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PILGRIMAlderford, Attlebridge and Swannington
June 2017
Can you help make Swannington in Bloom another big success?
The Swannington Pump
The Swannington Pump needs a new roof. The thatch isin a very bad state of repair.At the end of the 19th century when the pump was built,the roof was tiled (as in the photograph). We areconsidering returning it to its original state.To thatch the Pump will cost approx. £6500.00.To tile the Pump will be approx. £4500.00.In either case we will have to apply for grants, as thePump fund does not have sufficient money.If you have strong views on how we should proceed,please would you contact one of the trustees and letthem know.
Antoinette Watts:[email protected] Tel. 860586
● Volunteers wanted (in exchange for free ticket)
● Tombola items requested. Door-to-door collectionSaturday 10th June or please take your donationsto Schoolfield, School Road, Swanningtonor Corner Cottage, Upgate by Friday 16th June.
● Plant donations very welcome! Please bring toJeremy at 4 Broad Lane, Swannington or ring860342 for collection.
● Advance tickets on sale at Farm to Fork,Bawdeswell Garden Centre, Taverham NurseryCentre and Dixon Centre, Hellesdon.
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A Message from the Revd Canon Margaret DeanOur Priest-in-Charge
Welcome to Helen
I am delighted to announce the arrival of The Revd Helen Rengert, who has been appointed as InterimAssociate Priest in the Reepham and Wensum Valley Team Ministry. Helen was licensed for this role forone year by the Bishop of Lynn at a service in Sparham church on 14th May.As you may remember, it has always been planned that our new benefice of 12 parishes would be served bytwo clergy: the Team Rector and the Team Vicar. Until a permanent appointment is made, Helen will beresponsible for the pastoral care, services, weddings, baptisms and funerals in the parishes of Bylaugh,Elsing, Gt Witchingham, Lyng, Sparham and Weston Longville. I continue to be responsible for the other sixparishes and we will work together too across the whole benefice.Helen’s home is in Spixworth, so we are very glad that we have been able to arrange for her to have anoffice at the Bircham Centre in Reepham Market Place.You will no doubt see her about in the next few weeks. We hope she will be very happy working with us.Please contact her as follows:
The Bircham Centre, The Market Place, Reepham NR10 4JJEmail: [email protected]
Interviews for the new Team Rector were held in May and at the time of writing we are waiting to hear theoutcome.
We are all living through a period of significant change, in our church life locally and also in our country.Our Archbishops have written to all the parishes and chaplaincies across the country asking us to renew ourcommitment to pray not only for each other, but also for those who are standing for election and for thosewho are elected. (The complete letter is available to read on the Diocese of Norwich website: enterArchbishops’ Pastoral Letter in the search box). They remind us that ‘the deep virtues and practices of love,trust and hope, of cohesion, courage and stability are not the preserve of any one political party orworldview, but go to the heart of who we are as a country in all its diversity’. They ask us to set asideapathy and cynicism, and to do what we can to participate for the common good, and especially to use ourvote!
June begins with the Day of Pentecost on Sunday the 4th - the celebration of the gift of the Holy Spirit. It isthe day of new beginnings in the church and the day to thank God with all of our being for the Spirit’sinspiration, courage, guidance and strength for every day. More than any other year, with so muchchanging around us, this is a moment to celebrate God’s eternal commitment to all people, and God’sengagement with our world and all our lives through the Holy Spirit. We are simply invited to get involvedin the task with him. Thank you for all you do.
Revd Helen Rengert was licensed on14th May to the proposed Reepham andWensum Valley team ministry; thank youto all who came and made a lovelyevening so special.I now have an office in Reepham whichyou are welcome to visit I will normallybe there Monday to Thursday 9-11am.Address: The Bircham Centre, The MarketPlace, Reepham, NR10 4JJ. [email protected]/helenrengertwork
Something different happened inAlderford Church
On Sunday 30 April we had a new type ofservice at Alderford, replacing our traditionalcommunion service. This was the first of anexperiment that we hope will continue.We learned some new and vibrant hymns,with our virtuoso Tim on his guitar and thehelp of our choir. With carefully chosenprayers, reflections and readings this was atruly spiritual and enjoyable experience.Everyone that I have spoken to found this arefreshing change and agreed that weshould have more variation in our worship.While knowing exactly what will happenwhen we go to church can be comforting,many will find a bit of variation stimulatingand interesting. Thank you very much toTim for all the hard work of putting the newideas together.We hope this may encourage more people(and some younger ones) to come and joinus on the occasional Sunday. We would loveit if others also come forward and share newideas with us.Watch this space.
