard Neame performs the official reopening The first match in full swing. The sheep graze peacefully in the background amongst a few cottages built around the time of Mann. The bright green roof of the navilion tent takes the focal noint. An estimated crowd of 500 saw the Kent XI score 261-9 off 40 overs (Paul Farbrace 77, Alan Ealham 44) with the AKCC being dismissed for 177 (Toby Amos 48). 13 c_,e,_i .__#J __J ,__i //1— L to R: Berna rd Quinton—Jones (AKCC President), Hugh Buckhurst (Management Ctte. Chairman), Richard Fagg (AKCC Treasurer), Michael Stewart and James Cross (Reeves and Neylan) Months of hard work was required following the great storm to restore Bourne Park to its former glory, with an estimated £8000 being spent on improvements. The square being cut in October 1988 On the 29”‘ May 1989 the ground hosted a Grand Opening Match between a Kent CCC XI, captained by Alan Ealham and including England players 11 -__l ,_.J __s.l _.J __J ,_#J ..._J CHAPTER 2 - AFTER SIR HORACE Little information is available during the 1800's but it is probable that the Paddock was in use, as cricket was being played nearby at places such as Canterbury, Chartham and Lower Hardes. It is possible that even in those days there were difficulties in finding a willing correspondent to submit reports to the local newspapers! During this period Charles William Howard (1823-1908) played one game for Kent against England in 1844, at the Beverley ground. He is believed to be the only person born in Bridge to have played first class cricket for the County. Twice married, he had twelve children and worked as a vet in the village. There is only one reference to cricket being played prior to 1895 when in that year, Bridge CC were then playing at the Paddock and there is a record of them losing to Street End by an innings and 3 runs. They continued until the 1930’s when the name Bourne Park or Paddock appeared, which lasted until 1967, including the 2”“ World War years. Bourne Park batting in the 1960's At this stage, the future of the ground was uncertain due to the threat of the Estate being sold. The club relocated to the recreation ground at Bridge in 1968 and in 1972 became Bourne Paddock and Bridge CC. The following year the name Bourne Paddock was dropped and Bridge CC played friendlies until joining the Kent Village Cricket League. They were Championship winners for 9 Sir Horace however had limited ability as a player and only made a few appearances. In 1773 he played at Bishopsbourne for Kent (63 and 78) against Surrey (77 and 217) which was played for £2,000 with the visitors winning by 153 runs. An advertisement for the match is shown above. He scored 3 and 22 and the game attracted several poems. In the context of the match, the one recording the innings by Sir Horace might be considered somewhat flattering. At last Sir Horace took the field, A batter of great might, l\/lov’d like a lion, he awhile, Put Surrey in a fright. Another poetic contribution described the spectators: From Marsh and Weald their hayforks left, To Bourne the rustics hied, From Romney, Cranbrook, Tenterden, And Durent’s verdant side. An attraction for spectators at Bourne Park was the appearance of leading cricketers of the day who were employed by Sir Horace to play for his team. One such player was Richard Miller who in 1774 scored 95 for Kent against Hampshire which remained Kent's highest score for nearly fifty years. it was not unknown for Hampshire to be recorded as Hambledon as both teams were effectively the same. Horace and Lucy Mann were lavish entertainers and in grand matches provided accommodation for spectators and often hosted magnificent balls and suppers in the evenings. There was however one stipulation ”that dogs should be kept at home, otherwise they would be shot”. In hosting a two-day match between Hampshire and All-England in 1772, seats and benches were around the boundary, with food and drink outlets and grandstands for the local and county dignatories. In excess of 15,000 spectators attended on the first day and England went on to win by one wicket. BOURNE v CHATHAM — 2 Day Match in 1773 at Bourne Paddock CHATHAM First Innings Second Innings Auften b Wheelers 0 b Wheelers Wollet run out 8 c ? b Simmons 2 Clifford b Wheeiers 0 b May 10 Fofter b Wheelers 2 b Wheelers 5 Louch b Davis 36 b May 2 Whiffin c ? b Wheelers 0 b Wheelers 11 Whibble run out 34 b Wheelers 1 Palmer not out 17 b Wheelers Morris b Wheelers 5 not out 5 Greenfield b Miller 13 b Wheelers O Armftead b Wheelers 0 b May 21 Extras 3 Extras 4 TOTAL (all out) 118 TOTAL (all out) 70 O M R W Wides No—Balls O M R W Wides No—Balls Wheelers ? ? ? 6 — — Wheelers ? ? ? 6 — — Davis ? ? ? 1 - - May ? ? ? 3 - — Miller ? ? ? 1 - - Simmons ? ? ? 1 - - BOURNE First Innings Second Innings May c ? b Palmer 13 dnb Wheelers not out 1 dnb H.Mann b Auften (1) b Wollet 23 Sullivan c ? b Auften 7 (2) c ? b Auften 0 J.Davis c ? b Armftead 1 (3) not out 9 Price c ? b Wollet 23 dnb Miller c ? b Greenfield 25 (4) b Whibble 3 Spratt b Auften 4 dnb Fuggles run out 1 dnb Palmer c ? bWol|et 2 dnb ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Much has been documented about the influence of Sir Horace Mann and Bourne Place on cricket in the eighteenth century. However, the early days and the subsequent journey and eventual demise of Bourne Park as a cricketing venue has not to my knowledge been recorded in a single document. its story is contained in various detail and publications and in the memories of cricket lovers from the Canterbury area. This booklet therefore attempts to record the complete history of cricket at Bourne Park and i would apologise for any inaccuracies or omissions. Most of the information has been assembled from books covering the early days and newspapers for the more recent times. I was lucky to find people with first hand knowledge of post war cricket in Bourne Park and i would like to thank the help given from all those I spoke to or emailed and particularly Hugh Buckhurst, John Websper, Peter Elgar, Lacey Wallace,Phd and Kreston Reeves for providing photographs and documents. There has been no attempt to write the histories of Clubs based at Bourne Park or the performances of its players. 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