4 - February 2021 - Community News Halesworth Millennium Green


WinterLight! Mystery Trail on the Green


If we are still allowed to exercise once a day at half-term week (Saturday the 13th to Sunday the 21st of February), you will be able on your daily walk to follow the WinterLight! Mystery Trail on the Green. Both by day and by night - take a torch, to get the full effects at dusk or in the dark - the Trail will go through Angel Meadow and up into the Folly. Starting from the basketball court, Angel is the first meadow you enter, then turn left over White Bridge, under the railway bridges and up into the Folly.


What will be on the Trail?


You will be able to follow the Trail at your own pace and time by downloading a map and mystery-story outline from the Millennium Green website, or connect by the QR code which will be on the posters. There will be a puzzle to work out and lots of animals to look for. Send in a photo of yourself on the Trail with one of the animals you find, with or without the solution to the


puzzle, and your photo will go onto the website - and be entered for a (very small) prize. Look out for the Library window display (rules permitting) and for posters which will also carry details about the Trail. Paper copies of the Trail will be at the Library if it is allowed to open during half-term. Volunteer work parties on the Green have been suspended for the time being, a combination of the weather and covid rules. Meanwhile, if you spot anything amiss (fencing down, paths needing attention) let us know so that we can deal with it as quickly and safely as possible. The


website Millennium Green


https://millenniumgreen. halesworth.net


carries news of past and future events, photos, wildlife records, history and geology. Contact the Green directly on


thegreen@halesworth.net or (only for really urgent things) ring 07811 630946.


(Halesworth)Ltd C.W.Ellis


Dee’s Den Charity Shop Raising money for The Pear Tree Fund Here we are again in


lockdown! As I write our February report, I do not know when we will be able to open the shop again. Our yearly income for last year is £16,000 less than our previous 2019 total. So, we will be asking for your continued support when the shop is able to open once again. Our massive 3 2 1 sale will commence as soon as we are able to open - with all items reduced to £3, £2, £1 - some 50p, 20p and 10p! Come and pick up a bargain! We look forward to welcoming you back. For those who haven't been in recently, do come and see us. It's a safe place to shop with us all wearing face masks, social distancing, a one- way system and all the guidance to keep customers and volunteers safe.


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The main Dee's Den shop plans to be open six mornings a week, open 10am until 1pm Monday to Saturday. We have different promotions every week, with our popular £1 rail – outside if the weather is good. We sell plants and produce


too when we have donations. You can now pay by credit card as well a cash as we have installed a card machine for payment. We have a wide variety of items: ladies and men's winter clothes, shoes and boots, baby and children's clothes and shoes, children's books (now from 10p), Jigsaws, games, puzzles, handbags, shopping bags as well as some luggage. We have an assortment of bric- a-brac and kitchenware, linen, tableware, curtains, bedding (all in our clearance sale) as well as books and some items of small furniture.


Ann provides us with a wide range of jams and marmalades. If you haven't tasted her products, you are missing a treat! Thank you Ann, for your continued support.


If you have been having a clear out during lockdown, just to remind you, we accept donations on Mondays and Thursdays from 10am until 1pm (twice a week allows us to quarantine items


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Halesworth Museum 80 Years on: Halesworth's darkest hour


Saturday January 18th, 1941 was Halesworth’s darkest wartime hour. It was a cold day with flurries of snow. Some time between one and two in the afternoon, a Dornier 17 bomber was spotted approaching the coast over Southwold. Men of the Royal Observers Corp post at Southwold rang through a warning to their opposite numbers, who had just come on duty at their dug-out post in a field north of the Holton Road. Soon, the familiar sound of sirens was echoing over the town. The aircraft circled the town three times, watched by many eyes. At length, the aircrew having taken stock of the town, a string of eight high-explosive bombs was seen falling from the plane. The noise of explosions followed seconds later. The aircraft then headed off to the east, firing a salvo of machine- gun fire towards the Observer post as it left, then hedgehopping away at low level to avoid radar on its way back to the sea. On duty in the telephone exchange was 26-year old Miriam Holland. At 1:55, less than an hour into her spell of duty, she, like everyone else in the town, heard the crash


Happy Birthday Evie!


