October - Deddington News

Deddington News 

October 2009 – 1 

THIS MONTH’S EDITOR 

Jill Cheeseman 

Next copy date: 

17 OCTOBER 2009 

Copy please to 

Jill Cheeseman 

Next advertising copy date: 

10 OCTOBER 

Managing Editors: 

Jill Cheeseman 338609 

Mary Robinson 338272 

editor@deddingtonnews.co.uk 

Parish Affairs Corresp: 

Charles Barker 337747 

Clubs’ Editor: 

Alison Day 337204 

clubs@deddingtonnews.co.uk 

Diary Editor: 

Jean Flux 338153 

diary@deddingtonnews.co.uk 

Features’ Editor: 

Molly Neild 338521 

features@deddingtonnews.co.uk 

Church & Chapel Editor: 

Frank Steiner 338264 

Letters’ Editor: 

Kristin Thompson 337052 

letters@deddingtonnews.co.uk 

Monthly Ads & Inserts: 

Debbie Grimsley 336110 

christopher.grimsley@btinternet.com 

Annual Ads: 

John Sampson 338739 

annuals@deddingtonnews.co.uk 

Treasurer: 

Buffy Heywood 338212 

Printing: 

Ruth Johnson 338355 

Pat Swash 

Collating & Distribution: 

Pat Brittain 338685 

assisted by Alison Brice, 

Yvonne Twomey and teams 

338950 

2009 Cover: 

Sue Cave 

Congratulations to Walter Meagher for his work 

on Portrait of a River which has helped to establish 

the River Swere Valley as a Conservation District 

- a significant achievement 

October 

Sat 3 British Legion: Disco with ‘Barney’, 8.00pm 

Mon 5 Monday Morning Club coffee morning, Holly Tree, 

10.30am - noon 

Tue 6 Hempton Traffic Action Group, Hempton Church Hall, 7.30pm 

Wed 7 Deddington Ladies, Holly Tree, 8.00 – 10.00pm 

Thu 8 Monday Morning Club film evening, The Duchess, Holly 

Tree, 6.30pm 

Tue 13 WI: Harvest Supper and auction for Poppy Appeal, Holly 

Tree, 7.30pm 

Tue 13 DOL Open Meeting, The Unicorn, 6.45pm 

Wed 14 History Society, Andy Norton, The Archaeology of Oxford 

Castle, Windmill Centre, 7.30pm 

Thu 15 PFSU and Nursery AGM: Deddington Village Nursery, 

7.30 pm, p9 

Fri 16 DOGS, full day’s golf at Kenilworth Golf Club, p15 

Sun 18 British Legion: Pool competition with refreshments, 3.00pm 

Wed 21 Parish Council Meeting, Town Hall, 7.30pm 

Sat 24 Deddington Farmers’ Market, 9.00am-12.30pm 

Sat 24 Photographic Society: Exhibition in the Parish Church, 

9.00am – 1.00pm, p15 

Sat 24 Bowls Club Race Night, British Legion, 8.30pm, p13 

Thu 29 Book Club, for venue phone 338094, p15 

November 

Sun 

1 Deddington Players: auditions for pantomime, Windmill 

Centre, 3.00pm 

Wed 4 Deddington Ladies: Holly Tree, 8.00pm 

Wed 4 Photographic Society: The Development of Photo 

Manipulation, James Phelps & Chris Bobo, Deddington 

Arms, 7.30pm 

Fri 

Sat 

Sat 

Sun 

6 Deddington School Fireworks Night, p9 

7 Warriner Choral Society Concert, Parish Church, 7.30pm 

7 British Legion: Disco with ‘Barney’, 8.00pm 

8 Remembrance Day Parade: Bullring, 10.30am, 

Act of Remembrance: War Memorial, 11.00am 

followed by Service of Remembrance, Parish Church 

Sun 8 African Children’s Choir, Parish Church, 7.30pm 

Wed 11 Service in Parish Church, 10.45am 

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2 – October 2009 Deddington News 

DEDDINGTON PARISH COUNCIL 

Meeting Town Hall 16 September 2009 

Present: Cllrs Flux (Chair), Allison, Anderson, Collins, 

Day, Ince, Rudge, Todd, Ward, Watts, Wood, OC Cllr 

Jelf, CD Cllr O’Sullivan, the Clerk, one member of the 

public and the DN correspondent. Apologies: Finnigan, 

Privett, Squires. 

Congratulations and appreciation were passed to the 

organisers of the Parish Show. 

OCCllr Jelf advised that someone from the Environment 

Agency would contact the PC about the wildflower 

meadow. 

Town Hall: The current four-year lease was signed in 

November 2006 but there are ongoing problems of 

running costs and maintenance which exceed income 

by £1,100. PC has decided to give 12 months’ notice 

to Deddington Charity Estates but hope that PC and 

DCE can work together for a long-term solution for the 

upkeep of the Town Hall. 

Finance & General Purposes 

£1,000 was received from Cricket Club as first repayment 

against £4,000 loan. £1,392.31 remains 

outstanding from last year. 

Student grants: There has been a significant increase 

in applications received for £100 concessionary grants 

for parish students starting at university. Level of 

funding to be reviewed next year in view of increase 

in numbers and grants to be given as book tokens. 

Highways 

High Street pedestrian crossing: Petition for call button 

south side of Hempton Road available at Unicorn 

and Library. 

Hopcraft Lane parking: OCC has recommended an 

extension of keep clear markings outside Innisfree/ 

East View and PC agrees. 

Hempton Traffic Action Group: Members of HWG to 

attend meeting in October. 

Market Place pinchpoint: Repainting of give-way and 

keep clear markings to be requested and possibly 

another priority sign. 

Road closures: Annual request to be made in December 

for 2010 road closures for Remembrance Day 

parade, the Festival, fair and the rowing at the Farmers’ 

Market. The Market Group received approval for a road 

closure for the next Farmers’ Market on 26 September. 

Clifton footpath: Several complaints have been 

received about the poor state of the footpath to 

Deddington. Although the edges have now been cut it 

is in bad repair. Request to OCC for weed-killing and 

path to be made up to a proper standard. 

St John’s Way parking: Incidents of people parking on 

footpaths should be reported immediately to Police for 

action to be taken. 

Recreation 

Castle Grounds: Dog bin to be placed at far end. 

Enquiries to be made regarding bag roll dispensers 

positioned at dog bins. PC has decided against asking 

for no parking by-law to be revoked. 

Windmill: Swing at junior play area has been broken 

and will be replaced. 

Environmental & Special Purposes 

Christmas tree: Offer by Cllr Day proved not to be 

suitable so further enquiries to be made and additional 

sponsorship sought. Cllr Day offered £50 towards the 

tree. 

Noticeboards: These are now being repaired with help 

from Brian Clark. PC expressed thanks. 

Hempton Road cemetery: Rates for burials to be 

updated. Decision made that burials of people with a 

close relationship with the parish only to be accepted. 

Planning 

PC no objection: (1) 6 The Beeches, single storey 

rear extension; (2) 10 High St, rear dormer window; 

(3) Clifton House and Home Farm Cottage, Clifton, 

vehicular access; (4) Holcombe Hotel, single storey 

extension to Charters Cottage, relocation of bar and 

gents’ toilet in hotel; (5) 3 Philcote St, demolition of 

lean-to, erection of rear single storey extension; (6) 

Coombe Cottage, Hempton, two storey rear extension; 

(7) Sycamores, Hempton Rd, tree works; (8) Winmour, 

3 Philcote St, two storey extension, flat roof to pitched 

roof, raise existing extension roof, remove bedroom 

ceiling, repair roof truss, new staircase to attic; (9) 22 

St John’s Way, Hempton, rear garden room; (10) The 

Stile House, New St, reduce and reshape lime tree; 

(11) Stone House, Market Place, fell conifer; (12) 

The Retreat, Chapel Sq, tree works; (13) Featherton 

House, Chapel Sq, various tree works; (14) 4 Hopcraft 

Lane, fell fir tree; CDC to liaise over pointing. 

