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MABLETHORPE’S MAGAZINE FOR JUNE & JULY 2019
DAWN SERVICE IN MABLETHORPE MARKING ANZAC DAY
tidings Is printed at the
Coastal Centre 32 Victoria Road LN12 2AQ
01507 479 165 [email protected]
THE COASTAL CENTRE:
MABLETHORPE’S TOURIST INFORMATION POINT
Keep up to date with all that’s happening… on line at www.coastalbreeze.co.uk
Download each issue of tidings from www.mablethorpe.info
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THE FLOWER BOX 23 Victoria Road, Mablethorpe LN12 2AF
01507 472 239
Member of Direct 2 Florist
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www.choiceproperties.co.uk
21 Victoria Road
Mablethorpe LN12 2AF
If you are thinking of moving,
why not give us a call?
01507 472 016
Kurnia AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
www.kurniaap.co.uk
Pete Green & Sons
Coastside Plumbing
2 Knowle Street Mablethorpe LN12 2BG
01507 472 817
mob 07748 483 761
Bathrooms
Showers
Plumbing spares
Radiators
Design
& installation
services
A FAMILY RUN CARAVAN PARK
ideally situated in North Mablethorpe
next to the sand dunes & beach
perfect for picnics & play
with pitches
for privately owned holiday homes
& a select number
of touring caravans & motorhomes.
The Tow Bar is open to the public
for a quiet drink in comfortable surroundings.
01507 473 327
www.holivans.co.uk
Dents-Direct Paintless Dent Repair
Howard Turner 34, Marine Avenue Sutton-on-Sea
07977 093 824
Covering East Lindsey
A Convenient Mobile Service
For Both Private & Trade Customers
Mablethorpe Weekly Market
For a real ‘street market’ experience
A wide range and variety of
stalls and goods available
MABLETHORPE & SUTTON TOWN COUNCIL The Council will meet at 7pm on Monday 17th June & Monday 22nd July
in the Library & Community Access Point’s Community Room Stanley Avenue LN12 1DP & informally in the Meridale Centre in Sutton-on-Sea on Monday 8th July.
Members of the public are welcome & encouraged to attend all these meetings.
Visit every Thursday
throughout the year
Operated by Mablethorpe & Sutton Town Council;
For further information please call 01507 613 646
or e-mail [email protected]
HONOURED FOR WORK WITH THE RNLI
One of the firs tasks of our new Mayor, Cllr Carl Tebbutt, was an extremely pleasant one: to present the Gregory Cup to
TOM FREEMAN who was nominated by the public to be given this award by the Town Council in recognition of his services to our community: his voluntary selfless work for the RNLI.
Pictured here with Tom & the Mayor is Mike Gregory [RIGHT] representing the family from whom the cup takes its name. Among the accolades for Tom was one from Mike’s mother-in-law, one of our previous mayors, Joyce Taylor who wrote on how much Tom desreved the award, saying to him, “You are a true Hero! Thank you for all your years of dedicated service.”
A profile of Carl appears on page 5.
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seduction of a nun: MEASURE FOR MEASURE
& at 7pm on Saturday & Sunday 27th & 28th July
Andre Rieu: Maastricht 2019 SHALL WE DANCE
Marigold Cottage Garden Hotchin Road, Sutton-on-Sea LN12 2NP
Sat & Sun 22nd & 23rd June ~ 20th & 21st July £3 Entry: Home made teas available
Open also each Thursday afternoon 2 to 5pm £4 including Tea & Cake
www.rabylee.uk/marigold or ring 442 151
The Louth 01507 479 834 www.thelouth.co.uk
The Louth is the friendly pub in Mablethorpe town centre, just a short walk from the beach. A great place to eat, drink and be entertained
whether you are a local or a holiday maker
exploring the Lincolnshire coast.
We host Darts on Tuesdays & Thursdays, Dominoes on Wednesdays & Pool on Sundays as well as Disco Karaoke
from 10pm on Wednesdays & from 9pm on Fridays & Saturdays.
SNACK ATTACK Mablethorpe’s Central Takeaway Café
38 High Street LN12 1AD
□ Teas & Coffees □ Latte □ Cold Drinks □ □ All Day Breakfasts □ Paninis □ Jacket Potatos □
The Place to Be for a Bite To Eat
Philip Ross Accountants Limited Mablethorpe Accountants and Business Advisors
Personal tax return after retirement? Running wages?
Accounts? VAT returns? Book-keeping?
