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THE MAGNA MESSENGER THIS NEWSLETTER IS PRODUCED BY THE LUDFORD VILLAGE HALL

COMMITTEE ON BEHALF OF THE COMMUNITY GROUPS SERVING THE

VILLAGE AND SURROUNDING AREA

July 2010

Ludford WI are having a Super September Spectacular and everybody is in-vited (including the men!!).

On 1st September we are having an

open meeting starting at 7.00pm in

the village hall. The entertainment will feature

Say and her belly dancers (told you the men would want to come!) and includes a buffet and

raffle at a cost of £3.00 per head.

On 23rd September we are having a Harvest Supper and Mini Auction at the village hall starting at 7.00pm. Tickets are again £3.00 and

there will be a raffle and the bar will be

open. Please contact Sandy on 01472 398475 or

Dianne on 01472 398501 for tickets for any of

the above. Any donations of produce or items

for sale would be greatly appreciated.

If you cannot wait until then we are also organ-

ising an outing to Leeds on Thursday 29th

July. Apart from all the usual excellent shops in

Leeds on Thursdays there is a big open market

and of course the Leeds Armouries (the main

exhibition is free entry) plus much more. The

cost for this is £11.00 for adults and £8.00 for

children and we will leave from the Black Horse

layby at 9am prompt. Please contact Caroline on

01507 313335 to book. Payment in advance

please.

Ludford-Voue Twinning Association

For those of you who are not aware, all village residents and the surrounding area are members of the Associa-

tion. This gives everyone the chance to join in with the activities of the Association as they want to.

We try and have return visits about every 18 months,

and our next visit to France is planned for half term in June 2011. We will be raising funds for that event to

help with the cost of travel.

Everybody is welcome to join the visit, families with chil-

dren are very welcome, and varying levels of ability in French speaking or none at all doesn’t matter a jot. We

stay in the French families’ homes, and always receive

fantastic hospitality. We try and match the same families again on the return trip, and many of us have made pri-

vate visits to our twin families whilst on holiday in France. We have also ‘swapped’ some of our older chil-

dren to stay during school time for a couple of weeks to

West House B & B, Binbrook

Self contained accommodation. One ground floor double or twin bedroom

with ensuite bathroom. Sitting room with woodburner.

French windows lead from bedroom onto private patio & garden.

Double £55 / Night, Single £35/

Night

Tel : Bob or Catherine (01472) 399473

experience the different culture and way of life.

We are currently looking for a family to have a 13 year old French boy at present, so if this sounds

like a possibility, then please give me a call and I will put you in touch.

To start our fundraising effort, we are holding a Car Boot sale at the Hall on the Bank Holiday Mon-

day on 30th August. We would be pleased to have

some help in the kitchen, and around the field and

possibly holding a stall on our behalf. If you

have any other fundraising ideas we would be pleased to know, as new ideas are usually

good ideas! Please contact me, Caroline on 01507 313335.

We are delighted to present the hugely

entertaining

London Philharmonic Skiffle

Orchestra

Appearing live at Ludford Village Hall on

Thursday 30th September

To the LPSO, skiffle means "anything goes", as

long as it is musical, entertaining and fun.

Their performances are energetic, colourful,

bizarre, tuneful, virtuoso and hilarious,

incorporating a wealth of instruments, costume

changes and numerous props.

And they are full of surprises ...!!!

go to www.lpso.co.uk for more information

Curtain up at 7.30 sharp; Bar will be open;

Tickets £6 in advance or £7 on the night.

From Caroline on 313335

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PARISH MATTERS

At the May meeting Cllrs. Mrs Patricia Ridger and Mr Iain Davidson were elected to remain chair and vice chair respectively of the Parish Council.

We remain a full council of seven and hope that we will be seeing some of you at our meetings during the year.