PC objections: (15) The Retreat, Hudson Court, conversion 

of retail unit to studio apartment; (16) Winmour, 

3 Philcote St, create downstairs study, en suite for 

bedroom, two new bedrooms, attic room. 

Approvals: (17) Corner House, High St, tree felling, 

replace door and door-frame; (18) Gaslight, Earl’s 

Lane, tree felling; (19) Tays Gate, Earl’s Lane, tree 

felling; (20) 14 Wimborn Close, two storey extension; 

(21) The Stables, St James’ Farm, Clifton, self-catering 

holiday accommodation, conditions applied; (22) 2 

Paper Mill Cottage, Oxford Rd, Adderbury, single 

storey extension; (23) Stonefield, Hempton Rd, front 

porch extension and conversion of attic space, garden 

room, conditions applied; (24) Ithaca, Hopcraft Lane, 

retrospective render. 

Other matters: PC approval with conditions given to 

Cricket Club storage facility behind pavilion. 

Finances 

Imprest £1,318.46 @ 0.1%, current £21,350.05 @ 

0.1%, WBromwich £133,963.21 @ 1.5%, Alliance & 

Leicester £200,000 @ 3.2%, Anglo Irish £200,000 @ 

3.25%. 

Next meeting 7.30 pm on Wed 21 October at 

Town Hall 



DEDDINGTON 150 YEARS AGO 

The following are extracts from the diaries of the Rev. 

Cotton Risley for the month of October 1859: 

28th September - I heard from Brighton in answer 

to mine about lodgings – stating that we could take 

them for a month certain from the 5th of next month, 

terms 5gns. per week besides extras, coals and washing 

linen. 

4th October - A woman named Edginton of Clifton 

came up for one of my out patient tickets to the Infirmary 

at Oxford for which I had proposed her – she 

was very grateful. 

5th October - Hills the Photographist came from 

Oxford and took the inside of the Church (and also an 

outside view) with the Clergy and Choir. 

7th October - I, Susan and Holford attended at 

the National School Room on the occasion of presenting 

a Piece of Plate and other presents to Mr. & 

Mrs. Burgess as a parting testimonial of regard and 

esteem from 289 inhabitants of this place, as well as 

in lasting appreciation of his teaching and preaching 

amongst us as Curate for the last two years and a half. 

Church service afterwards – the largest congregation 

on a week day evening since the Daily Services were 

commenced. 

9th October - Sunday. Mr. Brogden resumed his 

duties as Vicar – all the Dissenters are at Church and 

others who for various reasons best known to themselves 

had absented themselves from Church during 

the ministrations of Messrs. Burgess, Cave and Egerton. 

The boys from Parker’s Chapel were present in the 

gallery, Reform, Wesleyans and Independents were 

at Church – there were two services instead of three. 

10th October - I started by the mid-day train to 

join Susan and Holford at Brighton. We remained at 

Brighton till Saturday, 19th November (Susan’s, my 

dearest, birthday). 

(No further entries until they return, 19th November.) 

Buffy Heywood 338212 


Autumn down on the Allotment 

Whilst I enjoy the autumn there is always an element 

of sadness as plants start slowing down for the cold 

months ahead. I can definitely feel the chill in the air at 

night so this is really the last month for growing tender 

vegetables outside. It’s time to protect your lettuces, 

courgettes, peas and beans at night to encourage a 

few more weeks growing. 

This month you can plant spring cabbages, onion 

sets and winter lettuces. With your spring cabbages 

if they have long stalks you can earth them up giving 

more support around their stalks and thereby help to 

prevent them from getting buffeted against the winter 

winds. You can also prepare your ground and plant 

broad beans; by sowing in autumn you can have 

beans as early as May. You can continue to plant 

broad beans throughout the winter but make sure 

the ground isn’t frozen; if it is and you’re determined 

to get your beans in you may want to warm up your 

soil by covering it with polythene. Watch out for frost 

as this can easily claim your hard work. I’d advise 

having cloches or fleeces on standby just in case the 

temperature drops. 

If you have globe artichokes protect the crowns 

with straw. The tender plant does not react well to cold 

weather and will be damaged by heavy frost or snow. 

Tidy up your strawberry beds, remove any of the 

yellow leaves and any remaining runners. 

Take hardwood cuttings from current bushes if you 

want to propagate new plants. You can prune these 

plants now but you may want to wait until the leaves 

have fallen off and prune in December. 

Pot up chives, parsley and dill for harvesting in 

the winter. 

October is the time to start tidying up the allotment 

and start digging, something my little patch is in dire 

need of! 

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Middle Barton 

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CHURCH AND CHAPEL 

Parish Church SS Peter and Paul 

October 

Thur 1 2.00pm Squeals and Wheels 

Sun 4 10.30am First Sunday A Family Service 

led by the Boys Brigade 

6.30pm Harvest Festival Evensong 

followed by Buffet Supper (all 

welcome) 

Wed 7 10.00am Eucharist 

Sun 11 10.30 am Sung Eucharist 


Thur 15 2.00pm Squeals and Wheels 

Sun 18 10.00pm Eucharist 

3.30 for 4.00pm Free Spirit 

Informal worship led by the 

Band Telling Tales 

Tea, coffee and cakes served 


Sun 25 8.00am Holy Communion (BCP) 

Bible Sunday 

10.30am Morning Worship 

Wed 28 10.00am Eucharist with healing prayer 

St John Hempton 

Sundays 4 and 18 October 9.00am Eucharist 

Sunday 25 Oct 6.00pm Evensong 

From the Parish Registers 

Baptisms: 

13 Sept James Chichester Benson Fuller 

20 Sept Bailey Hamblet-Bowes 

For baptisms, weddings, funerals or home visits in case of illness, please contact the Vicar, the Rev. Dr Hugh 

White, 28 Duns Tew (349869), or one of the church wardens, Glynne Bianchi (337743) or George Fenemore 

(337180). 

Wesleyan Reform Church, Chapel Square Pastor Isabel Walton 337157 

Sunday mornings at 10.30am: Pastor Isabel Walton except 25 October Faith Sharpe 

Congregational Chapel, New Street Joyce Minnear 338529 

Sunday morning services are held at the Wesleyan Reform Church together with their congregation. 

Sunday afternoon services at the Chapel at 3.00pm organised by Pastor Derek Walker of the Oxford Bible 

Church 

PC Parish of Hethe with Adderbury Fr John Burns 277396 

Mass at Holy Trinity, Hethe: every weekday except Wed at 9.30 am, Sun at 10 am. 

St George’s Church Adderbury: Mass Wed 7 pm and Sun 8.30 am. 

Confessions at Hethe Sat 5.30–6.00 pm and at Adderbury before Mass. 

The Eve of Sunday Mass at St John’s Church, Banbury, is said at 4.00pm on Saturdays to allow worshippers 

from the villages to attend by public transport. 

E-MAIL FROM REVD DR HUGH WHITE 

On 4 October at 10.30am at the Parish Church our 

Boys’ Brigade company will be leading the new First 

Sunday occasion - family-friendly worship with refreshments 

to follow. Later at 6.30pm we have our Harvest 

Festival Evensong. This will be followed by a buffet 

supper. All are very welcome to either or both services 

and to the supper. 

31 October will be a Gift Day in support of the 

Church fabric. I shall be at the Church porch between 

9.30am and 5.00pm, looking forward to receiving 

contributions towards the upkeep costs of our church 

building. 

On 1 November at 3.00pm we are holding the annual 

Commemoration of the Departed. This is a quiet, 

reflective service with an opportunity to light candles 

in memory of loved ones. At 6.30pm there will be a 

Requiem Mass for the Departed, sung to the setting 

by Fauré. 

On 8 November the Service of Remembrance will 

be held in the morning and in the evening (7.30pm) the 

African Children’s Choir will perform in the Church. A 

single ticket will cost £6 (£5 concessions and children) 

and a family ticket (2 adults, 2 children) £15. The Choir 

will be staying in Deddington on the Sunday night and 

the following Monday and Tuesday nights. If anyone 

would like to help with the Choir’s accommodation, 

please contact me. 