If you think we might be able to help do get in touch:
01507 472727 Mobile: 0777 841 0000
Paul Nicholson Joinery All Domestic work carried out including repairs, kitchens, bedrooms, windows, doors, fencing, decking, 1st&2nd fix & more
07780945622 / 01507443867 [email protected]
QUICK PRINTING FOR THE COMMUNITY Booklets, flyers, posters, (up to A3)
tickets, programmes
designed & run off at a low cost.
PLUS Shredding, laminating & guillotining
CONTACT THE COASTAL CENTRE 32 Victoria Road, Mablethorpe LN12 2AQ
01507 479 165
MYSTERY PHOTO FROM AROUND 1957
THE MAKING OF A MAYOR
Carl moved from Loughborough to Mablethorpe in 1975, & here he has set up two businesses first serving as a Town Councillor in 1989. For nine years he was Chair of the Carnival Committee. In 2012 he resigned from the Council frustrated by the lack of progress being made. Despite the way Mablethorpe had, in his words, “punched above our weight”, he witnessed the Council “constantly going over old matters & difficulty in getting decisions through.” What was needed, he is quoted as having said then, was “some foresight & investment into leisure facilities to give the place a kick start.”
This is exactly what is on the table now with the pledge
of major funding for the Station Sports Centre. And in the new Council Carl has a strong team behind him: fresh new faces, supported by the experience of the long serving councillors Bernard Dobbs & Janet Cook. Also alongside Carl will be his consort Cllr Helen Parkhurst & the new Deputy Mayor Cllr Colin Matthews.
Carl’s chosen charities will be the Meridale Youth Club & the Men’s Shed. For 25 years he has been active on the soccer scene as a team manager, a club chairman & a referee. Having moved to Sutton-on-Sea in 2004 (where his home overlooks the playing field) Carl is now active in promoting walking football with a growing number of older members of the community enjoying taking part each Tuesday evening.
Carl is very much looking forward to a busy mayoral year meeting many members of our community.
And if you have a feeling when you meet him that you have encountered him before, that’s because as a side-line Carl plays extras in adverts & TV shows… depicting both Criminals ~ & grandees.
Recently you might have spotted him in the acclaimed BBC costume drama “Victoria”. A M A Y O R
W AN T E D
CONGRATULATIONS ON ELECTORAL SUCCESS
The Labour Party swept the board in the elections to the East Lindsey District Council on May 2nd.
Congratulations go to Graham Cullen, [LEFT] who was the councillor with the most votes in the whole of the District (989).
Re-elected with him was Tony Howard [BELOW LEFT] (848), & a new councillor, Claire Newman (720) [RIGHT].
We extend to each of them good wishes in shouldering the task of working for our whole community.
To contact one of those who represent Mablethorpe on the District & Town Councils, call in to the Coastal Centre on a Tuesday morning between 10am & noon.
Appointments at other times can be arranged.
One of the issues on councillors’ in-tray at the moment is a difficulty facing those relying on public transport.
PUBLIC TRANSPORT PROBLEMS
The new Stagecoach InterConnect bus time table is now in operation linking up the whole of the coastline with Mablethorpe in the middle. The 59 links us up with Skegness & the 51 links us with Grimsby. This has the advantage of our being able to go direct to the Louth Hospital & the Princess Diana Hospital in Grimsby. Both buses also go to the Ferryboat, the Seal Sanctuary & Golden Sands with a convenient stop at the Loewen Cinema. However, a stop at the North Sea Observatory means that the journey for those wishing to go direct to Skegness takes longer: while the useful link in Louth to Lincoln has gone: Instead of being able to catch the Lincoln bus as soon as the Mablethorpe bus arrives you now have to wait for an hour… And it can be an even longer wait when you return.
There is, nevertheless, still a way of arriving in Lincoln in time to have an hour or so’s shopping or to catch a train. This is facilitated by the Hunts 96X bus which leaves the stop by the Co-op at 8am getting to Spilsby via Sutton-on-Sea & Alford just over an hour later at 9-05. The 9-32am 56 InterConnect from Skegness then takes you to Lincoln getting in at 10-50am. Coming back you would have to leave Lincoln at 1pm to wait 45 minutes in Spilsby for the last 96A bus to Mablethorpe which leaves at 3-05pm arriving in Mablethorpe at 4-30pm. Otherwise it is a matter of catching the 4-20pm 56 from Lincoln to Skegness. It arrives in Skegness at 6-20pm in time to catch the last 6-35pm 59 bus which arrives in Mablethorpe at 7-47pm. All this is wonderful if you like looking at the Lincolnshire countryside… but not if you want to spend more time at your destination than you spend travelling! Representations are being made to our bus companies.
