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The Bergh Apton Newsletter August - September 2016 Issue No. 146

Editorial Comment

Au Revoir Roy Flowerdew

More than half this year has already passed and we have had a successful horse show, making more than £1600, this year, well supported with the fun dog show, thanks to everyone and an enjoyable Fete was surprisingly well attended despite all the inclement wet weather in the morning, please see photos kindly provided by John and Jayne Sayer on center pages accompanied by Queens Birthday celebration photos provided by Lorie Lain Rogers and Liz Meynell. My thanks to all stall holders and customers, as well as those who helped with and attended the Horse Show despite the cold day and strong wind. My thanks also go out to Kip and Alison Bertram for freely and willingly allowing us to use such a fabulous venue, and wasn't it great to see little Amber so active for as she told me, a 2 and a half year old, lovely seeing you all.

Milton Harris (Editor)

In 1991 a good thing happened in Bergh Apton - Roy and Jean Flowerdew moved into the village.

They quickly involved themselves in village activities and Roy soon took a leading role, becoming Chairman of both the Village Hall Committee and the Fete Committee. He later became Secretary of the Parochial Church Council. When the Conservation Trust was formed to administer the recently purchased land Roy served as a Trustee.

Roy displayed his thespian skills to the full in Bergh Apton's Millennium Pageant when he played the part of a yeoman farmer plotting to hide the figures of the Church's Patron Saints, Peter and Paul, from the King's men.

As committee Christians Roy and Jean were in church each Sunday, for many years with Jean at the organ and often with Roy taking the Service. As a Lay Reader, Roy was in great demand to take Services throughout the Benefice; so it was fitting that the congregations of the five parishes were given the opportunity to make contributions towards the gifts (garden vouchers, cycle clips and mouthorgan), sign the card of good wishes and be present when they were given to Roy at the Benefice Service at our Church in June, just a few days after he moved to his new home in Filby. It was an occasion of mixed feelings - we are pleased Roy will be near his family but sad that he has left Bergh Apton for he will be missed in the village he served so well for twenty-five years. Pat Waters

To the Parish Council and everyone who helped with the celebrations for the Queen's

birthday. I went to the Hog roast in the evening. It was so good to be with such a

large and happy gathering.

Eelen Kennedy

Thank You

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THE HAWTHORN TREE ‘Spring goeth all in white,

Crowned with milk-white may;’ Robert Bridges

Almost overnight it seemed Spring had spelled

the hawthorn tree in the hedge and great clouds of white blossom ruffed its branches. The notched leaves switched to a bright leathery green. The anthers are red, like the head of a match, so each flower resembles a speckled bird’s egg. Now, in mid-summer, clutches of small green berries hang on tightly and, as summer ages will, like traffic lights, turn to amber and then red. This is not the enamelled red of rowan berries or the polished sheen of rose hips but a modest, sombre red. Old ballads and legends tell that the hawthorn is a tree of mystery and enchantment, a faerie tree. It is said the crown of thorns with which Christ was mockingly crowned was made from hawthorn. In the Lady Chapel at Ely there is a carving showing Mary with her Child set against a background of hawthorn leaves. Mary holds one haw, a sign of what is to come for the Child. At some Palaeolithic cave dwellers burial sites, the bodies have been found wearing similar crowns of hawthorn.

Mary’s uncle, Joseph of Arimathea, was a merchant trading in tin and, so the stories go, he came to our ancient kingdom, to the West Country to do business with the tin miners. On one occasion, at least, he brought his great nephew, the Boy Jesus with him and this story was known to William Blake, hence the opening words in ‘Jerusalem’,

‘And did those feet in ancient time

Walk upon England’s mountains green? And was the Holy Lamb of God

On England’s pleasant pastures seen?