Finally, I would ask dog owners to keep their dogs 

under control in the Churchyard and to clean up after 

them as necessary. Thank you. 

Postbag continues on p6 



Farmers’ Market 

October Farmers’ Market is on 24 October, just a 

week prior to the annual squash festival, which 

some folks call Hallowe’en. 

As the nights get longer and the temperatures fall, 

one of the great comfort foods is a good soup. Homemade 

soup is really very easy to make, should taste 

very good, and you can use all sorts of tired-looking 

ingredients, saving money by using things you might 

have thrown away. If you make too much, invite the 

neighbours in or put some in the freezer. Avoid cabbage 

in the soup unless you live on your own! 

I understand that Cherwell are about to introduce 

a food waste bin collection. If you have a dog and 

chickens, then food waste is probably unknown to 

you. If you only live with humans, then there will be the 

occasional leftover. If you have a compost bin, most 

will go in that, leaving the vermin-attractive stuff to be 

disposed of. If you make soup, there will be even less 

to throw away in the new Cherwell recycling initiative. 

So, as you look round the Market, don’t worry about 

what to do with the leftovers if you buy too much. Just 

think: soup, compost or recycle. And if you do end up 

carving a pumpkin lantern, you know what to do with 

the off-cuts. 

Paul Drawmer 338450 

paul@drawmer.net 


News from Hempton 

12 September was a perfect day for the Ride and 

Stride, which saw many people out riding and walking 

to raise money for their church. St John’s had a 

record 134 visitors, and many people commented on 

our hospitality. Our thanks go to Pam Dodd and other 

helpers, both on the day and before. We had several 

teams riding for us, so well done to them. Sponsorship 

money will be known later. 

Please remember the meeting in the church hall on 

6 October at 7.30pm to discuss speeding and other 

issues. Everyone will be welcome. For more information 

contact Geraldine Lay on 337660 between 6.00 

and 7.00pm. 

The table tennis season is here and our team will 

be playing in Division 3 of the Banbury League after 

being relegated. It is time once more to think of the 

Christmas Bazaar which will be on Saturday 5 December 

from 11.00am with all the usual stalls plus hot 

lunches. Leah Calcutt is arranging a skittles match on 

Thursday 22 October at 7.30pm at Sandford-St-Martin 

Cricket Club; tickets at £10 per head include a fish 

and chip supper. A licensed bar will also be in operation. 

Ring Leah on 337276 for more information. Tony 

Rolfe of St John’s Way thanks everyone who donated 

to Cancer Research UK in memory of Linda. Trinders 

Funeral Services sent a cheque for £504 during August 

for this charity. 

Les Chappell 338054 

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• Glazed & Terracotta Pots 

• Selection of Bird Feeders, Statues & Food 

• Compost & Aggregate (many multi-buy offers) 

• Excellent Range of Gifts, Cards & Gift Vouchers 

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E-MAIL FROM ROB FORSYTH, NEW STREET, 

DEDDINGTON 

I hope that many of your readers have now found 

their way to the large (and still growing) section in 

Deddington OnLine about the 

part that our Parish played in 

both World Wars. My article in the 

last edition of the DN paid tribute 

to Michael Allbrook’s research 

but I would like to say a further 

big thank you to all those others 

who have supplied stories, photographs 

and, most importantly, 

the names to match them, that 

are now on line. Lorraine Gillam, 

Arthur Lewis, Topper Davies, Clive 

Sanders, Joe Cowley, Derrick 

Robbins (from the USA), Primrose Buckle (formerly 

Roberts and who lived in Deddington Manor during 

WWII), Buffy Heywood, Ruth Johnson, Joyce Minnear 

and Josie Stevens have all been most generous with 

their time, knowledge and photographs. 

There has been one nice footnote to all this activity. 

Two cousins, who were previously completely unaware 

of each other, are now in regular touch and exchanging 

family information as a consequence of independently 

contacting me about the World War articles. 

E-MAIL FROM AARON BLISS, LINCOLNSHIRE 

If there’s one thing we have learnt from Stephen King, 

other than that unspeakable terror stalks isolated 

American coastal towns, it’s that small town folk look 

out for each other. In this spirit I would like to convey my 

deepest gratitude to Daeda’s people, who have offered 

nothing short of robust support and fondest wishes 

to me on my journey for intellectual redemption. I am 

sure this is testament to the wonderful legacy left by 

mother, who still haunts us with her chirpy sing-songs 

and enduring smile. I shall raise a glass of some nonalcoholic 

tipple to all of you in fair Lincolnshire! 

E-MAIL FROM HUGH MARSHALL, THE DAEDINGS, 

DEDDINGTON 

Deddington will have an opportunity to start Christmas 

shopping at the Fairtrade Preview and Bargain Day on 

October15th. Buying Fairtrade Christmas cards and 

gifts brings pleasure to the recipient and life-saving 

income to craftspeople and producers in developing 

nations. 

Deddington Fair Traders offer a preview of a wide 

range of crafts featured in the Traidcraft catalogue, as 

well as the full range of 60 newly designed Christmas 

cards and Advent calendars. All may be bought or 

ordered on the day, with 10% discount. The popular 

Bargain Tables will feature discontinued Christmas 

cards and craft products at greatly reduced prices. 

The Preview Day is Thursday 15 October in 

Deddington Church from 10.30am until 7.00pm. Free 

FROM THE EDITOR’S POSTBAG 

Please address all letters to: 

KRISTIN THOMPSON 

5 THE LEYES, DEDDINGTON 

letters@deddingtonnews.co.uk 

and include your name and address 

even if they are not for publication 

admission and refreshments. For further details contact 

Hugh Marshall on 337761. 

E-MAIL FROM WALTER MEAGHER, HOPCRAFT 

LANE, DEDDINGTON 

Even children walk, except when 

they have to be driven, to school, 

to the cinema, to McDonald’s, in 

our post-ambulatory age. Now it 

is suggested a car park might be 

desirable on the western edge of 

Castle Grounds. Maybe so, but 

consider this. Deddington Parish 

is approximately 1,670 ha (4,200 

acres). There are about 18 sq km 

of woodland in 14 sites identified on 

OS 191 map, and about 20 sq km 

of unidentified woodland. The total area of all mature 

wood in the parish is 38.5 sq km. Some woodland 

sites, solidly green on the OS 191, are not continuously 

wooded. The net total area of wood area occupied by 

woodland is 53.7 sq km. Deddington village, and the 

hamlets of Clifton and Hempton, with the associated 

gardens and farm homesteads, council depot and 

electricity substation, occupies 75.2 sq km of space. 

Measuring parish roads in the same way, they occupy 

16.2 sq km of space. The total area set aside in these 

ways, houses plus roads, is about 91.4 sq km. Tarmacadam 

has nearly double the space given to woodland. 

A car park by the Castle Grounds will add very little to 

this preponderance, unless a car park were to occupy 

the disused field to the west. 

E-MAIL FROM CHRISTOPHER HALL, PHILCOTE 

STREET, DEDDINGTON 

National Ethical Investment Week is 8-14 November. 

Everyone can choose green and ethical options for 

their finances and savings. Such investing can involve 

negative criteria - avoiding making money out of 

harmful activities. It can be chosen to have a positive 

impact on issues such as climate change, global 

poverty and human rights. Those with shares or paying 

into pensions can ask searching questions about how 

the companies, which they in part own, are behaving. 

In addition to recycling, buying local or fair-trade goods, 

it makes ethical, as well as financial, sense to consider 

how our money is invested. Shares in growing teak 

sustainably in Latin America have doubled in value 

in twenty years. Their growth has continued steadily 

throughout the economic downturn, such that one 

investment manager recently advised selling them to 

avoid unbalancing a portfolio. To find out more about 

the Week, visit www.neiw.org. 