As this issue of TIDINGS is rolling off the press a new six-part series is starting on ITV. Shot in Boston (& also at locations nearer us) WILD BILL tells the story of a high-flying US cop Bill Hixon parachuted into Lincolnshire.
WILL BOSTON BECOME THE NEW
BROADCHURCH?
The top cop is appointed Chief Constable of the East Lincolnshire Police Force with the dual task of reducing the area’s soaring crime figures while making the cuts an austerity budget requires. He has a feisty 14 year-old daughter & he seems to have taken on the county’s problems to exorcise his own. Unimpressed by his US credentials & not keen on a Sheriff coming from across the Atlantic on a pilgrimage to clean up the town, the community forces Bill to question everything about himself leaving him asking whether it’s Boston that needs Bill, or Bill that needs Boston?
Bill [LEFT] is played by Rob Lowe (“West Wing” etc), while his Deputy [RIGHT], over-looked, presumably due to racial prejudice, is Nottingham’s Anjli Mohindra (“Dark Heart” & “Bodyguard”).
The Police & Crime Commissioner is Tony Pitts (“Line of Duty”), & the local journalist is Angela Griffin (“Coronation Street” & “Waterloo Road”).
The barrister & daughter of an aristocratic Lincolnshire family [RIGHT] with whom Hixon has the rather predictable affair, is Diana Rigg’s daughter Rachael Stirling (“The Bletchley Circle”, “Tipping the Velvet”, & “Snow White & the Huntsman”).
Over the next six weeks we may well be asking whether this the Boston we know? Or whether the problems that create the series’ plot-line are a little too close for comfort?!!
Here is a brand new bistro style venue open to the public 7 days a week.
With a relaxed bar, a lakeside terrace, & also a pet friendly eating area, it is committed to offering the best locally & ethically sourced seasonal dishes.
Grange Farm Park Maltby-le-Marsh LN13 0JP www.grangefarmpark.co.uk
Poplar Farm Vintage Tea Room & Craft Barn
Holiday Cottages & Touring Caravan & Camping Site
Crabtree Lane, Sutton-on-Sea LN12 2RS
07894 292 641
www.poplar-farm.org.uk
In the Farm Shop: Fine coastal honey, home-made jams,
preserves, chutneys & jellies
Local cheese & cordials & artisan craftware
In the Craft Barn: Pottery painting, mosaics, candle-making, painting, felting
In the Tea Room: Taste of Lincolnshire Afternoon Teas
Home-made cakes, fine teas & coffees
Light breakfasts & lunches
Fresh home-grown produce
9am to 5pm on Bank Holiday week-ends,
& on Saturdays & Sundays until the end of June
…. & then open daily until the end of August
THE SAME PHOTO WITH DIFFERENT CAPTIONS ON THE FRONT PAGES OF NATIONAL NEWSPAPERS
95 year old Jack Quinn, who, with his wife Shirley, lives in Mablethorpe’s Regent Road, & is a former President of our branch of the Royal British Legion, caught the attention of the world media on the 75th anniversary of D-Day with this moving photo. As a Corporal in the Royal Marines he was involved in the construction of the “Mulberry harbours” [PICTURED BELOW] which historian & author Guy Walters has described as “a classic example of British ingenuity & inventiveness for my money right up there with the bouncing bomb & radar.” “We wondered what they were at first,
when we saw them.” said Jack. “‘What are they going to do with them?’ we asked & were told, ‘They are going to load men & vehicles on them.’ “We were surprised they towed them all that way. But the soldiers were glad to get in a lorry & drive off a Mulberry harbour instead of getting in a landing craft & getting wet through. Speed was the essence.” So indeed was the hard graft put in by so many like Jack. We can only echo the head-lines: THANK YOU TO OUR HEROES!
It’s well worth while to take the opportunity to visit this remarkable Victorian building:
Gayton Engine Pumping Station, Whichhouses machinery that has been used to pump flood water from the Marshes for well over 100 years. Here you can see in operation the 1933 two stroke diesel engine & Gwynnes pump … along with other exhibits on display in the station’s museum.
JUST THE PLACE FOR A FASCINATING EXPERIENCE ON A SUNDAY AFTERNOON!