BEST KEPT VILLAGE

We have entered for the Best Kept village compe-tition, your gardens as always are looking beauti-ful so we need to concentrate on the public areas too. Some residents work really hard to tend these areas and this is most appreciated. Please, if you see any litter would you pick it up.

LIBRARY VAN

The library van visits the village once a month and has two stops in Ludford, the Black Horse and the end of Chapel Lane. The county council are look-ing at areas to save money and if we want to keep this amenity we must all use it regularly. An aver-age usage survey is currently being carried out.

WASTE COLLECTION

Just to remind everybody, our bins are collected on a Tuesday.

This year you need to present household and green waste on the same day, Re-cycle will be collected on alternate weeks. Please put your bins out early.

GLASS RE-CYCLING BINS

Three small bins are sited in the car park of the village hall, each bin will take mixed glass, please remember to remove any tops before disposing of bottles.

HEDGES

Thank you for cutting back your hedges where they obstructed the roads and footways, your swift response is most appreciated.

If you have any overhanging hedgerows or trees and need some help with trimming back please let us know.

PARISH PLAN

The council feels it is time that Ludford defines the direction it wants to go in the future. With this in mind we would like a group of residents to form with us a working party to prepare a Parish Plan for Ludford. We see the project being completed within 12 months. If you are 16 to 116 and want to help shape the village’s future we are looking for you. Please contact any councillor or leave a message with the clerk.

ROAD SAFETY

We have not forgotten speeding and we share

your concerns that the road traffic seems heav-ier and faster, particularly in the early mornings and evenings. We will need volunteers to man the interactive speed sign if we can secure a date, Two people to work as a pair the entire time it is sited. If you can help, even if it is only a couple of hours please contact a councillor.

Finally our next meeting will be in the commit-tee room of the village hall on Tuesday 13

th

July 2010, then usually the 2nd Tuesday of Sep-

tember, November, January, March and May. If you have any items you wish us to discuss please contact the clerk, Mrs Joyce Gay 01507 600383 as early as possible in advance of the meeting.

Chairman: Patricia Ridger 313391

Vice Chairman: Iain Davidson 313528

Alastair Guthrie: 313221

Christopher Lilley: 313998

Martin Cordwell: 313591

Graham Brader: 313684

Christine Hawthorn: 313433

Parish Clerk: Joyce Gay 600383

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MALC WATERS

Building maintenance

Tiling and plumbing

Kitchens, bathrooms, joinery and fencing

Tel: 01507 313825 / 07759 741696

July 2010

Hainton Playgroup

The Old School, School Lane

Hainton, LN8 6LP

Tel: 01507 313543

E-mail: [email protected]

Website: www.haintonplaygroup.org.uk

Supervisor: Mandy Williams

Ofsted ref: 253518

Reg Charity: 1037621

THE SWEET LIFE IN

LUDFORD

John Titley is a Bee Keeper.

Since the age of 14 he has had

a passion for bees and this pas-sion has stayed with him all his

working life. He was born in 1926 just three houses down from where he lives now on the

corner of Magna Mile and Six Hills Lane. When

John left school at the age of 14 he became a ‘Bevan Boy’ and I’m sure some of you will re-

member what that meant. This was just before the 2nd World War and John was given the

choice of either going down the mines, into industry or work on the land. He went to work

for a farmer called Bill Rutter at Burgh on Bain

and it was Bill who first got John interested in bees and taught John him how to take care of

his first bee colony which he kept in an old soap box.. From then on bees became the sec-

ond love in John’s life. His first love is Nancy

who he married in 1956.

John and Nancy moved into the house where

they still live today and John, who obviously

has always had a streak of the entrepreneur in him, decided to go into the mushroom growing

business. In those days mushrooms were a bit of a rarity and he considered there was a post-

war market for them. He inherited some land from his father which was originally part of the

old RAF Ludford site on which there were some

large Nissan-type huts. Along with his brother and the indominatable Nancy, they set up what

was to prove a very successful mushroom growing and distribution business.