A further e-mail is under the Church and Chapel on 

page 4 from Revd Dr Hugh White. 



Deddington Cricket Club…Bucking the Trend 

A Pot Noodle costs pence, takes two minutes to prepare 

and probably less time to eat. A well-prepared 

roast dinner with all the trimmings will cost a few bob, 

take a morning to prepare and if accompanied by a 

fine wine can take hours to devour. 

Cricket is most definitely in the roast dinner department 

of sports - ages to prepare and hours to savour. 

Many villages have lost their cricket clubs as 

parishioners strive to adapt from iron forge to wi-fi, 

from Sabbath to Sainsbury’s and competing against 

an ever-increasing 

range of Pot 

Noodle leisure activities 

that can be 

‘fitted in between 

things’. 

Had it not been 

for a valiant few 

cricketers over 20 

years ago who 

resurrected the 

club, there is every 

chance there 

would be three 

football pitches 

on the Windmill 

and old cricketing 

windbags like me 

would have surreptitiously to leave the village and 

feast at someone else’s table. 

The choice was to bite the proverbial bullet or 

choke on it. Fortunately, enough of us had sufficient 

teeth left to choose the former and so 2009 has been 

a massive year of investment in the Club. New nets, 

new mowers, new storage facility, new teams and, 

best of all, many new faces. 

We are aiming for 100 members next year, to 

include the 30 Under 9s who regularly turned up on 

a Friday evening and the Under 11 squad of 15 who 


are moving to Under 13s next year. Also to include 

the 20+ ladies who brought so many smiles and not 

a little glamour to the Windmill on Sunday mornings. 

And not forgetting our two men’s sides with more than 

40 players helping us win as many as we lost in an 

entertaining season. 

It is not the sport that makes the Club, it’s the people 

and we are encouraged by the numbers who are 

coming forward to chip in and ensure that we keep the 

momentum into 2010. 

Increased membership will require more investment 

and what 

better way to start 

the close season 

than to announce 

that our Chairman, 

Derek, has 

thrown himself out 

of an aeroplane 

from 13,000ft, survived, 

and raised a 

considerable sum 

for Dogs for the 

Disabled and the 

Cricket Club. Well 

done Derek! 

We are planning 

a Mid Summer 

Ball on 20 

June next year and a Cricket Fête with Barrel Rolling 

and assorted events on 22 August. 

The end of season do is on the 17 October at the 

Windmill and we would like to see everyone from the 

club there. Details on www.deddingtoncc.co.uk 

plus all the season’s achievements and upcoming 

activities. 

Many thanks to our sponsors, vice presidents and 

supporters for making 2009 a Slap Up Season! 

James Ransom 

james.ransom@hotmail.co.uk 

Warriner Choral Society 

proudly presents Haydn’s greatest work 

The creation 

Saturday 7th November 2009 

Church of St Peter & St Paul 

Deddington 

7.30 pm 



DOWN ON THE FARM 

Whoops, I guess I missed last month’s copy 

date! 

The Green Goddess returned to her winter 

quarters on 12 September, having cut the last of the 

Spring beans. It was a great relief to get the last of the 

crops into store so that we can concentrate on getting 

next year’s crops in the ground. It has been a difficult 

season. July was the wettest month for two years and 

the wettest July on record. The hay-making which, due 

to environmental restrictions on the traditional flower 

hay meadows, cannot take place until after 15 July, 

has to be left over until the oil seed rape and cereal 

crops had been cut and did not get started until the 

August Bank Holiday. Although it has a little colour it 

will be little more than ‘fill belly’ as the grass was well 

over its best by the time we were able to cut it. The 

oil seed rape was for once planted on time into some 

very good seed beds, but is now suffering from our 

up-side-down weather patterns (it was wet when we 

needed it dry and now it is dry when we need it wet) 

but at least the dry weather of late has kept the grey 

hoards at bay as the emerging seedlings struggle to 

come up. 

The bees have had a much better time of it this 

year although we have lost a number of the smaller 

colonies through wasp predation. Despite the wasps, 

DEDDINGTON PARISH SHOW 2009 

We had a great Parish Show on Saturday 5 September, 

well supported with a wonderful range of exhibits 

and plenty of visitors who helped to make enough 

funds for next year’s Show. 

The church made an excellent venue and, with 

most of the pews sold off and the stone floor installation 

completed, there was ample space. 

The Show committee 

would like to thank everyone 

who so generously 

helped on the day, who 

gave donations and to 

everyone who exhibited to 

make the Show possible 

and worthwhile. Particularly 

impressive was the 

Flower Section, considering 

the poor weather we 

have had lately. 

Next year’s Show is 

Saturday 4 September, 

and we would like even 

more exhibits, especially 

from our children. Their 

contributions on Saturday were a delight and we want 

more of them, please! 

TROPHIES: 

Welford Cup for Cookery Section: Joint 2nd Lesley 

Nelson & Sally Allbrook, Winner John Coley 

Marianne Elsley Cup for Flowers Section: 3rd 

the number of hives that I am now preparing for the 

winter is well up on last year. The environment strips 

have come on well and we have some very good 

bird-seed strips. The pollen and nectar headlands are 

holding out well into the autumn with a good show of 

Alsike and late flowering Red Clover being enjoyed by 

the bees before the ivy comes into flower. The moths 

and butterflies have had a better year than the last 

two but the number is still well down on before the ‘Big 

Wet’, and it was nice to see a good second hatch of 

the Blue butterflies in late August, making good use 

of the Birdsfoot Trefoil that was planted in the pollen 

and nectar strips back in the Spring. It was pleasing 

to see a number of the Brown Argus Butterfly (Aricia 

Agestis) which has been missing from the Home Farm 

list for a number of years. 

All our summer visitors have now returned to 

warmer climes. Both pairs of Hobbys had a successful 

season and managed to fledge four chicks between 

them and we had eight pairs of Swallows that set up 

home in the buildings with most producing two broods. 

But sadly the Cuckoo will be missing from my list this 

year, although I am told that there were some heard. 

Having lost most of my hearing I can only list the birds 

that I see - but there is always next year. 

George Fenemore 338203 

Wendy Burrows, 2nd Philip Smithson, Winner Stan 

Nelson 

Oliver Hawes Cup for Vegetables & Fruit: 3rd Sue 

Ayles & Wendy Burrows, 2nd Dennis Freeman, Winner 

Stan Nelson 

Arts & Crafts Cup: Joint 2nd Sue Burrows & Margaret 

Jones, Joint Winners Lilian Curnow & Wendy 

Burrows 

Children 6 & under: 

Winner Florence Tuthill 

7 to under 11: Winner 

Elen Squires 

11 to under 16: 

Joint winners Laura 

Wallington & Oliver 

Burrows 

Maureen Forsyth 

Cup for Child Champion: 

3rd Beatrix Burrows, 

2nd Charlie 

Tuthill, Joint winners 

Elen Squires & Florence 

Tuthill 

Deddington Gardeners’ 

Cup for Show Champion: 3rd Sue Ayles, 2nd 

Wendy Burrows, Winner Stan Nelson 

The full list of results is on the church porch noticeboard. 

Wendy Burrows 

338082 



THE SUMMER FUN HOLIDAY ACTIVITIES 

in the church in August lived up to their name. The 

weather was kind on the whole, so the children enjoyed 

clock golf, badminton, darts and French cricket 

in Castle House garden and a picnic on the last day 

in the Old Post House garden, by kind permission of 

Simon and Vivien Bouverie and Christine Blenntoft 

respectively. This year’s music/drama workshop 

production of an African version of the Tortoise and 

Hare fable was a delight. We owe huge thanks to our 

loyal, regular helpers and to several other mums and 

teenagers without whom all this fun would have been 

impossible. 