Glastonbury is an ancient town in Somerset and another legend is that Joseph of Arimathea came here after the Crucifixion of Christ and brought the Cup used at the Last Supper, the Holy Grail of Arthurian legend, with him. He was tired and distressed after his long journey to reach this land. He paused to sleep and thrust his staff into the ground beside him, the hand that held it had smoothed precious oils into the body of Christ

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when it was taken from the Cross. It took root and every year at Christmas it burst into leaf and flowers. It is the humble hawthorn, quickthorn or whitethorn which, in bleak winter, flowers to greet the coming of the Light not the exotic rose or lily. A sprig from the Holy Thorn is sent to the Queen every year so she has it on her table at breakfast time.

The hawthorn tree is believed to be a dwelling place for faeries and an entrance to their country. An ancient ballad from the Borders tells how Thomas the Rhymer or, True Thomas as he is known, sat under a hawthorn, known as the Eildon Tree and the Queen of Faeries rode by in a dress of ‘grass-green silk’ and on her steed’s mane ‘hung fifty silver bells and nine’. She dares him to kiss her lips and, of course, he does. She carries him off as he must now serve her. In Elfland she offers him food which he eats and, as we all know, one must never, never, never, eat food offered by the Little People. When he returns he thinks he has only been away for a day instead of seven long years. It is believed he lives on in the hollow Eildon hills. So do not sit under a hawthorn tree unless you have the protection of a twig each of oak, ash and hawthorn bound together by a red ribbon, as one never knows who might come riding by!

Westminster Abbey is built on what was known as Thorney Island in the River Tyburn and named after a sacred stand of hawthorn trees. Edward the Confessor built a church here and the present building altered and added to by other monarchs was built originally by Henry 111 in 1245.

The Hawthorn is also known as May as this is when it flowers. There is the nursery rhyme, ‘Here we come gathering nuts in May’. This should read as ‘knots’ not ‘nuts’. Sprigs and bunches of hawthorn were gathered in days gone by and even in some places nowadays to celebrate the Merry Month of May.’

Henry vii chose the hawthorn as his emblem after the Battle of Bosworth as the crown worn by Richard iii as he rode to battle was found in a hawthorn after Richard was killed. Henry, the first of the Tudor dynasty,

received this crown on what is known as Crown Hill.

A small tree, a hedge tree, gnarled, twisted and thorny, crabbed. It bends and knots, spiky bones knitted together against wind and weather. It endures.

Pat Mlejnecky

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Pat Mlejnecky concluded her piece in the previous (May/June 2016) edition of the newsletter with the observation “Many of these graffiti are time worn and it needs a very sharp eye to see them. Just think, to be able to stand where someone else stood five, six, seven hundred years ago and touch the symbol he carved is to be hand in hand with him”.

That rings a loud bell with me in the context of our own church, for we have at least two examples of the phenomenon. One of them, indeed, is one that Pat herself discovered (well, no one else has ever remarked on it!) during rehearsals for the superb “Midwinter Dreaming” play in the church in January and February this year.

It’s a mark - clearly deliberate but of odd form - scratched into the slate paving slab at the foot of the pulpit steps. This photo (with the foot of the pulpit steps at the top right-hand corner) shows it clearly. But it doesn’t explain it.

Is it two capital letters? If that’s so, could it be a name? The second letter is clearly a V. But is first one an N or, perhaps, a W? But whose name? And why was it scratched there? And when?

Those questions “why?” and “when?” are the one I ask myself every time I look at the other piece of graffiti. It’s clearly visible every time you leave the church if you look at the right-hand jamb of the main door out to the south porch, just below th top hinge of the door.

The photo shows that, unlike the quire crude scratch-mark on the slate floor, this is a good example of the carver’s art, cut into the faced block of limestone. It looks to be the numerals 6612 carved in a style of calligraphy (particularly the 1) of quite ancient characteristics.

But, again, when was it carved? And what does it mean? Is it, for example, a date? Perhaps the 6th of June in the twelfth year of one of the many centuries this principle church entrance has existed. That certainly is a possibility except that there are no gaps where you would expect there to be gaps between the 6th day of the month and the 6th month.

Are you tempted, perhaps, to wonder if it is evidence that our ancestors possessed mobile phones with security access codes? Hmmm, perhaps a little too fanciful!