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Attlebridge Parish Meeting
In the continued effort to curb speedingvehicles through Station Road, and OldFakenham Road in Attlebridge, the Parish haspurchased printed wheelie bin stickers stating: ’30 PLEASE DRIVE WITH CARE’.It is intended to fix these to refuse and recyclingbins over a two week period in June.
Any comments or objections, please email:[email protected]
Church Date
ALDERFORD withATTLEBRIDGE
25th May (12 Noon)3rd June 11am
BYLAUGH 30TH May 11am11th June (Trinity) during service
GT. WITCHINGHAM 1st June 11am8th June 11am
ELSING 31st May 11am4th June (Pentecost) during service
LYNG 4th June (Pentecost) during service6th June 11am
WESTON LONGVILLE 1st June 11am10th June 11am
SPARHAM 7th June 11am11th June (Trinity) during service
SWANNINGTON 25th May 11am3rd June (12pm Noon)
Thy Kingdom Come is a global prayerinitiative to encourage us to prayer fora new revelation of love in ourcommunities from ++ Justin and ++JohnFrom 25th May to 11th June there willbe an opportunity to prayer for 10mins, times and places below. Allwelcome as able.Revd Helen
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The annual Parishoners’ meeting and theParish Council AGM both took place onWednesday 3rd May. The minutes of bothmeetings are too long to be reprinted infull here but are available in draft form onthe Swannington-News website ParishCouncil page.
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Viola Ross-Smith of the BTO made an impassioned defence of the reputation of ‘seagulls’. It just isn’ttrue that they are evil, greedy birds. We may think that there are plenty of gulls around locally, andcertainly they are considered a pest in some areas, yet several species are of conservation concern.The Herring Gull is Red Listed, and the Lesser Black Backed Gull, is Amber Listed. Some work has beendone on urban gulls that shows that although nesting on rooftops they actually spend very little time inthe towns, heading off to feed in the countryside. Some excellent graphics allowed us to watch theflight of a gull from its nest, gaining height in thermals and travelling to a distant field to follow theplough. It topped up its earthworm feed by stopping in an estuary on its return journey for ragworms,but at no point was it interested in chips or ice cream.In late March members visited Hoe Common. David Knight explained the conservation work that is on-going. To keep down the spread of bracken, an area is being fenced to allow grazing by some NWTponies. Robins and Chiffchaffs were everywhere . The gorse was in bloom and Long-tailed Tits were inthe bushes with beaks full of nesting material. A Great-spotted Woodpecker posed right at the top of atree. On the road section of the walk we looked out for Buzzards and saw six circling high above us.Some of the group saw a Kingfisher as it bombed through along the Whitewater. On the lake twoGreat-crested Grebes were performing their symmetrical dance while the Mute Swans rested on thebanks. Tufted Ducks ,Moorhens,Greylags, Canadas grazed and a few Mallards were all present.
Future events: Indoor meetings are held on Thursday evenings at Great Witchingham Village Hall, Lenwade, at7.30pm. All are welcome. (There is a £2.00 charge for non-members) 18th May – Dove Step (Turtle doves) by JonnyRankin; 15th June – Birding Israel by Yoav Pearlman; 20th July – Blakeney Point by Richard PorterField trips: Saturday 10th June – Cley and Kelling Heath, the Nightjar evening; Saturday 24th June – Wensum Valley Stroll;Saturday 1st July – Upton FenFor more details and information contact Sue Gale – [email protected]
Wensum Valley Birdwatching Society
Down Memory LaneContinuing our new series of articles about life in the three villages in years gone by.
Many parishioners will remember Arthur Hawes who was our Rector from 1976 - 1992.He writes about his time working and living here.
The Wider Church
It has often been said 'Do not do separately, what you can do together'. This is an ideal'mantra' for the wider church and the Ecumenical movement which seeks to bring togetherpeople of all Christian denominations and to work together with people of other faiths. In theNorfolk countryside there has nearly always been a willingness to work across thedenominations because often the only place of worship, without going to the nearest town, isthe parish church. This was certainly true of the Pilgrim group. When we arrived two of thechurchwardens were from other churches. Brian Copelin was a Methodist and churchwardenat Swannington and Ken McVeigh was a Catholic and churchwarden at Alderford. Ken workedwith Ann Copplestone and Brian with Alfred Jordan.