Jane Green 

green-jane@btconnect.com 

Deddington PFSU and Village Nursery 

A new school year has begun and we are delighted 

to welcome new children at both sites. Everyone 

has settled in quickly and is making the most of the 

activities on offer. Our topic for the next few weeks is 

‘All About Me’, and we will be learning about ourselves, 

our families and where we live. Our Annual General 

Meeting will be held at the Deddington Village Nursery 

on Thursday 15 October at 7.30pm. It is vital that all 

families with children at the settings aim to attend. We 

are a parent-managed setting (charity) and need the 

support of parents to make decisions and elect a new 

committee. Please join us if you possibly can. 

Lucy Squires 337484 

SUMMER’S OVER 


PTA 

The PTA AGM was well attended on the 22 September 

and a new Committee was formed. Some members 

of the 2008/09 committee have been re-elected, and 

we are pleased to welcome some new faces to the 

team this year. 

Our usual Firework Display will be held on the 

school field on Friday 6 November. Put a note in your 

diaries now as the fireworks get better each year! 

We have a very exciting year planned and look 

forward to welcoming you to all our upcoming events. 

Thank you for your continued support. 

Janet Watts PTA Chair 

337135 

FRIENDS OF DEDDINGTON FESTIVAL 

The FDF AGM is on Thursday 12 November at 

7.30pm in the Parish Church. The agenda will be sent 

out to all Friends a month in advance. Please come if 

you can. Apart from bringing you up to date with current 

membership, committee and financial matters, the 

Open Forum item offers a platform for your opinions, 

both on this year’s Festival and on future developments. 

It’s your Festival – your input is vital. Begin the 

evening with a glass of wine and take it from there. 

Kristin Thompson 

FDF Publicity 

337052 

From Donald William Welford’s Family History 

Donald’s great grandfather William, who we 

read was well on his way to prosperity, setting 

himself up as a coal and forage merchant 

in 1865, now diversified even further. He purchased 

small properties in Clifton and built his own house 

‘Roseville’ in 1875 where he was to spend the rest of 

his life. He also bought next-door ‘Ashley House’ with 

stables and a blacksmith’s forge, giving him his own 

horse-shoeing facility. 

William and his wife Anne Shirley (from Clifton) had 

four children, of whom John Henry, Donald’s grandfather 

was the eldest. 

While enlarging the coal side of his business William 

suddenly realised that he rather liked the idea of 

producing hay for marketing. To this end he acquired 

grassland meadows from which he was entitled to 

take one crop of hay a year, allowing him gradually to 

extend his forage client base beyond the barge men of 

the Cherwell Valley to nearby towns such as Banbury, 

Brackley, far into the Cotswolds, to Oxford and even to 

the larger markets of London and Birmingham where, 

in the mid 19th century, the economy was still entirely 

dependent on horses! 

Working with William in his expanding forage business 

were a number of highly skilled local men known 

as hay-tiers who would arrive with their hay presses 

wherever there was a rick to be turned into bales of 

hay for easy transport on horse wagons, or for long 

distance orders, in railway wagons. These men also 

had hay knives, gruesome weapons to be treated with 

the utmost care but in their hands useful in making 

neat trusses (bales), each truss weighing 56lbs. The 

farmer would then supply a horse to fetch the hay 

press which was made on two wheels so designed 

that a pair of shafts could be attached and the whole 

contraption pulled by a horse. 

William now began to travel extensively. He met 

farmers who traded with him and to convince them 

of the quality of his hay, he took with him a really 

good sample, pressed in just the way that the haytiers 

did their bales, but to a size that would fit into 

his Gladstone bag. (In Donald’s possession was the 

miniature hay press William used and showing it to 

many people over the years nobody ever recognised 

for what it was used.) 

[To be continued] 

Ruth Johnson 

338355 



Deddington Festival 2010 

At the moment we are busy with plans for next year 

and we will announce the 2010 Festival outline just 

as soon as we can. 

Dr Donald Lane 

After five years as a director of Deddington Festivals 

Limited, Donald has decided to leave the Festival 

committee to concentrate on the work involved in organising 

the Writing Competition, as well as his other 

interests which include composing and conducting. 

Grateful thanks to Donald who has worked extremely 

hard over the last five years, both as a committee 

member and as a performer. Thankfully we will shall 

be able to call on his expertise and advice in the future. 

Thank you, Donald. 

The Writing Competition has become one of the 

most successful events of the Festival, attracting over 

350 people from all over the UK in 2009 and the workload 

has increased accordingly. Thanks to all involved. 

Eileen Anderson 

01869 338325 

www.deddingtonfestival.org.uk 

The Deddington Housing Association 

The Deddington Housing Association is a small charity 

responsible for the management of the four Holly Tree 

Cottages in Earls Lane. The committee is made up of 

volunteers who meet formally four or five times a year 

to discuss and formulate plans for maintenance and 

improvement of the properties. In between times each 

member of the management committee looks after a 

specific aspect of management, so that, in addition to 

a Chairman, we have a Treasurer, a Secretary and 

members responsible for Property, Gardens, Health 

& Safety, and Tenant Liaison. 

As well as the management committee we have 

other members who join in our meetings a couple of 

times in the year, to add their ideas and contribute to 

fulfilling the aim of the Association, which is to provide 

accommodation for the needy, elderly or infirm of the 

Parish of Deddington. We would like to increase our 

general membership in order to have a pool of volunteers 

to call upon to carry out the tasks of managing the 

Holly Tree Cottages, when the need arises. If you are 

interested in helping with this worthwhile task please 

contact our Chairman, Phil Plant, on 01869 338965, 

or e-mail him at philip.plant@btinternet.com. 

CENTREPOINT, an 18th century property with a 

21st century use 

Celebrating 20 years in Deddington 

Business Centres come in many shapes and sizes, 

few more unusual, however, than Centrepoint. This 

is no purpose-built property. Originally two homes, 

it became a butcher’s shop, followed by an antique 

shop for a few more decades; eventually by 1989 the 

property was for sale. For the last twenty years, it has 

been operated as one of the region’s best-known busi- 

Good news: two Russian freighters last month 

completed the North-East Passage saving 

£55,000 worth of fuel for each ship if it had 

instead used the Suez Canal. Bad news: that means 

that the Arctic ice-cap has melted and is melting 

much faster than was forecast. The less ice there is, 

the less sunlight is reflected and the more warmth is 

absorbed by the sea - an accelerating vicious circle. 

Professor Tom Burke of Imperial and University Colleges 

in London warned three years ago, “If climate 

change is not tackled in ten years, don’t be under 40.” 

Today make that ‘seven years’, and ‘under 37’. What 

does that mean for young parents and their children 

in Deddington now? 

What does that mean for thousands of human 

beings already, quite apart from all the other species 

who share this planet? The Global Humanitarian 

Forum recently published The Anatomy of a Silent 

Crisis. It found that climate change already kills some 

300,000 human beings a year. 4,000,000,000 people 

are vulnerable to climate change, 500,000,000 are at 

extreme risk. In half a lifetime 150 to 200 million could 

be permanently displaced by rising sea levels. Who will 

be watching migration then? Twenty years ago Bishop 

John V Taylor foresaw a future scenario: ‘an affluent 

lifeboat on a sea of poverty from which the survivors 

beat back the multitude of unwanted people who are 

desperately struggling to clamber aboard.’ 

In December the fate of our children will be decided 

by national leaders at the Climate Change Conference 

in Copenhagen. 

Christopher Hall 338225 

ness centres, providing many locals with photocopying 

and secretarial services. 

The plan looked good on paper, but, as with all old 

buildings, this one held surprises. Internal manhole 

covers, ‘cavity’ stone walls three feet wide, and a water 

supply which follows a route from the road unknown 

even to the water company, all helped to make the 

early days eventful. 

For those who wonder what the community might 

gain from local businesses flourishing in the village, Ian 

Sloan believes those working in the offices probably 

spend around £7,000 per year in the Co-op, mainly 

on lunches and upwards of £5,000 on stamps, even 

in the age of e-mail! 

Can any readers remember the name of the antique 

shop which was located where Centrepoint is now? 

What other memories do you have of 1989? A final 

thought: 20 years ago Deddington had three petrol 

stations! 