But I come back to what Pat wrote; “Just think, to be able to stand where someone else stood five, six, seven hundred years ago and touch the symbol he carved is to be hand in hand with him”. That’s just what I do. And, though I do wonder about the why,

Bergh Apton Church Graffiti

the when and the who of these symbols, their significance - to me anyway - is that satisfying sense of being hand-in-hand with the people who have both congregated in and worked on this interesting and unique building - this parish church of this ancient village of ours.

Scratch graffiti at the foot of the pulpit steps - “WV”, perhaps?

The numerals 6612 carved on the jamb of the south porch door.

John Ling

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We have surveyed almost three-quarters of Bergh Apton’s churchyard to set down the details of, and to photograph, every headstone that we can find. When completed, this project will result in a record - and a plan - to show where each headstone is, what it looks like, and who is buried there. This Bergh Apton History Group effort will, in time, be available both in BALHG’s archive and on the internet.

Whether we complete the physical work (recording the wording on each headstone) this year is rather dependent on the weather and a date when we can get a team together to do the final stretch of the churchyard. It may take another 6 months thereafter - dependant on manpower - to complete the paperwork and publish the results.

One of the challenges facing the recording team is the clarity of headstone lettering. When erected these incisions would have a clear and sharp series of letters and numbers to tell us something of the person buried there: a name; with a date of death; age; and, sometimes, an epitaph. Later, perhaps, a wife, husband or a son or daughter was buried in a grave and so another name and its details would be added.

With growth in popularity of hard surfaces like polished granite in recent years, these headstone records will last, albeit in rather grim and shiny rows, for many hundreds of years. The granite has replaced traditional materials like “Barnack Rag” a Lincolnshire limestone that was used for headstones in many Norfolk churchyards down the centuries. Though the limestone markers created a more gentle and attractive assembly to mark our village predecessors they do have a serious flaw in that they suffer badly from erosion and encourage the growth of lichens. The latter can obscure inscriptions and the former can make the task of reading them at worst impossible and, at best, a challenge.

But people who want to read headstone inscriptions do have a trick up their sleeves in the form of sunlight because, dependent on the angle at which the sun falls on the carved inscriptions, their hollows create shadows that, quite literally out of the blue, make previously unreadable letters as plain as a pikestaff.

I thought it might interest you to see what I mean. Here are two photographs of a headstone a little to the

northeast of the east wall of the chancel. The darker of these two images is one I took because, in May this year, I couldn’t read anything of the stone’s inscription. I hoped to enlarge the photo on my computer and, hopefully, make some sense of it.

I did eventually make some headway when, with a lot of squinting, I decided that the date looked like 1824. Looking through my copy of the Burial Register from August 1813 to September 1918* I found only three burials that year, one of whom was Thomas Hubbard who died on 8th December and was buried four days later on 12th December. Turning back to the image I was able to convince myself that this was, indeed, the name and the date on the gravestone.

A TRICK OF THE LIGHT

Bingo . . . job done! Triumphantly I entered a caption on the photo “Hubbard, Thomas (December 1824)” and transferred the image to my computer folder from which the publication will eventually take its images. And guess what I found therein . . . taken eleven years ago? You’re right – I found a clearly readable image of the same headstone!

Why are they so different? The answer is “sunlight”. I took the first photo at 2.45 pm on 27th October (in 2005). It was a time of day and a season when the sun would have been quite low down in the sky and with that cold intensity of a winter day, would have fallen bright at about a 450 angle onto the west-facing headstone. It was 2.00 pm on 5th May this year that I took the second photo, with the sun was high in the sky and at a much more oblique angle. It is that variation in the angle that makes all the difference in readability.

So what does this tell us? Well, the key thing is that, to get best results, we’ll need to schedule our next survey of the churchyard as late in the year as we can. But there’s another thing too; let’s not leave it so late that we’ll need to wear fingerless gloves to ward off the cold as we write down the details!

