Issue 21 June 2007
Stanton on the Wolds Parish Council
Parish Council Members:
Margaret Healy, Chairman 914 8654 Jim Goodman , Vice-chairman 937 3076
Bryan Baines, 937 2197 Roy Butler 937 2508 Dennis Hackett, 937 2569
Alex McKee, 937 5068 and Mike Sheriston 937 5652
Clerk:
Mike Elliott, 19/21 Mains Street, Keyworth, Nottingham NG12 5AA, phone 937 6506
or Email elliottnews@btconnect.com
WEB SITE UP AND RUNNING
and it earns early praise
Stanton's own village web site is up and running and already it is earning lots of praise for its content and design.
The web site has been put together on behalf of the parish council by Alan and Val Hunt of Melton Road and they have been thanked for their efforts. The site highlights the importance of current and former Stanton residents logging on to see its contents, with many of the latter being from their new homes all over the country.
See story overside on page 2 on the background to the website.
NEW
MEMBER FOR THE PARISH COUNCIL
-and a lady chairman
A new Councillor has joined Stanton on the Wolds Parish Council that came into office on May 7th- and it has a lady chairman following the election of Mrs Margaret Healy of Browns Lane.
The council at Stanton has seven seats and as there were just seven nominations for them, there was no need for an election.
All existing members except Councillor Alan Jackson were re-elected and one new name appears on the list, that of Mr Michael Sheriston of 146 Melton Road, Stanton on the Wolds. He has attended his first meeting and been welcomed to the council by the new chairman. It is believed Mrs Healy is the first lady chairman to be appointed to the council. She was vice chairman to the retiring chairman Councillor Dennis Hackett. Councillor Jim Goodman is the new vice chairman of the council.
WELCOME MOVE IS WELCOMED !
A MOVE by the Parish Council to 'welcome' new residents to the village with an official welcome by the parish council has gone down well. A letter of welcome from the council and a copy of the recently published history book are being delivered to newcomers as soon as councillors are aware of their arrival.
REVISED CODE OF CONDUCT IS ADOPTED
Parish councillors at Stanton have adopted the new Code of Conduct that came into effect on May 3rd this year. The main change is that a member of the council having to clear a prejudicial interest, will no longer be barred from making a statement on the item in question and being questioned on it by members. And any member of the public wishing to comment on that item will be allowed to do so and also be questioned by the council.
HISTORY BOOK STILL ON SALE
Sales of the recently published Stanton on the Wolds History Book have topped the 200 mark. Copies are still available for purchase from members of the council and the clerk from his office at Keyworth.
YOUR LOCAL POLICE BEAT MANAGER
is PC Rob Inglis. He has taken over at least temporarily from PC Emma Thacker who has been away on maternity leave.
The Stanton Chickens
By Alan & Val Hunt
Anyone who has looked at the village Census returns for 1901 may have spotted a couple of very unusual surnames; Liddlelow and Chicken. Charles Thomas Liddlelow married Mary Anne Butler in Nottingham in the autumn of 1874. By 1901 they appear in the Stanton on the Wolds Census aged 57 and 53 years. Charles gave his occupation as a “Civil Engineer” and his place of birth as Norfolk. He was actually born in 1842 in the village of Barnham Broom in Norfolk. After his marriage in Nottingham in 1874 he is next recorded as living with his wife Mary at Winscales House, Winscales in Cumberland in the 1881 Census. The recorded use of the surname ‘Liddlelow’ in the 1901 Census is almost exclusively found in Norwich with only two other occurrences; Charles who was in Stanton and a Charlotte who was resident in Islington, London. One set of Liddlelow parents had a penchant for unusual Christian names as a girl was baptised Easter Maria Liddlelow and a boy was baptised Henry Christmas Riches Liddlelow !