John has kept diaries and note books on his

business and tells me that in his first year of serious production they produced and sold 100

lbs of mushrooms and by the time they took

the decision to retire in the early 1980’s they were producing 3000 lbs a week which is

150,000 lbs of mushrooms per year. They worked 24/7 on their business as well as bring-

ing up two daughters. And, of course, John never lost his love for bees. He maintains that

it was the bees that kept him sane!

Never one to hang up his boots, once he had

retired, John was able to indulge his passion for bees further. After about 3 years he had 150

colonies on about 6 sites in and around Ludford. Bees will forage up to 3 miles from their home

hive so the different colonies have to be kept a

reasonable distance apart.

Dear reader, you will probably be aware that the

Varroa mite has decimated the honey bee popu-lation across the world and a great deal of re-

sources and funding is going into trying to miti-

gate the damage that has been done by this mite. There is a resurgence of interest in keep-

ing bees and John is a mine of information on the intricacies of life in a hive with the Queen,

Drones and Workers and how they live as well

as the impact of the Varroa mite and the conse-quences for agriculture in general if we are not

able to eradicate it.

So, over the last 30 years or so John has built up yet another successful business for himself pro-

ducing and marketing his honey which he dis-tributes mainly in the North Lincolnshire area.

Although he has scaled back his activities some-what he still goes to Grimsby with his honey

which is on sale at Pennells Garden Centre at

Cleethorpes as well as other specialist outlets.

If you would like to find out more about keeping

bees or indeed if you would like to help John

with his hives he would be very pleased to hear from you.

You can contact the editor at magnamessen-

[email protected] or call Linda on 313663 and I will put you in touch with John and Nancy.

There is also a thriving BeeKeepers Society at Market Rasen. For further information please

contact [email protected]

July

2010 Village Hall Calendar

THE MAGNA MESSENGER

If you would like to include an article in the Newsletter or have ideas for future publications please contact either

Linda or Caroline on

01507 313663/ 313335 or email [email protected]

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July 2010

1 Village Hall Cttee 7-15pm

5 Monday Club 2-30 to 5pm

6 Games Night 7-15pm

7 WI 7-30pm in the village hall

Sun 11 Car boot Sale 11am. Help needed in the

kitchen please. Call Sally on 313825



Parish Council 7-30pm

14 Youth Club

16 Country and Western 8pm Tickets from

Marion on 313475



Sat 24 Car Boot Sale in aid of the World Challenge

students

30 Country and Western 8pm details as above

28 Pensioners’ Bingo 7-30pm donations to and

information from Vera Drury

Aug 2010


Gardening group meeting at Barbara Guthrie’s

home


Pensioners’ trip to Beamish contact Vera Drury

for details

4 WI 7-30pm

6 Country and Western 8pm Tickets from Marion

on 313475

8 Car Boot sale 11am



11 NO Youth Club

22 Country and Western lunch 12 noon details and

tickets from Marion on 313475



25 NO Youth Club. Private event

30 Car Boot Sale in aid of Twinning Assoc. 11am




18 Bingo night in aid of the World Challenge Stu-

dents 7-30pm —info from Very Drury

Sept 2010

5 101 Squadron Reunion—church service and pa-

rade followed by WI tea at the village hall

23 WI Harvest Auction and supper— guests and visi-

tors welcome. See inside for more details

30 London Philharmonic Skiffle Orchestra!! See

front page for details

Mark Pettinger of Ludford

Building Maintenance

Repair & Restoration.

Contact Numbers.

01507 313991

& 07810200783

Market Rasen Area Children’s Centre

Kilnwell Road,

Market Rasen

Sessional care for children from 2-5 years

Qualified staff to look after your children in a warm & friendly environment. We are now able to offer 15 hours flexible care for chil-dren who are eligible for funding. Spaces now available.

Contact Sally Jacklin on 01673 844484/01507 313825/07939930630

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