* this Burial Register was transcribed by hand by Lorie Lain-Rogers on one of her many days spent trawling through the Bergh Apton records held in Norfolk Records Office.

Thomas Hubbard’s headstone photographed in May 2016.

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Thomas Hubbard’s headstone photographed in October 2005.

John Ling

The coffee 'n chat mornings on every 3rd Wednesday are still well supported, and as can be seen from these accompanying photos are open to all of us, let's hope that more men will come in the future.

Coffee ‘n’ Chat

Annual Sponsored Bike Ride Saturday 10th September 2016

Is Norfolk flat? Thousands of cyclists will be able to confirm (or otherwise) on the 10th September after they have biked around the towns and villages for the annual Sponsored Bike Ride. Most churches in Norfolk participate in this event (I have a list of those that will be open), so if you prefer to visit churches in a different part of the county you may transport your cycles by car and then bike (or walk) around the churches in that area. Churches will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Half the money raised is retained by The Norfolk Churches Trust, who organise the event, to enable them to continue making grants towards the repair and restoration of Norfolk's churches and chapels. The other half is for the church nominated by the cyclist.

I shall need people to spend an hour or two in our Church to welcome and "sign in" the visiting cyclists (this can be sponsored too). Please let me know if you can help.

If you would like more information or a sponsor form, please give me a ring.

Patricia Waters Telephone: 01508 480373

We will be decorating the Church

for Harvest Festival on Saturday

1st October from 9.30am to 1pm.

Do come along and help or just bring

your fruit & vegetable contribution.

All gifts are welcome and distributed

around the village.

Any excess produce is taken

to the Norwich Night Shelter.

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Bergh Apton, you’ve done it again!

As a result of your generosity during Christian Aid Week in May, I was able to bank over £603, and the central treasurer will be able to add an estimated £84 in gift aid to the total. For a small village that is an astounding result. When emergencies strike - such as earthquakes or floods - Christian Aid is there to help, but their work doesn’t stop there. Their day-to-day efforts are on numerous fronts, striving to improve the lives of people across the planet. These include campaigning for human rights, improving gender equality, fighting for better health awareness and provision, with particular focus on malaria and HIV at the moment, and working towards global tax justice so that multinational companies pay their tax dues in the countries where they operate. As well as doing this in the corridors of power, they work at grass roots level with local partners to provide training and education, and practical solutions to local problems. There is a common misconception that Christian Aid only supports Christian communities or operates with a Christian evangelical agenda. This is far from the truth. To find out more about their work, have a look online; the following link is a good place to start. http://www.christianaid.org.uk/whatwedo/in-focus/gender/gender-overview.aspx So, thank you, Bergh Apton, for your wonderfully generous response to the Christian Aid Week Appeal 2016 and for your support of the volunteers who donate their time and shoe leather delivering and collecting those envelopes. You are an amazing village!

Shirley Rimmer

Village Christian Aid Co-ordinator

Bergh Apton local history group visited Great

Yarmouth to walk the footprint of the old town wall on 19th May, being led by Dr Mary Fewster whose knowledge of both the walls and the Herring Industry was formidable.

In common with our summer the weather was somewhat variable, relatively warm at first but cooling during our progress, leaving those lightly clad members feeling they might have brought more substantial vestments.

The walk commenced at the North West Tower on the banks of the River Bure, one of an original

ring of 15 towers " which set out to thunder whenever a Spaniard dared to come near". We then followed the path of the wall to its end at the site of the South Gates on the river.

Several of the towers and sections of the walls

are still in excellent condition with their attractive flintwork, though many have been demolished over time to make way for modern roads. Part of the wall was removed to extend St Nicholas' church yard.

Also of interest was following the numbers of "The Rows" the old tightly packed streets within the walls which led down to the River where many inhabitants worked.

A coffee break was taken mid-morning at The Patio, Dene Side followed by an excellent lunch at the Tide and Time Museum.

All were very appreciative of the informative guidance given by Dr Mary Fewster and the organisation of BALHG leader Linda Davey.