On the night of the 1901 Census, Charles and Mary Anne Liddlelow had two nieces and a nephew staying with them. The girls Katherine Mary Chicken and Grace Chicken were aged 15 and 7 years and their brother Rupert Thomas Chicken was 11 years old. Historically, the surname ‘Chicken’ is found centred around Newcastle and Gateshead in the N.E of England. In the 1881 Census a Rupert Cecil Chicken is listed as the head of the household at 127 Forest Road West, St Mary, Nottingham. He was unmarried and aged 31 years. His qualifications were given as FRCS Eng (Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons), LRCP Loughborough (Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians), LSA Loughborough (Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries). His household included a lodger, Andrew W.Robson, an undergraduate in medicine who gave his occupation as a dispenser. In the spring of 1885 Rupert married Kate Butler in Nottingham and this marriage produced five children; Katharine Mary in 1885, Margaret who died as an infant in 1886, Cecilia who also died as an infant in 1888, Rupert Thomas in 1890 and Grace in 1893. It was this Katharine, Rupert and Grace that were staying with the Liddlelows in 1901. The family connection between the Liddlelows and the Chickens was that Charles Thomas Liddlelow and Rupert Cecil Chicken married sisters, Mary Anne Butler and Kate Butler.
We are very grateful to David Page of Normanton on the Wolds who let us examine his grandfathers’ rate book for Stanton dating from the late 1890s. Dr Rupert Cecil Chicken is listed as resident at Harwood House from 1898 to 1901 whilst his son Rupert Thomas Chicken was listed as being at Harwood House in the 1902 accounts.
BITS & BOBS
The parish council decided it was not appropriate to enter the Notts Best Kept Village Competition for 2007 but will look at the matter again in the future.
ANY move by Rushcliffe Borough Council to close Keyworth Leisure Centre would be opposed by the parish council.
June Wright is retiring as Bell Tower Captain at Keyworth Parish Church because of ill health.
The next three meetings of the parish council will take place on July 11th, September 5th and November 7th. They take place in the parish church on Browns Lane.
CHURCHWARDENS re-elected at Stanton are Bill Dargue and Ann Rodgers.
UPDATE ON STANTON'S NEW WEBSITE
The new Stanton web site is growing steadily with more material being added all the time. At the moment the site comprises 1,036 separate files organised in 80 folders and occupies just 10.1 Mbytes of web space. Comments and suggestions regarding the content are invited from readers and we would welcome the opportunity to see any photos that could be incorporated says Mr Hunt. It is hoped that in the next Parish Newsletter it will be possible to demonstrate the interest the web site has created from a breakdown of the 'hits' occurring in the first two months of its existence.
Discussing the new site, Mr Hunt says anyone with a home pc can fairly quickly set up a simple web site using one of a number of ISPs (Internet Service Providers or web site hosting services) that offer varying amounts of free web space. For example BT, Tesco, Tiscali, Yahoo and many others. When it comes to producing and organising a parish council web site, few of the smaller councils opt for a domain name registered as a '.gov.uk'. Most have chosen to use the easier option such as a '.co.uk' or an '.org'. The reason for this became abundantly clear, when our Parish Council opted for a '.gov.uk' domain name. First of all the proposed name, in our case http://www.stantononthewoldsparishcouncil.gov.uk had to be approved by the eGovernment web site naming committee in the Cabinet Office. Once this initial hurdle was overcome, one has to choose from a short list of approved Internet Service Providers who are willing to host a '.gov.uk' web site.
Web designers are then required to read and become thoroughly familiar with a formidable tome called "An Illustrated Handbook for Web Management Teams" published by the Cabinet Office that deals with every conceivable aspect of eGovernment. A considerable number of important acts cover various aspects of web site design including the "Data Protection Act", "Disability Discrimination Act", "public Records Act", "Human Rights Act", "Race Relations Act" etc, etc. All proposed web pages have to be checked and validated as suitable for use by people with various disabilities; for instance those who cannot navigate by using a mouse but have to rely on the tab key, those who need to be able to enlarge the type face, plus lots of other considerations. All Government sites must also be PICS rated (PICS is the Platform for Internet Content). Our site was rated by ICRA (Internet Content Rating Association), in each of seven categories; nudity, sexual material, violence, bad language, tobacco or gambling advertising and chat. We attained the lowest rating in all categories and the site has been officially "labelled" as such when home pcs run parent-controlled access viewing.
YOUR LOCAL CHURCHES
Stanton on the Wolds Parish Church: Rev. Jim Wellington, tel 0115 937 2017.
Catholic Church, Willowbrook: Fr John Kyne, tel 01509 852147.
Methodists: Rev Peter Green, tel 0115 921 2146.
Baptists: Mrs Barbara Lister tel 0115 937 3565.
United Reformed: Rev Chris Ford, tel 0115 937 5086.
THOUGHT OF THE MONTH
Whispers carry further than words