July & August 1999

Mr Martin Thompson

The death has occurred of Mr Martin Thompson who until recently lived at Barley View. We would like to express our deepest sympathy to all his family and friends.

From neighbours on Southside Lane, Barbara & Pete Lingard.

The Newhouse Family wish to thank all our neighbours and friends for their kindness, good wishes, the flowers and the cards. During Sheila’s recent and ongoing illness. It has been a great comfort and very much appreciated.

Thank You All.

Free Car Parking

Rudston Razzle in aid of the

Village Hall Millennium Refurbishment charity

We are pleased to announce the completion of the old barn conversion here at the Bosville.

Now available are six new units of serviced accommodation, each with their own en suite, remote colour television and tea/coffee making facilities.

Three of the rooms are twin bedded, whilst two have double beds plus a bed settee. The largest room is our ‘honeymoon’ unit with its king size four poster bed, bed settee and Jacuzzi style bath.

All the rooms will be let on a motel style basis, with the twins and the doubles at £39.50 per room per night, and the honeymoon room at £47.50 per night .

Leaflets with full details are now available and anyone so interested is welcome to collect one at the Bosville, or telephone for a copy by mail.

We have also taken our own Web site for the computer enthusiast, and can be found via www.ytb.org.uk access accommodation, then Rudston.

During the summer you may well see Tony Hogan with a group of artists working around this beautiful village, please stop and say hello if you feel like it. Or a cup of tea is always welcome.

Can We Help?

Long Term, Short Term and Respite Care.

Barn Cottage Residential Home

Boynton

Bridlington

Tel: 01262 603488

There will be a Ham – Salad Lunch in the Village Hall on the 5^th August at 12 noon, in aid of church funds. This will be followed by a walk around two gardens. Tickets £5.

Watch the notice boards for further information.

The next meeting is on July 6^th at 7.15p.m. in the Village Hall. The speaker will be Mr Grainge on "Reiki Healing". The competition is a decorated hard boiled egg. Hostesses – H Conner and J Jackson.

The evening outing to Scampson Hall will be on Tuesday 3^rd August. Refreshments afterwards at The Coach & Horses, Rillington. Time and transport to be arranged at the July meeting.

The Outing is on 20^th July to the museum at Filey. Tea will be taken at "Michaels"!

Members should meet outside Kath Algars’ home at 1.30p.m.

The meeting on 17^th August at 7.30p.m. will be at the home of Connie Stephenson. Speaker – Joan Atkins, Leader – Shirley Harland, Vote of Thanks – Joan Conner, Hostesses – Connie Stephenson and Pat Stephenson.

Just to let all new-comers to the village know that new members are always welcome. Membership fees are £20 – family, £10 – adult, £4 – Junior. Further details can be obtained from Jane Crossley, Kiplington, Long Street.

The Memn’s team has only lost 1 match to date, the social mixed team has had mixed success and both junior teams are finding the competition much tougher this year! Overall the standard of the club tennis continues to rise.

The rearranged club tournament will take place on

Sunday, July 3^rd. 1.30p.m. start.

For the interest of nature lovers – there are a pair of Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers feeding from my bird table and taking nuts from the feeder every day.

The location is top secret for now!

The half-time whistle has now gone in the garden so it’s time now to sow for next spring, those hardy flowers that grace our plots after the dark winter days. Brompton stock, forget-me-nots, Canterbury bells, double daisies, polyanthus,

cheiranthus, foxgloves, evening primroses, sweet

williams, Iceland poppies and honesty, yes, this one does well in the Rudston area, remember the fields up Thwing Road? Hollyhocks and although rather late, wallflowers. All these are biennials and many seed themselves once in the garden. Spring cabbage seed for next year is sown now, the best and only round drumhead variety is "Spring Hera", an excellent variety. All varieties need a sweet soil so even on our chalky land, a dusting of lime is often an advantage as even our land can become sour.

Parsley surface sown now will give young plants to overwinter in a cold frame or in a pot in the kitchen window sill. Parsley too is a biennial and once it flowers it dies.

The bearded Iris family are first class flowers for our gardens and now is the optimum time to split and replant, leaving the fat rhizome root more or less on the soil surface. They like a sunny spot and, like cabbages, they thrive on a sweet soil. There are more than 300 varieties these days!

Finally, where garden apple & pear trees are grown, it’s time to summer prune them by pinching back the new green side shoots, leaving about six new leaves, this encourages the production of blossom buds and when November comes, these side shoots are again cut back to two or three dormant buds.

In the old walled gardens at Thorpe Hall,

an arch of cordon peas used to grace that

wonderful garden. These were summer pruned each July and trained on a tunnel of metal

supports. A fantastic garden to learn the main skills in Horticulture.