Additionally we were joined by Coen and Willemyn Van Beuningen. Willemyn is Catholic andCoen Lutheran. As I wrote in article number 9, during the summer holidays in the fieldopposite Swannington church where Margaret and Steve Griggs live, there was a Youth campwhich was run by the Diocesan Youth Officer. Interestingly there were young people fromdifferent world religions. One year there were some from the Moslem faith and we arranged aservice in the church which combined both Christianity and Islam. We began with a cross onthe altar and finished with an Islamic emblem. Mr. Warnes who lived with his wife in KettsLane, told me it was the best thing I had ever done!!
Recently I was in Oxford which is where I was born and went to school. It is also where myparents are buried in the churchyard at St. Thomas' which is near Oxford station. When I wentto church there as a boy with my Mother and Father the tradition was high Anglican. Today itwould be called 'up the candle'.I was surprised to find that now the church is shared with the Greek Orthodox Christians in thecity who hold regular Sunday services there. As well as being surprised, I was also pleased thatthe ancient medieval church is being well used by both Anglican and Orthodox Christians. Theservices are not shared and each has their own specific time for worship over the weekend. InGaywood, King's Lynn, where we moved from Attlebridge, the church and all the facilities wereshared with the Methodists and it was different because this included shared worship.
Why is there this emphasis on the unity of the churches? Quite simply it is because we findJesus in chapter 17 of St. John's gospel praying for unity. For long enough there has beendivision and disagreement among the churches and never has it been more important tocooperate and work together than now. The Church can hardly encourage the world to unite,end wars and work together for peace, if it is disunited itself. I thank God that the PilgrimGroup of parishes led the way and opened its doors to everyone.
PAT’S POEM
THE TRAIN
Life is a very long journeyJust like a ride on a train
With lots of stations along the trackBut this is a train that never comes back!
It often seems quite a bumpy old rideSometimes the train breaks down!
That’s when we feel we‘d like to get outIt would be a mistake, I have no doubt!
We have to keep going at all costWe don’t know what’s round the next bend!
Even though we feel lonely and lostWe must stay on the train till the end!
If we jumped off at the wrong stationWe’d miss the whole point of our lives
We’d never find out what is waiting for usWhen our train arrives at the terminus!!
Patricia D. Evans Feb.2006
Pat Evans: Alderford’s very own poet. Copies ofher poems are on sale at Attlebridge church. All
proceeds go to church funds.
Weston Longville Village CinemaHall for All
Weston Longville
Saturday June 17th 2017
La La Land 12A
This is an America romantic musical comedy- dramafilm, directed by Damien Chazelle and starring RyanGosling and Emma Stone as a musician and an aspir-ing actress who meet and fall in love in Los Angeles.As success mounts they are faced with decisions thatbegin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair.Synopsis
Tickets £5.00 on the door.Including luxury ice cream!
Doors open 7pm for 7.30 screening.
All are Welcome!
Play Area Update
We are now at final stages of transfer so we will befencing off the corner within the next couple ofmonths and starting the fundraising process inearnest. Anyone keen to be involved is more thanwelcome to join the committee by contactingLaura on 01603 861300
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Nature Notes 8: The Chalk Grassland on Alderford Common
If “brownfield sites” can simplistically be defined as ones created by past industrial/commercial activities, thenparadoxically one of the greenest parts of the parish would qualify! Until about seventy years ago the marl piton Alderford Common was a busy industrial landscape as marl (a very chalky clay) and chalk were dug out andstacked in alternate layers with charcoal in the cone shaped centre of the lime kiln then fired to produce lime tobe spread on the fields. The kiln was worked until the second world war by Mr Munford who lived in Upgate.
The grassland that grew in the disused marl pit contains a number of plant species thatare only found in chalk rich soils. In the whole of eastcentral and north Norfolk these soil conditions are onlyfound in three sites: here on Alderford Common, atRingstead Downs and Warham Fort. On all three of thesesites calcium-loving plants form a distinctive andcharacteristic community including species such as wildstrawberries and the pyramidal orchid.
Five other species of orchid have also been recorded in the marl pit : common spotted orchid with white – palemauve flowers dotted and lined with crimson and darkly spotted leaves areparticularly abundant in the bottom of the steep sided “valley” (locally known as“orchid canyon” ) at the east end of the marl pit. Also inbottom of the “canyon” can be found the closely relatedearly marsh and southern marsh orchids which do not havespots on their leaves. Bee orchids which have flowers thatclosely mimic the bodies of bees and twayblades whichhave broad leaves and yellow-green flowers can both be
found in the main part of the marl pit.
