Issue 27 December 2008
Stanton on the Wolds Parish Council
Parish Council Members:
Margaret Healy, Chairman 914 8654 Jim Goodman , Vice-chairman 937 3076
Bryan Baines, 937 2197 Angela Benney 937 6369 Roy Butler 937 2508
Alex McKee, 937 5068 and Michael Sheriston 937 5652
Clerk:
Mike Elliott, 19/21 Mains Street, Keyworth, Nottingham NG12 5AA, phone 937 6506
or Email elliottnews@btconnect.com
What is Christmas?
It is tenderness from the past
courage for the present
hope for the future.
It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal and that every path may lead to peace.
Agnes M Pharo
Stanton speedwatch group is on the way
A campaign to get support for the establishment of a Speed Watch group for Stanton has proved a success. Councillor Jim Goodman reported to the last meeting of the parish council that eleven people had come forward to volunteer for the necessary training to use the speed monitor device and Inspector Francis Meylan of the Nottinghamshire Police was organising training sessions for them.
The parish council has agreed to meet the cost of purchase of the necessary reflective coats to be worn by the volunteers when on duty and the signs needed to be erected to advise motorists that the scheme is in progress.
Checks are likely to be taken on Melton Road, Browns Lane and Stanton Lane.
The establishment of the monitor team follows strong concerns expressed by residents on the dangers caused by the speed of vehicles on the roads concerned. The monitor device to be used will be the one based at Bingham Police Station and so no charge is involved in that. If the parish council purchases its own unit the cost would be around £800.
'No' to new bridleways
A request from Widmerpool Parish Council for an extension of the bridleway network to take in routes in Stanton on the Wolds has been rejected by the council at Stanton. It felt there would be too many obstacles in obtaining the necessary support from land owners.
Housing Needs survey to be looked at
An approach to the parish council by Midlands Rural Housing on the subject of a Local Housing Needs survey is to be discussed at the next meeting of the council on January 14th 2009.
Midlands Rural Housing are working with Rushcliffe Borough Council to see what need exists in all parishes in the Borough for shared housing schemes.
The properties concerned would only be available to people with a strong connection to the parish or who work in the parish.
Similar schemes have been completed at East Bridgford and Shelford among others.
Funding support from Rushcliffe
Rushcliffe Borough Council have given the parish council £250 towards the cost of a flowers and shrubs planting scheme on the area around the village sign at the junction of Browns Lane and Stanton Lane.
The parish council have also agreed to spend £60 on daffodil bulbs to be planted around the parish.
New signs
Planning permission has been given by Rushcliffe Borough Council for two internally illuminated free standing display units to be sited at the Wolds Service Station on Melton Road at Stanton on the Wolds.
Mystery cleaner
Members of the parish council at their last meeting welcomed the fact that the village sign on Stanton Lane had been cleaned - but didn't know who to thank for the work.
It was felt it was either a local resident or Notts County Council but no one had seen the operation carried out and so the answer remains a mystery.
Stanton on the Wolds War Heroes
"This is perhaps an opportunity to mention three local heroes. Brothers Joseph and Leonard Hatherley, the sons of Joseph and Phoebe Hatherley of Stanton on the Wolds, and Tom Henry Kemp also from Stanton on the Wolds.
Leonard enlisted as Private 13912 in the 1st Bt. Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment). Brother Joseph enlisted as Private 28062 in the 1st Bt. North Staffordshire Regiment, whilst Tom became Private 201378 in the 1st Bt. Royal Scots Fusiliers.
Early in 1915 the 1st Bt. of the Sherwood Foresters were in action in the Merville area of France (Lille/Arras) and later heavily committed in a battle at Neuve Chapelle where the British losses on three days amounted to 2527 dead and over 8000 wounded. Sadly Leonard, then aged 18, was amongst the dead.
Tom and the 1st Bt. Royal Scots Fusiliers were brought into action in June and July 1917 at the Battle of Messners Ridge - again in the general area of Lille/Arras. Although this action was considered successful, amongst those killed was Tom, aged 20.
Having survived most of the war Joseph Hatherley became involved in a battle referred to as a period of crisis for the allied troops. On the 21st March 1918 the 1st Bt. North Staffordshire Regiment had formed part of the Fifth Army occupying part of the former Somme battlefield near Pozieres. At 04:40am that morning the quietness was shattered by the cataclysmic roar of the vast artillery bombardment as thousands of German guns opened fire on the British lines. At 09:40am the German infantry advanced through the smoke and mist overrunning the British troops. The Fifth Army's position, including the North Staffs suffered severe losses, which sadly included that of Joseph Hatherley".
Three local heroes who "laid down their lives for their friends". As we heard in the reading from the Book of Wisdom these three are at peace where no torment can touch them - along with all the other heroes. (An extract from the Remembrance Day sermon by Malcolm Holmes, Reader, All Saints Parish Church).
Bits and Bobs
Services at All Saints Parish Church, Stanton on the Wolds for Christmas are:-
Evensong on Sunday December 14th at 6pm
Carol Service on Sunday December 21st at 6pm
Christmas Day parish communion at 10am
On Christmas Eve Keyworth Parish Church is staging a Crib Service at 2.30pm and a Carol Service at 7.30pm.
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BGS at Keyworth are staging their annual Christmas Carol Service on Wednesday 17th December at 11am. Tours will be conducted around the Keyworth site from 09:30am concluding in time to attend the service. Free tickets for the Concert alone and the Concert and Tour are available from the BGS Reception. Children from Keyworth Primary School will be joining in the celebrations as well.