Strange things are happening deep in the greenhouse at the home of Mr & Mrs W. Burgess, Rudston. A box of young Calendula seedlings was growing happily when Walter noticed what looked like fine yellow string growing round one of the plants. On further investigations it became obvious that the "string" was in fact a form of growth. It had no roots or leaves, just thin growth which emerged from the stem of the poor Calendula.

It was in fact a true plant parasite, unusual in

areas north of York. It’s name is the "Greater

Dodder" botanically known as Cuscula Europea, an annual that gets all it’s food from the host plant.

Is this a first for our area? In the south it does occur on some herbaceous plants and it belongs to the bindweed family, Convolvulvus, a not very rare plant in our area. The parasite does produce seeds, so look out all gardeners, especially if you see a flying saucer… Dick Robinson is hoping that this unusual plant doesn’t get

"Genetically Engineered!"

We Would like You To Come and Have a

Cup of Tea or Coffee and Chat

At 2.30 – 4.30 p.m.

Every 2nd Tuesday of the Month At White Cottage, near the Bridge

All Welcome

Trickle little waterfall, glisten in the sun

The trout are jumping at your feet, their task is almost done

The baby deer jump your stream, where it’s not too wide

Splash the rocks all standing guard, always by your side

Try to catch the chestnut leaf floating down your back

Try to toss it in the air, or wedge it in a crack

Can you catch the raindrops and add them to your flow

Catch as many as you can, to stop you running low

Through the ice of winter, to the fresh spring air

All the way to autumn, through the summer glare

Don’t ever think of drying up, your beauty would be missed

And nature won’t be nature, if you don’t exist.

With the Parish Council meeting being on the 30th June, you may be reading this before or after it. Not that there is anything too controversial (I think!) to discuss. I would expect the following meeting to be around mid-August, but the actual date will be advertised on the notice boards in the usual way, a few days before hand. In practice, that is normally the Wednesday evening one week preceding a Wednesday meeting. It just so happens that owing to my summer sporting commitments (er-hem!) the June one went up a day earlier.

One thing to mention in the "Millennium" item at the meeting, which is a fixture on every agenda this year, will be Beacons. That is the sort last used on the Queen’s Jubilee, the nearest of which was "above " Ruston Parva. Well, they are wanting more than ever for the Millennium, if not large ones on a hill, then more modest ones on top of church towers. The idea first came up a few months ago, when your Parish Council rejected it, partly on cost. The reason it comes up again is that grants are now being made available. That may or may not make a difference to Parish Council views.

I think some people, mostly those trying to sell things, have higher expectations of Millennium "celebrations" than most of us intend. It was interesting to note in a Parish Councils publication that celebrations in Ledbury, Herefordshire, have been cancelled through lack of interest. Their Town Council had sent letters to 3,500 inhabitants inviting help in organising street parties, fireworks etc. but they had only received one reply – and that from a man complaining they were celebrating the wrong date as it should be in 2001.

That’s another thing – have they forgotten it is winter by then? Street parties indeed! Not to mention draughty church towers at midnight – it’s enough to be ringing bells inside one!

To turn to a different subject. A poster about Humberside Police Lay Visitor Scheme was put up in mid-June. There is a leaflet about it, which I am advised to circulate amongst Parish Council members, if anyone is interested enough to seek further information.

There I shall leave it this month. See you all at the Razzle!

P. Crossland (Clerk)

"No mooing between the hours of 10 p.m. and 7 a.m." Bill Middleton, farmer, stared at the instruction under "conditions" in the Planning Approval just received from the District Council.

He wondered if it could be a mis-print, but decided not. His plans were, after all, for an extension to the cow shed. Since the plans had been drawn up, though, the cattle trade had slumped quite disastrously and he was having second thoughts about the project.

Glancing through the rest of the (more usual) conditions, Bill returned to the item. Aloud, he repeated it: "No MOOING between the hours of 10 p.m. and 7 p.m.! This time his two companions in the house took an interest. The sheep-dog Ben , looked up intelligently from the rug, briefly wagging his tail, and Sooty , the cat, raised an inquisitive eye from the armchair. Noticing the reaction, he told them with a smile that he would "just go round and see Nancy about it."

Nancy was his brothers’ wife and looked after the paperwork for him. After the explanations, Nancy agreed that it seemed quite bizarre, and between them the decided on a bit of fun. A letter was typed up, and sent with a photocopy of the section of "Conditions" to Robin Page, the well known countryman broadcaster and writer. They then decided on a list of "Rules for the Cow Shed" which was also typed out. Headed by the "No Mooing" one, it included such items as "Milk to be kept at Even Temperature, Minimum Milk Production – 15 litres, Toilet Only within Approved Channel, No Defecating in Doorways."

