May 2023

3 Buckden Roundabout May 2023 Buckden Roundabout Team Editors - Articles & Events Ian Carter and Alec MacAndrew Email: editor@buckdenroundabout.info 33 Beaufort Drive, Buckden, PE19 5YU 07515 737636 Webmaster Alec MacAndrew Email: webmaster@buckdenroundabout.info Proofreading and editorial assistance Wendy Trattner Advertisements and Payments Fiona Shirley Email: adverts@buckdenroundabout.info Distribution Co - ordinators Wendy Thelwall, Lesley MacAndrew, Patricia Ford Contact this email for info: Email: distribution@buckdenroundabout.info Front Cover This month ’ s cover is a collage of photos taken at last year ’ s FOBT plant sale and was provided by Martin Shirley. Thank you, Martin. This year ’ s sale is on 20th May from 11am. We are looking for more photos and paintings of any kind that we could use as a front cover. We especially need photos and paintings of autumn scenes, and of events in the village. We should be grateful for photos (or even paintings!) of the coro- nation celebrations in the village. Please note that photos should ideally be in portrait format and should be a minimum of 2400 x 1700 pixels. More is better! All advertisements and non - advertising material are printed in good faith. Neither the Buckden Roundabout nor the Buckden Parish Council can accept any responsibility for the content of the advertisements, the services provided by the advertisers or any statements made in the advertisements or non - advertising material. No part of this publication may be reproduced or stored with- out the express permission of the Editor of the Buckden Roundabout. THE DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ALL MATERIAL FOR THE JUNE EDITION IS NO LATER THAN 4.30 pm ON WEDNESDAY 10TH MAY HOWEVER, SPACE IS ALLOCATED ON A FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED, BASIS. IT IS REGRETTED THAT ANY CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE INCLUDED. May Production Dates Production dates for the June Edition of the Roundabout are as follows: Copy deadline: Wednesday 10 May Proof Reading Friday 12 May Copy to Printers Tuesday 16 May Distribution Thursday 25 May Contents Buckden Parish Council 4 From your District Councillor 5 Church News 6 - 8 For your Diary 9 - 11 Village News 12, 14, 16, 17 Buckden Bowls Club 13 School and Pre - School 15 Sport 18 Advertisements & Classifieds 19 - 24 May 2023 As I write, it is a lovely Spring day and there is a mistle thrush singing his head off in the garden. The nightingales are back near the Anglia Water road, singing their unique and beautiful song. I think the coun- tryside around Buckden has looked particularly fine this year, with the great clouds of white blossom on the blackthorn promising an excellent crop of sloes come the autumn. There have been a couple of updates to major development planning applications recently. The Silver street site is on hold, as we under- stand that there is currently no developer prepared to take the appli- cation forward. The application for the site north of Mill Road is showing on the HDC website as having been withdrawn. The regular five - yearly update to the HDC Local Plan is currently underway. There is more local news in the Parish Council update on page 4. The coronation of King Charles will take place in May and there are various plans to mark the occasion in Buckden. Go to page 12 for more details. We are very lucky to have the historical Towers and grounds in our village. The Friends of Buckden Towers is a charity that helps the owners with the upkeep and repair of the Grade 1 listed buildings. You can read the Chairman ’ s annual report on page 5, and remember to visit the FOBT plant sale, which is a fund raising event for the char- ity in the Towers grounds on 20th May from 11am. With summer on the horizon, have you considered taking up bowls? Do you wonder how the Buckden Bowls Club came about? Well there is an article on page 13 about the club, its history and how it current- ly operates. You can go along and try bowling on Saturday 13th May at 10:30. Congratulations to Buckden Preschool for their successful Ofsted report. The pre - school report is on page 15. We are still looking for people to join our team of magazine distribu- tors as reserves . Distributing the magazine only takes half an hour or so once a month. We need to have people standing by as reserves to pick up routes when people are forced to step down for any reason. Distributors also get together for social events a couple of times eve- ry year. Please remember to visit the Roundabout website. As well as every edition from 2013 onwards available to see, there are often articles there that we could not fit into the print edition, as well as infor- mation that arrives during the month. The online edition of the mag- azine is in full colour: www.buckdenroundabout.info This month ’ s editor - Alec MacAndrew Editor ’ s Page