You can find the station easily. It’s set back on the south side of the main road between Mablethorpe & Louth at Theddlethorpe All Saints, Thacker Bank LN12 1PE. Dogs are welcome, there’s a picnic area & parking for the disabled & coaches. The visit along with the parking is entirely free of charge (though donations are welcome.)
The dates this year are the Sundays of 16th June, 21st July (when other engines will also be on display, & refreshments will be served), 18th August, plus the Heritage Week-end 14th & 15th September.
Info: 01507 328 095
AND NOW WE COME TO OUR WET WEATHER FEATURES WHEN DRAINAGE WORK HAS HAD TO BE WORKING FULL TILT!
Bobby Baldwin of the North Beach’s Café has provided us with the first photo below...
…while Cllr Steffy Carruthers has supplied the one on the right: NO COMMENT!
WEATHER FORECAST
What do we do at Smartie Pants? We use it as a learning opportunity! The children started counting the drips & making tally charts to find out which bucket is filling up the fastest!
TURNING WET PLAY INTO WET EDUCATION
SMARTIE PANTS DAY NURSERY [in Ruskin Road]
tells how they rose to the challenge of our recent appalling weather…
So it’s cold, wet & miserable & we have leaks appearing everywhere:
Unfortunately, such was the weather it looked as though bigger buckets would be needed as well as more paper!
Unfortunately, such was the weather it looked as though bigger buckets would be needed as well as more paper!
Although we did get to jump & splash in some puddles for a short while we mostly did have to play indoors. So continuing our theme of physical development we created an indoor obstacle course [SEE PHOTO RIGHT!]. Lots of twisting, bending, stretching, balancing & using our whole bodies & minds to tackle the course!
And there were also great examples of initiative: using a cushion as an umbrella [LEFT]
And of OPTIMISM: Note the sun-glasses
[RIGHT]!
ROLL ON THE SUMMER!
Wet rooms•Shower enclosure •Wall panelling
Easy access baths•Accessible kitchens
Every day living aids•Wheel chairs & scooters
To arrange a FREE home visit call Steve
01472 753 435 or 07947 392 228
Or visit us on Facebook @aquacaremobility
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VISIT FORTY WINKS 17 VICTORIA ROAD 01507 478 236
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The Bar, Dance Club & Night Club at
5-7 Victoria Road LN12 2AF
01507 479 818
Open 11am to midnight
JESTERS
We will be offering
the following entertainment & events
throughout the season:
Monday & Tuesday: 12 NOON to 6pm
GRANDCASTLES AT THE DUNES
Wednesday: 6 to 8pm: KIDZ CLUB
Friday nights: Family fun night
Activities start 7.30pm
then throughout the night…
Karaoke & Pig/dog/horse racing
Quizzes & fun competitions inc
“Do you know your partner???”
Saturday nights:
6 to 8pm: KIDZ CLUB
live entertainment from 8.30pm
Sunday
Lunch Carvery : 01507 479 999
1.30pm - 3.30pm CASH BINGO
Hold your function in 2019
at the Dunes Complex!
The small private room
can hold 40
The large Theatre /Function Room
can hold 120 seated
or 200 for a Disco
Prices start at £5.95 a head
for a cold buffet
JOKERS’ CORNER Eight kids were too many & the cost of rising prices was getting Fred down. He told his wife if they had any more kids he would go out of his mind with worry. A week later his wife announced that she was pregnant.
“That’s the end,” lamented Fred. He opened the drawer beneath his desk & pulled out a revolver & held it to his head.
“Stop,” cried his wife. “You’ll be killing an innocent man.”
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE LITTLE GEMS: NOW ON THE WORLD STAGE!
Little Gems Academy England team have just got back from America & ranked world class 1st! One of our dancers also bagged herself a £90,000 scholarship to train in LA America also! If you would like to dance for fun or as a career Little Gems offers lessons for children aged 2
through to adult. To audition ring 07443 575 423
THE MABLETHORPE ILLUMINATIONS Saturday 27th July
All is set for a stunning day of celebration
with FIREWORKS & the SWITCH ON in the evening & the Sutton-on-Sea & Trusthorpe Carnival
the following day. Traders who would like to apply for
one of the Illuminations Day Market Stalls should ring Sue Archibald on 01507 613 644. They will be expected to set up from 10am & close down at 6pm… & to be ready for an exciting day of entertainment & trade! The fee for a stall for the day is just £25.