“Orchid Canyon” had become very overgrown with hawthorn and black thorn scrub,until last autumn and winter conservation volunteers spent several days removing thescrub there. Their labours have been rewarded because one rather special andparticularly unusual looking plant, which I had not seen on the common for severalyears, called adder’s tongue, has suddenly sprung up where the scrub was removed,now that light can reach the ground layer just to the north of the path in the middle ofthe valley. Adder’s tongue is not a flowering plant. It is a species of fern more closely related to bracken thatto higher plants. It has a single, undivided, curved, frond surrounding a spore-bearing central spike.
“Orchid Canyon” was where the most bizarre event I have ever witnessed on the commons took place someyears ago. I was quietly ringing birds when a whole coach full of people trouped across the marl pit carrying bagsand picnic baskets. A little later the idyllic peace of a sunny summer’s afternoon was shattered by the “bang……bang…. bang” of small arms fire. I crept very stealthily through the undergrowth and crawled, with greatcaution, to peer over the edge of the valley. There beneath me, sportingspurred boots, chaps, gun belts and complete with stetsons a wild westernshoot-out was being re-enacted, with six-gun toting cowboys firing at eachother along the canyon.When they left, not only was the valley NOT strewn with corpses but therewas not a scrap of litter to be seen. As the orchids had died down by thenand the bird breeding season was over, I reflected that although rather arather unusual form of “amenity recreation” ,the visit by thirty plus wild westenthusiasts had done no harm at all. I wondered if perhaps they had seenme catching wild birds just to put tiny aluminium rings on their legs, theywould have considered me to be every bit as strange as I had found thatmemorable shoot -out at Alderford’s very own version of the OK coral.
Mark, with cartoon by Matthew (May 2017)
Bee orchid
Adder’s tongue
Germander speedwell Pyramidal orchid
The Wild East
4th June - Pentecost10:15 am Weston Longville Holy Communion
11th June - Trinity Sunday10:15 am Swannington Holy Communion
Sidesperson: Mary Gurteen. Reader: Pam Smith. Coffee: April Rust
18th June10:15 am Great Witchingham Holy Communion
25th June10:15 am Alderford Holy Communion
2nd July10:15 am Weston Longville Holy Communion
It was announced on Sunday 14th May that the new Team Rector Designate of theReepham and Wensum Valley Team is to be The Revd Keith Rengert, who is currentlythe Rector of Horsham St Faith, Spixworth and Crostwick. It is hoped he will be licensedsometime in September. Excellent news!
Wensum Benefice
If you wish to book a baptism or wedding, or need informationregarding services in your church, please contact your churchwarden:
Swannington: Antoinette Watts 860586
Attlebridge: Virginia Furness 860786
Alderford: Mick Evans 860887
Gt Witchingham: Janet Houlston 872251
Local events
Saturday 17th June 7:30 pm
Film Showing: La La Land (12A) at WestonLongville Hall for All. £5 entry on the dooror to book tickets: [email protected]
Sunday 25th June 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Swannington in Bloom - open gardensevent. See front page for further details.
Tuesday 20th June 7:45 pm
Reepham and District Gardening Club.Mark Webster : The hidden beautifulgreen spaces of mid-Norfolk
Thinking Ahead….Dates for Your Diary
Saturday 8th July 7:30 pmIceni concert choir in concert (Schubert,Mendelssohn, Wagner and others) St David’schurch, Thorpe End. Entry £10 includingrefreshments. Tel: 01603 300093
Saturday 15th July 7:30 pmFilm at Weston Longville Hall for All: Lion (PG)
PILGRIMPilgrim is published ten times a year and delivered free toevery household in the villages. Thank you to our distributors.It is supported by voluntary contributions which will bewelcomed by your distributor. (Please make cheques payable toAttlebridge, Alderford and Swannington Newsletter A/C). Yourhelp is important as printing costs continue to rise.
The next issue, covering October will be published at the end ofJune. Please have news (particularly of new arrivals in the villages)copy or advertisements with us by June 15th.
The editors arePam and Jeremy Smith, 4 Broad Lane, Swannington. NR9 5NH;
Tel: 01603 860342e-mail: [email protected]
If you mislay your copy of the Pilgrim, you will always find a pdfversion available on the website:
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