Happy 18th birthday Evie for February 13th. Lots of love from Mum, Maisie, Cassie, Annie and all the family xx


Christine and Alan Hall


Reconstruction of Halesworth Station before it was bombed


of explosions. Immediately the switchboard flashed up the numbers of telephones which were no longer functioning. Among them she was horrified to recognise her own family phone number. Miriam had moved


Walter and Hannah, had both been killed in the explosion. A rescue team found the home- help, Joan Clarke, seriously injured. She died in an ambulance on the way to the hospital. Four days later, the town was


to Halesworth two years before. Her father was the station master and they lived 'over the shop', above the station offices and waiting room. She immediately ran home to see what had happened, finding a site of devastation. Two-thirds of the station building lay in smoking ruins. Her father and mother,


in mourning. Three coffins, draped in Union Jacks, were taken from St Mary’s Church to the cemetery on the back of a railway lorry, through streets lined with townspeople. The shattered station building was never rebuilt to its former size. What remains, now housing the offices of the community


bus and the town's museum, is about a third the size of the original building. Had the world not been in another form of crisis eighty years on, visitors would have been able to see a commemorative exhibition in the Museum. It was not to be. But we can at least ask the people of Halesworth to remember, eighty years on, those victims of another bitter time.


For more information on this subject visit:


http://halesworthmuseum.org. uk/wpress/the-bombing-of-the- station-in-1941/


In Memory of Sadie Church January 6th marks a year


for the recommended 72 hours, before being sorted). PLEASE only bring 2 or 3 bags or boxes at a time. Please DO NOT leave bags or goods at the door when we are closed.


Everything needs to be clean and saleable. Just a reminder - we don't accept electrical items. Deliver items to the sorting end of the shop in Steeple End - you can pull up outside the door! Clean but worn clothing and bedding is accepted too for recycling, please mark the bags as 'recycling'. We really value the continued support of this local charity by the local community. Every penny spent in the shop, after rent and electricity, supports the work of the charity. The Pear Tree Centre (next door to Cutlers Hill Surgery) continues to provide advice and support for the people of Halesworth and surrounding 15-mile area who have a life changing condition, also, where their families can seek help and support too. Phone the centre manager Seva and her team on 01986 899655


– they are there to help you. We also provide additional care for those registered with Cutlers Hill surgery, enabling people to be cared for at home at end of life, so people can die at home if this is their wish. We couldn't function without our amazing shop volunteers: Linda, Eileen, Sue E, Pauline, Jill, Chrissie, Katy, Jane, Chris, Gay, Valda, Erica, Anne, Bernadette, Sue B, Dawn, Noman, Ann, Susie, Dot, Irene, Viv, Anne, Cathy, Pam, Marie, Val, Felicity and Mary and Trustees Jane, Barb, Frances. Some of our volunteers are yet to re-join the team but we look forward to seeing them back with us when they are able. A special thank you to Sue and Debbie for running our Christmas tombola again, raising a few extra pounds for the fund. Thank you, Glen, Heath, Colin, Maggie and Bob for your help and support too. We look forward to seeing you. Keep well, keep safe.


Thank you, Nikki


since I lost my sister Sadie Church, to pancreatic cancer. After such a tough year of fighting all to be taken from us far too soon.


So sadly and greatly missed


by all, but we have a great many fond memories. Mark Punchard


Christine and Alan Hall wish everyone a happy and peaceful New Year. After a very difficult pandemic year just gone, thoughts are with those who lost loved ones. Please keep safe! Donations in lieu of Christmas cards and from kind-hearted people to oliverhallmuchloved. com have reached £24,609.70 for Meningitis Now.


Oliver was a kind, loving, funny and beloved little boy who just loved Christmas. He left some lovely memories – but also broken hearts.


Thank you


Norwich City Supporters


City continue to be at the top of the Championship table without playing particularly well. The inability to get a second goal has nearly cost us points in our home games with Q.P.R and Barnsley. Our injured players are gradually returning. To have Tim Krul back in goal was a massive boast. The January transfer window will bring more rumours about possible player sales, particularly Max Aarons and Emi Buendia. Messrs Farke and Webber have repeatedly said that no one will leave unless 'silly money' is offered. But with Arsenal and Man Utd apparently interested, who knows what will happen. Our Fantasy Football League competition continues to be a two horse race between Bob and Chris M. Bob was briefly top over the Christmas period but Chris M has returned to the number one position - but only by six points. These two are over a hundred points clear of the rest with Josh, Matthew and Dave still bringing up the rear. With yet another lockdown in place, we will be unable to hold our usual meetings, hopefully the upcoming vaccine rollout will bring an end to a dreadful time.


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