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Bugbrooke
Scout Group Beavers took advantage of the warm weather in July and played outdoor
games on the field. They made pirate hats in preparation for a pirate
fancy dress party to round off the summer term. Cubs working for their Pet Lover’s badge had a special evening to bring
their pets to the Hut, and give a short talk about them. Dogs, cats and
chickens came in at different times and behaved themselves. Cubs have
continued to work hard, planting the conservation area in the churchyard
for their Global Challenge badge. They enjoyed a family barbecue for
their end of year meeting. Several scouts take part in active sports like rugby, football and
basketball, and they prepared individual presentations to qualify for
their Physical Recreation badge. Jamie brought in his basketball
trophies. Scouts gained their Entertainers’ badge, as they had all
rehearsed for, and acted in the school play, ‘Olivia’; a splendid
performance. Two teams of scouts competed against each other making
paper rockets, which shot remarkably high into the air when propelled by
a rush of air from a jumped-on bottle. They enjoyed a chocolate cake and
washed up and vacuumed afterwards. Explorers have been fire-lighting without matches, striking magnesium
flints to produce a spark. It takes some skill to ignite bubble wrap,
which burns fiercely to give time to light pieces of wood. Explorers and Scouts have the opportunity to attend an air experience day
at Sywell airfield in September, run by the Scout Association. The Scout Group is very grateful to Councillor Joan Kirkbride for a
generous contribution towards furniture for the Scout Hut.
Please visit our website for information: www.bugbrookelink.co.uk/scouts. Margaret Raymond, secretary.
830532 St
Michael & All Angels Autumn Fair – Craft Stalls Saturday 8th November, 2pm at the Community Centre Books, Cakes, Nearly New and Afternoon Tea. Also a stall selling all your
Christmas Wrapping requirements. Tables for private sales may be reserved at £8
per table by calling Gillian on 07761016583
So
I said “Fiori Musicali” and they said “Who …?” Fiori Musicali, founded by Penelope Rapson 25 years
ago, provides high quality professional classical music in rural venues
in Northamptonshire. Operatic
arias, brilliant chamber music or set piece spectaculars, Fiori offer
something for every musical taste. Their
next appearance in the county is in Fawsley church on October 5th when
they are joined by living legend counter-tenor James Bowman in a
programme of Bach, Zelenka and Janitsch.
This starts at 7.00 pm, and there is an optional dinner in
Fawsley Hall afterwards. On
December 7th they perform cantatas by candlelight in St. Lawrence
church, Towcester, and on 23rd December Handel’s Messiah in
Northampton Guildhall. Contact
www.fiori-musicali.com
for full information. Daventry Choral Society will be giving a concert on 29th November to
include Duruflé Requiem and works by Britten and Pergolesi.
Posters will be up shortly in the village. And keep your eyes open for details of a
performance of the Verdi Requiem in Derngate next February, in which
Daventry Choral Society joins with Northampton Bach Choir and the Royal
Philharmonic Orchestra, an evening not to be missed! Upper
Nene Villages 3rd Age Group – Bugbrooke U3A Monday
20th October, Captain Bill Bellamy ‘21 Days in June’ Captain Bellamy served in the 8th Kings Royal Irish
Hussars and took part in the Invasion of German occupied Europe in 1944,
landing on 9th June. His
talk will encompass his experiences of the invasion and his life in the
army. Captain Bellamy's talk, accompanied by a slide presentation, will
be both interesting and illuminating, giving a true insight into what
was a momentous part of World War II
and which, I am sure, will appeal to everyone. Monday
17th November, Dr Kelso, ‘Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow’ Dr Kelso's talk will describe his life as a GP for 35
years in the Towcester area, his involvement in medicine, his views on
the future regarding practice changes and medicine in general. This
information may well enlighten us as to what to expect from our Health
Service in the future. Dr Kelso will welcome questions at the end of his
talk. Meetings
are open to non-members and take place at Bugbrooke Community Centre,
Camp Hill, Bugbrooke on the 3rd Monday of each month at 2.30 p.m. For
further information contact Fay Maddern 01327 352401 Special
Interest Groups: Appreciating Poetry, Art
Group, Literature Club, Book Exchange, Bridge, Collectors Club, Cook and
Eat, French (Intermediate), French Beginners, Spanish Beginners, German
(Intermediate), Music Appreciation + History of Music, Scrabble,
Snooker, Theatre, Writing Family History.
Mr Joseph Hakes
This painting by Stan Clark is of Joseph Hakes emptying
the toilet buckets on his round in Bugbrooke. He had a small barrel of
creosote that he soaked squares of sacking in, and he used these to help
carry the buckets to the cart. He also had a yoke for the times that he
had to carry the buckets a great distance, such as all the way from the
bottom of Gilkes Yard. He worked for Harry Gilkes who had a contract to empty the buckets and when
the cart was full it was spread over those fields within the village
farmed by Mr Gilkes. One of these fields was the first on the right past
the railway bridge down Ham Lane, on the way towards Corn Hill. Another
field was up Camp Hill opposite the eight council houses on the Gayton
Road, where we once lived. He usually did this job at night-time and so
was nick-named (amongst other names) the midnight cart. The smell was
unbelievable! During the Second World War years, because of a dispute, Mr Hakes stopped
doing this job in the dark hours of the evening, and John Gilkes and his
brother Harry started doing this job for a short period. There was no
street lighting so it was quite a problem to see what they were doing or
where they were walking. Many a time the men doing the job would trip and
fall over the edges of the paths and leave quite a smelly old mess, and
sometimes they themselves would fall in amongst it! I remember coming from school during lunch times and walking up Camp Hill
back home for dinner, as we called it in those days. We had to pass Mr
Hakes with his horse and cart and the smell would be somewhat strong. It
was not so bad in the winter months, but in the summer with all the flies,
it was something else! It used to attract the birds like swallows, swifts,
and house martins wherever the cart went, as well as to the fields where
it was emptied. One winter when we had a slide on the ice that went from the top of Camp
Hill to the bottom, Mr Hakes came up the hill with the horse and cart and
walked onto the slide that was covered in snow. The air was not only blue
with the smell, but with language as well. During these very cold winter
spells, the contents of most of the buckets were frozen solid as most of
these closets were out in the cold well away from the houses. When it was
deposited on the open fields the cart left lots of bucket shaped ice
sculptures on the ground. Another thing that would happen when all this effluent was tipped out across
the fields was that the different coloured pieces of newspaper would dry
out and would go wherever the wind had the mind to blow it. The Chronicle
and Echo paper was normally greyish white, but they produced two other
papers. One was pink in colour, and the other was a green sports paper. I
spent hours as a child cutting papers up and threading the squares onto a
piece of string for use in the toilet! Stanley Joseph Clark
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