Ian Sloan 

reception@centre-p.co.uk 




Banbury Rural North and South Neighbourhood 

Following a survey with the Neighbourhood Action out of the ordinary then let us know. In conjunction 

Group (NAG) , speeding, parking and anti-social with our colleagues, we have being conducting extra 

behaviour were identified as the most important patrols in the rural area. If you require any advice on 

issues and these will be tackled by the policing team crime reduction contact Jayne Taylor. 

and NAG over the next 12 months: 

As we are sure you are aware, there have been 

Deddington, Hempton and Clifton come into the recent distraction burglaries in Twyford and Adderbury. 

South of the area covered. 

The offenders have targeted elderly and vulnerable 

Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) Lana people in the area. Please do not open the door to 

Smith, Nikki Dale and Neighbourhood Specialist Officer 

(NSO) Becky McLeod have been working their – always ask for ID. If the caller is genuine, they will 

someone you do not recognise or are not expecting 

way around the villages and replacing the neighbourhood 

team posters, providing up to date information Do you live near to an elderly or vulnerable person? 

be happy to return by appointment. 

regarding our neighbourhood priorities as well as Please call us to become a Nominated Neighbour. This 

putting faces to the names of the officers responsible is a brilliant scheme that helps to protect those who are 

for your area. 

elderly and vulnerable from distraction burglaries and 

We shall be conducting speed enforcement operations 

in a variety of locations in the near future. PCSO come to the door, they can ask them to go to you for 

rogue traders. If the vulnerable person has someone 

Nikki Dale is running Community Speedwatch for the verification of identification. This is done without the 

rural area. If there is an area in your village that you person having actually to open the door – a yellow card 

feel is prone to speeding, please do not hesitate to with your house number is held up in the window. If 

get in touch to discuss the problem. We have access they are genuine, they will come across to you, and you 

to a Speed Indication Device that I will use with volunteers 

in order to both enforce and educate drivers, We are interested in reinventing the Neighbourhood 

will be more equipped to verify that they are legitimate. 

if a location is deemed suitable. We launched the Watch scheme in several villages in the South. Many 

scheme in Hanwell, and had a positive reaction from of these villages had a very active scheme a few years 

both residents and motorists alike. 

ago which has since gone stale. If you are interested in 

Unforunately, there have been some thefts across taking a proactive view in protecting yourself and the 

the area from outbuildings. These have included fuel area in which you live, please contact Debbie Tonks 

and other items that are easy to sell. Once again we in the Watch Office in Banbury. 

urge you to be vigilant and if you do notice anything 

Contact no 0845 8 505 505 

The River Swere 

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Oxfordshire Nature Conservation Forum reported that 

all the species and habitats described were doublechecked 

by three botanists. Finding no fault with any 

descriptions, the River Swere Valley has been named 

a Conservation District. The head of this district has 

been named too: Craig Blackwell. 

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FRIENDS OF DAEDA’S WOOD 

With the coming of autumn, the leaves will soon be 

falling and the trees going into their dormant period. 

Not having had the predicted hot dry summer the 

trees have flourished and for those who comment 

that they are too congested, it is the current policy of 

the Woodland Trust to allow nature to take its course 

rather than to interfere and thin the trees. 

The two main annual surveys, Kristin Thompson 

on butterflies and Nancy White and Sue Goddard on 

damsel-flies, have brought interesting and differing 

results. 

The butterflies have been patchy, like the weather 

– good in April (with brimstones, orange tips, commas 

etc), poor until July (speckled wood, red admiral, tortoiseshell 

etc) and then, during a few days in August, 

Kristin says the display was prolific, with numerous 

painted ladies. 

The damsels, following the pattern of the last two 

years, have been less plentiful. The wood along the 

river is more overgrown, making it harder to survey 

and meaning that less of the river is in sun. However, 

of the two varieties there, banded and beautiful, the 

banded showed a slight increase on last year. 

Elspeth Cox 

Chairman 

elspethcox@waitrose.com 

News from Clifton 

Footpath overgrown – Deddington cut off! 

The footpath has often been a bone of contention 

in Clifton but recently it plumbed new depths and 

Deddington was to all intents and purposes cut off! 

Many Clifton residents gave vent to their frustrations 

and wrote letters – so a campaign is now underway 

to allow the Deddington ‘Ladies who jog’ free 

and clear access all the way to our corner of heaven. 

Also, this correspondent has received reports that 

adders have been seen in and around Welford’s Piece. 

While we are delighted that this endangered species 

has found a haven in our midst, obviously care must 

be taken. They don’t like noise so make heavy steps 

and plenty of rustling noises when approaching. 

The Clifton job club has enjoyed another result as 

one of the members has settled in the leisure industry 

– so well done him, and there are thoughts of starting 

a local ‘allotment club’. Just ask Robert next time you 

fancy a pint! 

The walking club has hit a ‘quiet time’ following a 

night walk of 20 miles not going too well and finishing 

with a lift from the milk float at three in the morning! 

Oh well, we’ll see if they get going again. 

And finally we are wondering if the three holes in 

the road lately meant someone had taken the chance 

to fix the broken drain (see DN April 2008) at the same 

time as they seemed to be fixing the broken main. 

Martin Bryce 338031 

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1st Deddington Guides 

We celebrated the end of the summer term with our 

annual stream-walking event near Nether Worton. 

Congratulations to Danielle and Megan who made 

their promise in this unusual location. A terrific time was 

had by all – lots of squealing and adventures then just 

time for hot soup to warm up when, unusually for us 

on our fine weather Tuesdays, the heavens opened! 

Camp was a glorious affair – sunshine all the way 

and a beautiful setting on a farm near Swalcliffe with a 

lovely welcome from Mr and Mrs Taylor. It was like The 

Darling Buds of May and Famous Five rolled together. 

A dawn mike and up at 0420 hours! Beautiful skies 

and rolling mists from our vantage point on Climp Hill; 

we sat quietly spell bound before going back to camp 

for bacon butties. We learnt a lot about farming and 

three-day eventing - meeting the horses, touring the 

horse box, collecting eggs, picking wild plums, hiking to 

Epwell and causing a shortage of glasses at the pump 

with our lemonade order! We also got soaked playing 

in the stream and on our water slide, tried out many 

crafts, camp fire singsongs, toasted marshmallows, 

cooked all our own meals on wood fires etc. The four 

older guides had their own camp next to us and had a 

great time. One highlight was the harvest tea when we 

joined local farmers and farm hands in the orchard for 

an amazing farmhouse spread – homemade delights 

in a lovely setting! 

In 2010 it is 100 years since girls turned up at the 

first scout rally at Crystal Palace and asked Baden- 

Powell to create something for girls too. Many of us 

joined 2,000 other Guides, Rangers, Brownies, Rainbows 

and leaders at the Cotswold Wildlife Park for Girl 

Guiding’s centenary launch. We had a great day out 

in the park and the sunshine. 

Our numbers are increasing all the time. All girls 

over 10 are welcome. 

Maggie Rampley 01295 810069 

Marian Trinder 01869 340806 

Guiders 

1st Deddington Scout Group 

Cubs 

Here we are back after a nice summer break and we’ve 

hit the ground running, as the Cubs have already been 

to camp at Horley, run by the Sealed Knot who provided 

a weekend of Civil War activities. The boys were 

taught pike drill and the art of musketry; they learned 

some 17th century crafts and visited an encampment 

where they struck an authentic Civil War coin. The 

activities were only interrupted when the cannon was 

fired at the end of each session. 

At the campfire one of the Sealed Knot members 

told the story of how he joined the Parliamentarians 

and songs were sung before some very tired Cubs 

made their way back to bed. 

We have three new Cubs, George, Henry and Rhys 

and we hope they will enjoy themselves with the pack. 

CALLING ALL CLUBS 


During the rest of the term we shall be fire-lighting, 

making guys (look out for them at the market), attempting 

the astronomers’ badge and making puppets. 