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A Concert is to be held in Bradmore Methodist Church on Saturday 13th December at 7.15pm to raise money for the Bunny St Mary's Church Steeple Fund. Tickets at £5 include a highly recommended buffet supper. Tickets can be purchased on the door.
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Thanks were given by the parish council chairman Mrs Margaret Healy to Councillors Roy Butler and Bryan Baines for their input to the Remembrance Day Service at the parish church in November.
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The parish council has appointed a Planning Committee to oversee the discussions on all planning applications that are received by the council. Members appointed are Councillors Mrs Margaret Healy, Jim Goodman, Roy Butler and Mrs Angela Benney. Meetings of the committee will be open for the public to attend.
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A request by the parish council for funding towards improvements to the entrance road from Browns Lane towards the parish church has been made to Notts County Council. A decision on the request which has been supported by local member Councillor John Cottee is expected during January 2009
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The parish council has given a warm vote of thanks to local resident Alan Hunt for all the work he carries out to ensure the village website is up to date. Scores of hits are made on the site every week including a number from abroad.
The Stanton Waters
by Alan and Val Hunt
The Waters family were just one of many families living in the “Railway Huts” along Browns Lane during the mid 1870s when the Midland Railway was being constructed. The marriage of Alfred and Annie Waters ( nee Keen) took place on the 17th August 1869 at St Martin’s Parish Church, Kentish Town, London. The husband, Alfred, was born in Bloxham, near Banbury, Oxfordshire in 1840 the son of a brick maker and at the time of his marriage he gives his occupation as a brick maker, whilst his wife Annie Keen was born in 1850 at Hastings, Sussex. Annie’s father was also a brick maker from Leicester. Their first child, Alfred was born at Kentish Town in Middlesex in 1866.
We first find the family in the 1871 Census where they were living on the Ingleton Fells in West Yorkshire. Their address is given as 74 Sebastopol. On research, this address turns out to be one of several ‘shanty towns’, along with Jericho, Jordan, Inkerman, Blea Moor and Batty Wife Hole, put up on the Yorkshire Moors during the construction of the Settle to Carlisle railway. Men at the Sebastopol camp were employed on the construction of the famous Ribbleshead Viaduct.
A year later their second son John was born in the Sebastopol shanty and another son William was born on the Fells in November 1873. We know that work on the viaduct finished in 1875 so Alfred, Annie and family came to Stanton where Alfred had found work on the Midland Railway line being constructed from a junction just north of Melton Mowbray to Nottingham.
A fourth son, Walter, was baptised at All Saints on the 15th December 1875. A year later Arthur Ernest Albert was baptised at All Saints on the 1st October 1876 together with his older brothers William and John. A sister Sophia Ada was born at Stanton in 1877 however there is no record of her baptism at All Saints. The Stanton Parish Registers’ record of the baptism give Alfred’s occupation as railway bricklayer. It is possible that work on this section of the new railway line and the Stanton tunnel was drawing to a close and that the family had moved further up the line or had gone to a completely different construction site.
Arthur Ernest Albert Waters died from bronchitis as an infant aged 11 weeks and was interred at All Saints on the 26th November 1876. Walter Waters died on the 15th June 1878 aged 3 years and was interred at All Saints on the 19th June 1878. His death was the subject of a Coroners Order. The inquest was held on the 17th June and the Coroner reported that the little boy had died from suffocation after falling into a cesspit next door to the privy.
The number of labourers employed along the line was initially 1395 men but this was increased to 2215 as bad weather delayed progress. Many workers were put up by the people of Stanton and nearby villages. The contractors also set up a hutted village in Stanton. A ‘Hut’ was wooden with a tarred and felted roof and measured 24 by 16 feet and was divided into three rooms each 8 by 16 feet. They were let to foremen and married navvies who could take in boarders at 13/- (65p) a week for bed, board and washing. One room was the family bedroom, the middle room was the general living room and the third room was for the foreman’s gang of between 10 and 20 navvies who slept in tiered bunks. There is a graphic description of what life was like on the hutted camps on the Yorkshire Moors in “The Victorian Web:-Chapter 13; The Long Drag”. For those with internet access type in the following address:- www.thecore.nus.edu.sg/victorian/history/work/sullivan/13.html which itself is an extract from the book “Navvyman” by Dick Sullivan, published 1983 by Coracle Press.
The next record we have of our family was in the Census of 1881 when we see Alfred and Annie living in railway huts at Wymington in Bedfordshire, close to Wellingborough during the construction of tracks through the Sharnbrook tunnel. One son, William aged 7 years and their daughter Sophia Ada aged 4 years, were with them. Another daughter, Harriet was born in 1883 at Sharnbrook in Bedfordshire. On the 13th of July 1884 Annie gave birth at Hook Norton in Oxfordshire to another son later christened James, however the birth must have been difficult as she died the same day from post-partum haemorrhage. By the time of the 1891 Census, Alfred now widowed was living at Friern Barnet near Enfield with four of his children. The last record we have of Alfred is in the 1901 Census when he was living with his son John, an engine driver, and John’s wife Annie and their two boys in East Ham, Essex. It really was ‘a life on the move’.
YOUR LOCAL CHURCHES
Stanton on the Wolds Parish Church: Rev. Jim Wellington, tel 0115 937 2017.
Catholic Church, Willowbrook: Fr Peter Vellacott, 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.