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14 Buckden Roundabout
June 2019 Village News
Bookings
This month we have two private parties, a wedding recep-
tion, the BJFC presentation evening, a tabletop sale (15th) a
kids’ party and the launch of Round-About-Buckden walk
(9th).
Fundraising Volunteers
Buckden Village Hall Trust is embarking on a new round of
fundraising for much needed maintenance and improve-
ments to the Hall, pavilion and playing fields. The Trust is
looking for people who are willing to help with this and
bring their expertise with them! For more information,
please see the separate article on page 7.
Don’t forget that as residents of Buckden you all receive
discounted rates on Hall hire. Please call or email me if
you would like to find out more information
BUCKDEN WI
Hats on for our Centenary Year: our
May speaker brought with her a most
glorious array of her amazing hats and
even encouraged us to try them on!!
Helen Tilly is a wonderfully talented
milliner and designer whose hobby
gradually took over her house and studio in St. Ives and
spread to a showroom, Green Rose in Fenstanton, developing
into a full-time, highly trained career. Her stunning designs
draw requests by word of mouth such that she has never
needed to advertise and last year completed more than 200
creations for customers all over the world.
Over the course of the evening we learned how all hats are
shaped on specially made hat-blocks of Obeche wood (her
collection numbers a couple of hundred), then steamed,
dried, stiffened, hand stitched and decorated with, for in-
stance, her hand-made silk flowers, feathers or fabric swirls.
Fabrics range from felt through to expensive parasizal, whilst
the most popular is the versatile sinamay woven from the
abacca tree in the Philipines, all sourced from Luton, the
home of hat-making. Helen shared some of the tricks of her
trade, such as adapting a wall-paper stripper for the steaming
process and using a hostess trolley for drying hats. Helen’s
delight in the work she loves is infectious and expresses itself
in the variety of her gorgeous creations so that we enjoyed a
wonderfully entertaining and informative evening with her.
Our next meeting is open to all and we do encourage visitors
to join us for a warm welcome on 4th June when we shall be
richly entertained by the well-known flower arranger and auc-
tioneer Nick Grounds.
We warmly welcome visitors and new members to our
meetings.
For more information please contact:
Ruth Nicholas – 07957 334142
Judith Armitage – 01480 811717
Jo Harvey, 01480 811101,
admin@buckdenvillagehall.co.uk
Office hours 9am to 2pm.
Burberry Road, Buckden,
Cambridgeshire, PE19 5UY
Tel: 01480 811101
www.buckdenvillagehall.co.uk
email:admin@buckdenvillagehall.co.uk
Buckden Festival Photographic Competition
Entry Form
Name:
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Address:
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Phone number: ……………………
e-mail address ………………………………
Age (if 16 or under) on 1 st July 2019: ………………
Theme: Architecture of Buckden
Number of entries (max 3): …………..
Theme: People of Buckden
Number of entries (max 3): ………….
Theme: Nature of Buckden
Number of entries: (max 3): ………….
All photographs must have been taken by the entrant. Entrants
must live or work in Buckden, Diddington or Stirtloe. The maxi-
mum size will be A3 including any mount. The judges will con-
sider both creative and technical merit in making their choice.
Points will be awarded for first, second and third in each
theme within each age category: the overall winner of each
age category will be awarded the trophy for that age, and
there will also be modest cash prizes for winners of each
theme. The judge’s decision is final.
The closing date for entries is midnight on 1st July. To submit
entries you may:
• Take your entries to the foyer at the Buckden Village Hall
between 6pm – 7.30 pm on Monday 1st July
• Take your entries to the Clerk’s Office in the Village Hall or
post through the door of 48 Vineyard Way on or before 1st
July
Please make sure that you include an entry form or write out
the details clearly as per the form if submitting several entries.