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THANK YOU ONCE MORE to members of
MABLETHORPE IN BLOOM for coming up with yet more ideas to make our town both beautiful & interesting! The latest planting depicts the RED ARROWS reminding them if they see it from the air that
we want them to stay in our county!
SEA VIEW CAR PARK QUEBEC ROAD LN12 1LT [email protected]
WEDNESDAYS 19th June 3rd July 17th July 7th August 21st August 4th September 18th September
Mablethorpe Coastguards have a new mascot joining the crew. He currently has no name and that’s where you come in! We are giving you all the chance to name our mascot… So go on to the Coastguard Facebook page & make your suggestion. A name from all the suggestions will chosen by the team in July & the winner will be invited to come & meet the team & have their picture taken (maybe a surprise gift too)
MABLETHORPE CARNIVAL PROGRAMME 2019 THEME: KINGS & QUEENS
Friday 2nd August 7pm at Social 22: Crowning of the Carnival Queen Saturday 3rd August 10am at the Coastal Centre: Coffee Morning
Wednesday 7th August 3 to 5pm at Queen’s Park: Teddy Bear’s Picnic
Friday 9th August 4 to 6pm at the Station Sports Centre: YouthFest This is the start of a three day event
staged with the support of a grant from Cllr Terry Brown & with the help of the Lincoln YMCA & the Arts Council funded LIVE & LOCAL
It continues on Saturday 10th August 2 to 5pm on the Sutton-on-Sea Promenade & on Sunday 11th August 2 to 5pm on North Beach by Bobby’s Café
with Parkour equipment & a tight-rope walking display!
Saturday 17th August 2pm from Mr G’s to Queen’s Park: Puppies on the Prom Wednesday 28th August 3pm at the Loewen Cinema: Tudor Royalty Part One
Saturday 31st August 1pm at Holivans: Dog Show Sunday 1thSeptember 3pm at the Aquapark: Aquapark Challenge TBC Wednesday 4thSeptember 3pm at the Loewen Cinema: Tudor Royalty Part Two Saturday 7th September 10am at the Coastal Centre: Coffee Morning
6 to 8pm at Queen’s Park: Stunt Bike Demonstration Saturday 14th September 11am on the Funfair: Carnival Opening Ceremony
Sunday 15th September 3pm : 6pm at the Mirage: Bowling Contest Monday 16th September 3pm at the Salvation Army: Tea & Queen Mother Contest Tuesday 17th September 5pm on Queen’s Park: Model Boat Display Wednesday 18th September 5 to 8pm on the Seaview Car Park: Carnival Bike Night Thursday 19th September 6pm with the Cadets: BBQ Friday 20th September 5pm in Spanish City: Friday Night is Music Night with Good Company
Saturday 21st September 11am to 5pm on the South Promenade: Bathing Beauties 3pm from Queen’s Park: The Carnival Parade 8pm on the North Beach: Firework Display
Sunday 22nd September 11am to 5pm on the South Promenade: Bathing Beauties TO BOOK A BATHING BEAUTY CRAFT STALL RING 479 165
TO BOOK A CHARITY OR COMMERCIAL STALL ON PARADE DAY RING 0746 501 276 TO ENTER THE PARADE RING 07704 066 951
TO HELP RAISE CARNIVAL FUNDS RING CLLR STEPHANIE CARRUTHERS ON 07718 208 400 THE TIME & TIDE BELL has now been installed just north of the Seal Sanctuary.
To celebrate it all are invited to party on the shore by it on the Evening of Midsummer 21st June.
TWO FURTHER PHOTOGRAPHS IN ADDITION TO THE ONE ON OUR FRONT PAGE
OF THIS YEAR’S ANZAC DAY COMMEMORATION
MABLETHORPE
The internationally recognized Blue Flag status is awarded each June & Mablethorpe is one of the 68 UK beaches given the award this year.
To receive the award 33 criteria have to be met.
These include Environmental Education & Information (which may be displayed on a map), Environmental Management (including public toilets), Water Quality, & Safety & Services such as accessibility & the availability of drinking water, but in particular the patrol of the beach by lifeguards. Only four other beaches in the East Midlands received the award this year: the central beaches of Cleethorpes, Sutton-on-Sea, & Skegness, & Ingoldmells south.
THE BLUE FLAG FLIES ABOVE OUR BEACH ONCE MORE
requires Princes & Princesses to attend this year’s Queen Chelsea Beech pictured here with a tiger at a coffee morning in aid of the Carnival.
PARENTS of prospective candidates should ring Christine James: 07504 066 951