Jo Churchyard CSL 

338071 jochurchyard@hotmail.com 

Scouts 

Two new boys have joined the troop this term, Hugh 

and Shaun, and some of our older boys have moved 

on to other interests (one has just moved) and we 

wish them all well. 

This term we will join other Scouts at the annual 

JOTA/JOTI (Jamboree on the Air/Internet) held at 

Horley. At this event they will be able to contact other 

Scouts worldwide and spend a night under canvas. 

During the rest of the term we shall organise a 

young persons’ quiz night to raise money for Shelterbox, 

visit a Scalextric track and join other District 

Scouts at a firework display. At the same time we will 

work towards numerous awards. 

Pete Churchyard SL 

338071 pete.churchyard@btinternet.com 

1st Deddington Brownies 

A group of the Brownies were lucky enough to attend 

the Oxfordshire launch of the Girl Guiding UK centenary 

year at Cotswold Wildlife Park. They enjoyed 

crafts, a tour through guiding uniforms of the last 100 

years, a picnic and a singsong, and a look round the 

park. The day was just the first of the year’s celebrations, 

with many other events and activities planned. 

The girls have already begun to work on their Adventure 

100 badge, a collection of challenges including 

possibly climbing the church tower! 


Deddington Players 

There is a committee meeting on Monday 5 October 

to discuss the pantomime and other matters. Please 

phone me if you need details. We plan to hold pantomime 

auditions on Sunday 1 November at 3.00pm 

at the Windmill. Everyone is welcome to turn up for 

these informal auditions and we are always pleased 

to hear from anyone who can help out backstage with 

costumes or with technical skills. Rehearsals will begin 

shortly afterwards and the performances will be on 21, 

22 and 23 January. 


Deddington Beeches Bowls Club 

Our annual Race Night will take place at the Royal 

British Legion on Saturday 24 October starting at 

8.30pm. We look forward to welcoming as many 

people as possible for an enjoyable night at the races. 

Yvonne Twomey 

Hon Secretary 337213 



Deddington Town Football Club 

1 st Team Results: 

01/09/09 Heyford Athletic (a) W 6-2 Hall (3), McCrickerd 

(2), Thornton L 

05/09/09 Drayton Village (h) L 3-4 Hall (2), Flemming J 

12/09/09 Fenny Compton (a) [CUP] W 4-3 (aet) Gibbs 

(2), England, Thornton L 

Reserve Results: 

05/09/09 Middleton Cheney (a) L 0-3 

12/09/09 Bloxham (h) L 2-4 own goal, Kaye (pen) 

A new dawn has broken. Both teams kicked off 

under new auspices; the First Team under the stewardship 

of Matthew Garstin. An extensive pre-season 

programme appeared to pay off as the team flew out 

of the blocks away to Heyford Athletic. Ex-Reserve star 

Simon Hall continued where he left off with a superb 

hat-trick, while new attacker Ryan McCrickerd demonstrated 

his prowess. Unfortunately a baffling defeat 

to Drayton followed. Deddington was in the lead and 

struck the woodwork a whopping five times before 

succumbing narrowly. Like any team with character, 

the players responded in style, beating Premier Division 

Fenny Compton after extra time with Matty Gibbs 

cracking a brace. 

The Reserves have had a baptism of fire. Starting 

life in a new division with new players and a new management 

team of Mikey Large and Barry Debenham, 

the team have yet to find their feet. They lost both 

games, their second after being 2-0 up. Bright spots 

include promising young winger Will Hicks and former 

first teamers Mikey and Jordan Kaye adding a touch 

of class. The promise of a more settled line-up and 

fitness in weeks to come should bode well for future 

results. Let the clichés overflow: it’s early days; no 

time to panic; notorious slow-starters; need time to 

gel; plenty more points to play for. 

The games will come thick and fast now, so shirk 

ye not: show your love Deddington! 

Aaron Bliss 

07909 642882 

Deddington Royal British Legion Branch 

and Club 

Membership, which runs from 1 October each year, is 

open to all over the age of 18 and there is no requirement 

to have served in the forces. The cost is £16 

per annum (£11 for pensioners) and covers both the 

branch and club and visiting other RBL branches and 

clubs worldwide. All are welcome to visit us without 

membership initially during opening hours. The Annual 

General Meetings for Branch and Club is on Saturday 

5 December at 10.00am at the club. 

The prime purpose of the Royal British Legion is 

to give assistance to ex-service personnel and their 

dependants in times of need. If you need our help, or 

if you know of anyone who does, please contact our 

Welfare Secretary, David Keats. There are many ways 

CALLING MORE CLUBS 

in which the Royal British Legion can assist but we 

can’t help if we don’t know. All discussion and help is 

in strict confidence. 

Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal 

We appeal to all to support the annual poppy appeal. 

At this time our brave men and women who are 

engaged in theatres of war all over the globe need 

to know that we support them and that, in the event 

of their suffering loss, we are here to help them and 

their dependants. The Deddington branch raises 

some £4,000 annually for the Poppy Fund. Let us be 

sure that this year is no exception. Collections at the 

Farmers’ Market and door-to-door will commence on 

Saturday 24 October and most shops in the village will 

have poppies and collection boxes available. Please 

give generously. 

Remembrance Commemoration and Poppy Appeal 

Remembrance Sunday 

The Royal British Legion invites all villagers to join 

them on Sunday 8 November in the parade and the 

Act of Remembrance at the War Memorial at 11.00am 

and in the Parish Church afterwards. The parade assembles 

at 10.30am in the Bullring and moves off to 

the War Memorial at 10.45am. After the church service 

all are welcome to the Royal British Legion club on 

the High Street. 

Wednesday 11 November 

We will be marking the anniversary of the Armistice 

by a brief service in the parish church at 10.45am when 

the Deddington Royal British Legion Standard will be 

paraded. We hope that as many villagers as possible 

who can spare just a short time will join us in church, 

especially at this time of such heavy loss of life and 

limb by our brave service people. 

Raymond R Morris 338143 

Club Secretary 

David Keats 337641 or 0774 525 0560 

DeddingtonRBL@aol.com 

Branch and Welfare Secretary 

WI 

Our speaker on 8 September was Gil Cane who has 

visited us before so we were pleased to be able to 

invite her again to talk to us. This time her talk was 

entitled ‘My Royal Weekend’ which, in fact, concerned 

a member of a European Royal Family. Gil’s stories 

and anecdotes kept members interested and amused, 

causing much laughter. She was warmly applauded 

and Vivienne Bryant gave a vote of thanks. 

On 13 October we have our Bring and Share Harvest 

Supper and auction for the RBL Poppy Appeal 

and at our meeting on 10 November Derek Parkes will 

speak on ‘Being a Santa’. 

Rene Mahony 

338438 




Photographic Society 

Last month Steve Brabner from the Amersham Camera 

Club gave a presentation on ‘digital club photography’. 

Adopting digital photography as far back as 

1995, whilst employed in the USA, Steve recounted his 

own personal experiences and difficulties in adapting 

to the new technique. While the transition from film 

to digital simplified and dramatically expanded the 

scope of photography, it also introduced problems in 

the accurate colour rendition of images. Reviewing 

these difficulties, Steve took his audience on a journey 

through the pros and cons of equipment selection and 

processing software, emphasising the unsurpassed 

performance of all digital cameras from compacts 

to SLRs, and their ability to produce truly amazing 

photographs. He concluded with a series of thoughtprovoking 

audio/visual presentations, demonstrating 

the impact of this media format, followed by a personal 

selection of his own photographs. A comprehensive 

and absorbing tour-de-force by a gifted amateur which 

revealed many hidden aspects of digital photography. 

The next meeting of the Society is at 7.30pm on 7 

October in the Deddington Arms Hotel when there will 

be a presentation by Roger Neill on ‘Better portraits 

than those of any painter’. 