Hugh Porter

BALHG

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The Queen’s Birthday Celebration

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Bergh Apton Fete 2016

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Bergh Apton Fete 2016

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Bergh Apton Fete 2016

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Vacancy for parish councillor. A vacancy has arisen for one parish councillor as Elaine

Horn has unfortunately decided that her work and home commitments mean she cannot continue in her role on the parish council. Her enthusiasm and ideas will be sadly missed but hopefully, at a future date, she will be able to stand for election again. If you are interested in putting yourself forward for co-option on the parish council, please contact Philippa Fuller, the parish clerk, on clerk@berghapton.org.uk for further information. Queens 90th birthday celebrations

We had 'a bit of a do' at the village hall on the 11th of June. It seemed to go down well, according to some of the experts (those under the age of ten who know about these things) it was 'brilliant’, ‘the best day ever' and 'we should do it again next week'.

The fete games, loaned to us by John Burrage, were a great success, most of the children had never played such things before and found them a lot of fun but then, so did the adults. Those of us who watched the children’s races, will never forget the sight of Stephanie Crome running beside the track towards the finish line holding a bag of sweets in front of her granddaughter to encourage her to keep going!

We were very lucky that the rain held off until the end of the daytime festivities and we only had to run for cover when it was time to hand out the prizes to the winners of

Parish Council

the various guessing games and the queens hat competition.

I would like to thank our sponsors who made the day possible: South Norfolk District Council F.W.Properties Chet and Waveney Valley Vineyard MCB Financial Services Green Pastures Plant Centre and Farm Shop

When James Debbage said he would provide us with some salad for the evening party, I had not expected to have to transport it in a very large trolley in a very large van! So thank you James and Michelle and a very big thank you to our 'kitchen team' who prepared it all in record time.

A big thank you must go to Gill Waters who made and decorated not one, but two delicious birthday cakes for us, one for the children's party decorated with a maypole topped by a crown and one for the evening done as a union flag.

The evening party was very well attended, it was nice to see so many residents of all ages tucking in to the hog roast, veggie paella and of course, the mountain of salads. All whilst having a good gossip and catching up with old friends. Once again the youngsters had a good time, I know of two small boys who had such a great evening that, when they got home, they were not allowed to touch anything until they had been in the shower! At one point in the evening I just stood in the garden at the village hall and listened to all the conversation buzzing around me and thought, yes, this is what makes Bergh Apton such a special place.

So thank you again everyone for making the day so memorable for us all.

Liz Robinson

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Small amounts of your time, could make a huge difference to an older person living in Norfolk.

Do you love listening and talking? Can you help give a vulnerable person a voice or fill in forms? Would you like to help us raise funds, give talks or help with events and marketing? If so, Age UK Norfolk would welcome you to join its volunteering team.

No experience is necessary, and whatever your talents and interests, there is bound to be a voluntary opportunity where you can share your knowledge, make new friends and have fun! There is also the chance to learn new skills, build your confidence and gain important experience.

All volunteers are offered full training and will get ongoing support and advice from the volunteer management team.

To find out more call 01603 785 234 or visit www.ageuknorfolk.org.uk

Can you help?

Coffee Morning at Washingford House,

Cookes Road, Bergh Apton,

NR15 1AA. Thursday 6th October 2015

From 10 am to 1 pm

In aid of

The Brooke

http://www.thebrooke.org/

and The Tibet Relief Fund

www.tibetrelieffund.co.uk

Jewellery, Pottery, Cards, Gifts,

Handmade Soaps and bath oils, Cake

and Tombola stall.

Entry £2.50 to include

coffee and biscuits

Please park at the house,

Village Hall or at P.O.

Contact: Paris Back 550924

parisb@waitrose.com

Liz Lester 480387

lester435@btinternet.com

Offers of cakes/Tombola prizes

would be greatly appreciated

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Archery!!!

Bergh Apton Archers

meet every Tuesday evening from 6.30PM at The Manor,

Threadneedle Street, Bergh Apton.