So it was that a few days later, Bill, having made an appointment with the Planning Office of the District Council, faced a stern faced young lady with his list. He told her that, although his cows were generally well behaved, he had taken note of the Council’s interest in country matters and had drawn up a list (which he pushed towards her) which, with Council approval, would be displayed in the cow shed.

Of course, he explained that he couldn’t guarantee compliance, as his cows rarely spoke and just regarded him with the same baleful expression!

If you had been in Rudston on August 15^th, 1940 at 1 pm, just when most of the village folk had finished their "Dinner", you would recall it was a beautiful hot harvesting day, a few high cloud and very little wind. The countryside was quiet except for the sound of the binders, starting in the fields of corn. This peaceful scene suddenly changed with a heavy droning noise coming high in the sky from the direction of Bridlington. If you had looked up you would have seen groups of German planes being attacked by Spitfires and Hurricane fighter planes from RAF Group No 13. The noise of machine gun fire was everywhere. One or two of the enemy planes came over low being followed by a Spitfire, the attack was to be on RAF Driffield. The German planes were Junkers JU88’s. a type seen before over Rudston, twin radial engined and easy to identify. By 1.45pm a lone JU88 on fire came back over Rudston at tree top height. I would estimate it was just able to clear the church tower, as it passed over Thorpe road, just after the war memorial, it released its one remaining bomb which fell and exploded in a field at the east end of Robson Wood.

The plane eventually came down near Flamborough, I believe. Another JU88 flew down the valley from Kilham, very low it appeared undamaged. But a little later an ammunition dump was blown up in a farmyard at Burton Agnes. The JU88’s came from a base in Denmark and I understand that eight were lost. A friend of mine has met one of the Germans who was a crew member of a JU88 on this raid, so I feel sure that this will be a true figure of losses.

Walter Burgess and I witnessed this raid from a point at the west end of Robson’s Wood. And actually saw the bomb leaving the damaged plane and we think we saw a crew member in the big front canopy, the plane was so low.

This raid occurred during the main week of "The Battle of Britain".

Well, we’re almost t here! The script is finished, Gaynor Barnes from YTV has been, we’ve filmed her at various locations around the village and she’s done the narration for the film. All we have to do now is complete the last shot list and then it’s down to editing and putting it all together. It‘s not so much what do we put in but what unfortunately we have to leave out, there is so much information and of course with it being a film we have to back our facts with something visual. There’s been a lot of work but I think the final result will be one you’ll all enjoy.

May I take this opportunity of thanking the Bosville Arms for sponsoring Gaynor’s fee and my grateful thanks to The Driffield Car Centre for their generous financial support. Also my thanks to Martin Thompson & Son, Allan & Pat Stephenson and Joan & Hazel Conner.

Other contributions have been:-

John Fiddy Music Library - Licence to use their music

Yorkshire Television - Extract from South Riding

Peter Easterby Trailers - Video Sleeves

Hull & East Riding Museum - Loan of colour slides and filming permission at the museum

The Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England - licence to reproduce documents

Cambridge University - Licence to reproduce photographs

Hull Archaeology Partnership - Licence to reproduce photographs

And last but by no means least my thanks to Walt Burgess for the use of his collection of Rudston photographs, his memorabilia and also his vast knowledge of Rudston and the surrounding area. Without his help none of this would have been possible. My thanks also to Sir Ian Macdonald, Mr & Mrs A Dawson, Grace Martin, Allan Stephenson, Jean & Duncan Corner, Margaret Reed, Dick Robinson, Doug Clark, the Reverend Stephen Cope, Pete Gray, Tony & Mark Proctor and Mary & Dave at the village shop plus Clive Barnby.

As you can see the list seems endless and if I have missed anyone please forgive me. This film has been a combined effort from many people and let’s hope plenty of copies are sold to raise plenty of money for the fund.

Don’t forget the film is being released on the day of the RUDSTON RAZZLE and if you’re there in the first hour and buy your copy then, you can have it signed by Gaynor Barnes.

Once again my thanks to everyone who has helped.

Robin Woods

Gypsey Rider To Bridlington

Wed. 08.40 – 11.30 car park

13.25 – 16.30 - -

Sat. 09.10 – 11.30 car park

4th Thursday in the month: Driffield 09.25 – 12 noon.

No. 126

Mon & Wed

(d) 09.43 – (a) 10.03

No. 126

Mon & Wed

(d) 13.30 – (a) 13.50

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