John Branton 01295 811071 

Book Club 

At our last meeting we discussed Hawksmoor by Peter 

Ackroyd, a chilling murder-mystery set in 18th century 

and present day London. The basic premise of the 

story, the six churches built in London by Christopher 

Wren’s apprentice, is based on fact. The narrative 

switches back and forth in time with overlapping 

characters and the same actions replayed over two 

centuries. There was a diversity of feeling among the 

group. Some found it intriguing, most found it baffling 

and a few found it unreadable. The historical parts are 

written in the style and vocabulary of the time which 

makes it far from an easy read. However, he does write 

a good atmospheric story about 18th century London 

with good descriptions of the Fire of London and the 

Plague. The present day parts are less convincing. 

The next book is The Music Room by William Fiennes 

and the next meeting 29 October. 

Sally Lambert 338094 

Deddington and District History Society 

We were very pleased to welcome several new members 

to the Society at our first meeting of the season on 

9 September. Our series of talks began with an excellent 

presentation by Adrian Thornton of The Campaign 

for National Parks on ‘National Parks – not ours, but 

ours to look after’. No one can complain about lack 

of variety since our next meeting, on Wednesday 14 

October, will feature a talk by Andy Norton on ‘The 

Archaeology of Oxford Castle’. Andy will reveal how 

CALLING EVEN MORE CLUBS 

the excavations that preceded the recent commercial 

development of the castle site have transformed our 

knowledge, not only of the Norman and later castle 

buildings, but also of the late Saxon suburb that was 

buried beneath them. Even if you think you know the 

castle site, this will prove revelatory. 

On Wednesday 11 November Hilary Turner will talk 

about the ‘Mr Sheldon’s Tapestry Maps – an Elizabethan 

Panorama belonging to the Bodleian Library’. 

We hold our meetings at the Windmill Centre at 

7.30pm on the second Wednesday of each month from 

September to June. All are welcome to come along. 

Chris Day, Chairman 337204 

Moira Byast, Secretary 338637 

Deddington Badminton Club 

Our season is underway and we have our first win with 

our Mixed B team beating Marlborough 5 – 4. Our club 

night starts at 7.30pm with juniors an hour earlier at 

6.30pm. Membership is still available. For more details 

call Mark Tyler 01869 338056. 

Deddington Original Golf Society (DOGS) 

As the end of 2009 quickly approaches the final DOGS 

golf event is upon us. Our finale is at Kenilworth Golf 

Club on Friday 16 October 2009. This promises to 

be a special day as Kenilworth is a highly-respected 

course and a real challenge for even the most accomplished 

golfer! The format is a full day of golf with 

a 9-hole team competition and, following a break for 

lunch, an 18-hole individual competition. As it is our 

final DOGS day for 2009 some surprises will be the 

order of the day! 

David Darst 338589 

Weekly Diary 

Mon: Brownies, Windmill Centre, 6-7.30pm 

Mon: Youth Club, Windmill Centre, 7.00 – 9.00pm 

Mon: Bellringing Practice, Parish Church 

Tues: Craft Group, Holly Tree, 2.00 – 4.30pm 

Tues: Tennis Club, Windmill Centre, 10.00am 

Tues: Deddington Guides, Windmill Centre, 7.00-9.00pm 

Tues: Badminton Club, Windmill Centre, 7.00 – 10.00pm 

Tues: Youth Group. Parish Church, 7.00 - 8.30pm 

Alt Tues: Hempton Ladies, St Johns Hall, 2.00 – 4.00pm 

Wed in term time: Caterpillar Music for babies and toddlers, 

Windmill Centre, 10.00am 

Every other Wed: Friendship Club, Windmill, 2.30pm 

Wed: Boys’ Brigade Anchor Boys, Windmill Centre, 

5.00pm 

Wed: Boys’ Brigade Juniors, Windmill Centre, 5.45pm 

Wed: Boys’ Brigade Company, Parish Church, 7.00pm 

Thu: Art Group, Town Hall, 10.00 - 1.30 & 2.30 – 4.00pm 

Thu: Cubs, Windmill Centre, 6.00 – 7.30pm 

Thu: Scouts, Windmill Centre, 7.30–9 pm 

Fri: Coffee Morning in aid of Katharine House, Parish 

Church, 10.00am – noon 

Fri: Babies & Toddlers’, Windmill Centre, 9.30 – 11.00am 

Fri: Friendly Bridge Club, Holly Tree, 2.00 – 5.00pm 


16 -– October June 2009 2009 


GOOD NEIGHBOUR GROUP 

for Deddington, Clifton and Hempton October 2009 

The group offers help in a crisis or even with an everyday task such as collecting a 

prescription or doing some shopping. If you are unable to reach the appropriate person 

listed below, please telephone Molly Neild (338521) 

DEDDINGTON 

BULL RING, HORSEFAIR, VICTORIA TERRACE: 

Wendy Burrows, Market Place Cottage, 338082 

PHILCOTE STREET: 

Molly Neild, 1 Philcote Street, 338521 

EARL'S LANE, BANBURY ROAD: 

Janet Broadbent, Stone Court, Earl's Lane, 338173 

HUDSON STREET: 

Joyce Minnear, 2 Holly Tree Cottages, 338529 

HIGH STREET: 

Sally and Michael Allbrook, 11 High Street, 338374 

CHURCH STREET, MARKET PLACE, 

THE TCHURE: 

Annette Murphy, The Tchure, 336195 

GOOSE GREEN, HOPCRAFT LANE: 

John Burdon, Kempster Place, Philcote Street, 

338150 

CHAPMAN’S LANE, ST THOMAS STREET: 

Don and Eileen Anderson, Cricklewood, 

Chapman’s Lane, 338325 

NEW STREET: 

Walter Caporn, Mallards, New Street, 338402 

THE DAEDINGS, PIERS ROW: 

Helen Worrell, 18 The Daedings, 338189 

HEMPTON ROAD, THE PADDOCKS: 

Josie Stevens, The Sycamores, 

Hempton Road, 338305 

WINDMILL STREET, WINDMILL CLOSE, 

MACKLEY CLOSE: 

Pat Brittain, 28 The Daedings, 338685 

MILL CLOSE: 

Dennis Bagot, 29 Mill Close, 337422 

GAVESTON GARDENS: 

Adele Sullivan, 10 Gaveston Gardens, 337485 

CLIFTON ROAD, CASTLE St & FIELD BARNS: 

Barbara Lee, Hen Cloud, Castle Street, 338076 

THE LEYES: 

Kristin Thompson, 5 The Leyes, 337052 

HELPLINES 

AGE CONCERN HELPLINE 01235 278040 

ALZHEIMERS DISEASE SOC 01295 750622 

BANBURY BENEFITS ADVICE 01295 255863 

CARDIAC SUPPORT GROUP 01295 229373 

CARERS’ CENTRE 01295 264545 

CITIZENS' ADVICE BUREAU 0844 8487922 

CRUSE BEREAVEMENT ADVICE 01295 266350 

DIALABILITY 08456 251251 

DIAL-A-RIDE 01295 263777 

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH, CDC 01295 221940 

Pollution Control 01295 221632 

FAMILY MEDIATION SERVICE 01865 741781 

FURNITURE RECYCLE STORE 01295 267741 

KATHARINE HOUSE HOSPICE 01295 811866 

LIFE PREGNANCY COUNSELLING 01865 202435 

LONE PARENT HELPLINE 0800 0185026 

NHS DIRECT 0845 4647 

N OXON COMMUMITY DRUG AGENCY 

01295 273511 

PEST CONTROL 01295 221620 

RELATE - Marriage Guidance 01295 258141 

THE SAMARITANS 01295 270000 

SOUTHERN ELECTRIC CARELINE 0800 622 838 

(For over 60s call to register. Calls are free) 

SOCIAL SERVICES 01295 252421 

VICTIM SUPPORT 01865 751511 

VOLUNTEER BUREAU 01295 266090 

YOUNG HOMELESS 01295 259442 

HEMPTON: 

Rene Mahony, 15 St John's Way, 338438 

CLIFTON: 

Linda Davies, 10 Walnut Close, 337360 

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