(weather permitting)

All are invited to join us to practice this ancient sport

No experience or equipment necessary but please bring any bows & arrows if you have any.

Please use the old entrance to The Manor; we shoot on the field to its right (the Fete car park).

For more information, call Bob Kerry on 480661

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"For a while there I didn't think I'd be able to get my spaceship to work." I said to Maisie.

This of course implied that I had, in the end, gotten my spaceship to work... and indeed I had. How pleasing!

I had attended the lantern making workshop arranged by BACAT and facilitated by Kate Munro, who charmingly enthused us about the task at hand. Fifteen people were welcomed with a cup of coffee and a place at a table covered in plastic sheet.

Those who had expressed an interest had been asked to think of something to make at the workshop, and after Kate explained the technique of bending the willow twigs that she had bought along (pre-soaked); we set to our plans.

A quiet buzz of activity consumed the room, in the same way that a room falls silent of conversation at the start of a good meal. Silent apart from the chink of cutlery and china; or in this case the sound of ripping masking tape. Occasional muttered apologies could also be heard as the springy willow inadvertently clips your neighbour around the ear.

We all did our thing, in studied concentration, punctuated by brief words of encouragement by Kate or the other luminaries.

Around lunch time we reluctantly left our work to eat a baked spud, some cheeses and an inventive salad including nuts and berries. Delicious!

More peace and quiet while we worked on our projects and then tea and a sticky bun.

Then time to go... five hours had whizzed past and we were able to pack our, mostly finished, slightly sticky lanterns into our cars. They were bigger than planned - so some of us had to walk home.

If you haven't attended one of the many workshops organised by BACAT, I encourage you to do so. From a personal perspective; approaching the day it seemed like a lot of time away from getting necessary chores done. At the end of the day I felt

Creative Peace in a Spaceship

tired, peaceful and satisfied... which is pretty much as good as it gets.

...And the plans for a flying saucer space ship had worked!

Chris Mewton

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From Bunting and Bangles

to Ducks and Divas. Crafts @ Kirstead 2016 has something for everyone!

Crafts @ Kirstead, one of the region’s largest artisan craft fairs, promises to be bigger and better this year when it opens its gates to the public over the weekend of the 10th and 11th September.

The event has come a long way since the two organisers, Lesley Fish and Jane Williams, held their first fund-raising craft fair five years ago in the grounds of Sisland Tithe Barn. This year, over 80 of East Anglia’s finest artisan producers and makers will be exhibiting and selling their work during the two-day festival which is being held at Homestead Nurseries in Kirstead.

The 2016 fair showcases a huge variety of talent. Craftwork includes pottery created by the talented Andrea Young from her Wattlefield studio; hallmarked silver jewellery produced by Norfolk jeweller, Fiona Johnson; wooden bird-tables and garden planters made by Maurice Morris-Newton from Framingham Earl, who has previously supplied Queen Elizabeth II with garden furniture at Sandringham and Paul Williams, the Neatishead woodturner, whose food-safe boards grace the restaurants of top London chefs.

Award-winning marmalade-maker, Ali Barwick from Loddon, will be selling her selection of preserves including the world’s best Seville Orange Marmalade. Other food producers include Jane Graham from Gressenhall with her wonderful fruit and alcohol infusions and Kate Lyons –

Crafts @ Kirstead

creator of Pudd’Eng, a superb range of traditional, English desserts.

With plenty happening throughout the weekend, you are sure to find something to entertain you. Bring your dog along and enter the “Canines @ Kirstead” Dog Show (kindly sponsored by K9 Capers) which takes place on Saturday together with an entertaining display of Dog Agility. Entries start from 10am, and with classes ranging from “Best Pedigree” to “The Dog the Judge Would Like to Take Home”, you are sure to find an entry to suit your pooch! BBC’s “Look East” presenter, Susie Fowler-Watt, has agreed to the onerous task of judging the Dog Show later on Saturday afternoon!

On Sunday 11th September a Douglas C-47 Dakota from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight based at RAF Coningsby, will be making a flypast over the Craft Fair (time to be confirmed). The wonderful Broadbeat Choir will be making a welcome return and performing some of their songs and a finale to the weekend will be performed by the fantastic Loddon Brass Band.

This year, the charities benefiting are Nelson’s Journey, Macmillan Cancer Support and The Sheffield Children’s Hospital and it’s hoped that each will receive in excess of the £1,100 per charity raised in 2015.

Both parking and entry to the event is free and a variety of food and refreshments will be available throughout the weekend including a menu created especially for the event by The Bistro Express in Sisland, afternoon teas by Jay B Bakes@The Café, Brooke, a range of beers brewed by The Why Not Brewery and a hog roast from MB Catering based at The Kings Head in Brooke.

From bunting and bangles to ducks and divas, there is something for everyone and we look forward to seeing you there.

Crafts @ Kirstead is open both days from 10.00am until 4.00pm. For further information, please call (01508) 520520.

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St PETER & St PAUL CHURCH BERGH APTON

invite you to

THE HARVEST FESTIVAL

and POT LUCK LUNCH

SUNDAY 2nd OCTOBER

11.00am Harvest Festival in Church

12.30pm Pot Luck lunch in the Village Hall

Please bring either a main course

or a pudding which is enough for you

plus one or two others. BYO refreshments.

Bring your husbands, wives, children,

houseguests, well-behaved dogs, etc!

But above all, do come and have fun!

ANY QUESTIONS?

Call HILARY LING on 01508 480 439

hilary.ling@btinternet.com

AUGUST 3rd 19.30 Village Hall Management meeting 3rd 19.30 P.C.C.meeting at Church 6th 09.30 Churchyard Workday 13th 09.30 Churchyard Workday 17th 10.00-12.00 Coffee n Catch Up at the Village Hall 20th 10.00 BACT Workday. Meet at Church Field 23rd 12.30 Tuesday Friends at Church 24th 19.30 Fete Wash-up meeting at Village Hall 25th 10.00 BACT Workday. Meet at Church Field 26th 18.30 The Hare open again at Royston House

SEPTEMBER 7th 19.30 Parish Council at Village Hall 10th All day Norfolk churches cycle ride 10th 09.30 Churchyard workday 14th 19.30 B.A. Society talk on Trans Siberian Railways by Sue Sursham 17th 10.00 BACT Workday. Meet at Church Field 21st 10.00-12.00 Coffee n Catch Up at the Village Hall 22nd 10.00 BACT Workday. Meet at Church Field 27th 12.30 Tuesday Friends at Church 28th 19.30 BA Conservation Trust A.G.M. at Village Hall. Speaker: Matthew Davies on the Norwich Fringe Project,

OCTOBER 1st 09.30-13.00 Decorate church for Harvest Festival and Church Gift Day 2nd 11.00 Harvest Festival Church service + Bring & Share lunch at the Village Hall

Dates for your diary 2016

Activities Contacts

(BACAT Workshops) Pat Mlejnecky: 01508 480696

(Conservation Trust) Stephanie Crome: 01508 480573

(Local History) John Ling: 01508 480439

(Village Hall) Hilary Ling: 01508 480439

(Painting Class) Barbara Fox: 01508 550168

(Singing) Karen Bonsell: 01508 480018

(Bergh Apton Society) Lynton Johnson: 01508 480629

The Bergh Apton Newsletter is published with the financial support of the following organisations:

Bergh Apton Community Arts Trust Bergh Apton Conservation Trust Bergh Apton Local History Group

Bergh Apton Village Hall Bergh Apton Parish Council

Bergh Apton Parochial Church Council The Bergh Apton and District Society

Regular Activities

The Copy Date for the next issue is 10th September.

Please send articles to me Milton Harris [Editor] at

town_farm@btinternet.com

Thank you

Monday 17.00 Dog Training Village Hall

Tuesday (Alternate)

10.00 - 13.00 Painting Class Village Hall

Thursday 19.30 Sing-a-Long Village Hall

Friday 10.00 - 11.45 Yoga Village Hall