regular news about the village
issue 14 OCTOBER2008
CarlbyVillage Hall - The Social Nights at the village hall are going from strength to strength with more and more people from the village joining together in a very convivial mood. (Could the really cheap alcohol have something to do with this?) Bring your friends alongto theQUIZ NIGHT on Saturday 18 October, 8.00pm, and make up teams of four on the night. A small charge will be made to enter the quiz, but there will be prizes! As usual the drinks will be far cheaper than the pub and there will be free snacks on every table.
Friendly Club - the September meeting of the Friendly Cub was most enjoyable and you may have heard the laughter echoing around the village as stories of disastrous holidays were told. After a welcome cup of tea and chocolate biscuits, we all enjoyed either a game of darts or table tennis as well as dominoes and cards.The next meeting is on Wednesday 17thOctober at 2.00pm in the village hall.
WI –meet on Tuesday 14th October at 7.30 pm in Carlby Village Hall, with Kelvin McKechnie – ‘A Fireman's Tale’. Should be good fun, there is apparently a video presentationas well.
Parish Council – the next meeting is on 23 October at 7.30 pm in the village hall.
Church Barn Dance -the Church Barn Dance led by the 'Wagon Load of Monkeys' will take place in the village hall on Saturday 4th October 7.30 to 11 p.m. Tickets are still available at £10 each including ploughman's supper (reductions for youngsters attending with a family member). Please contact Monica Smithers or Roger Shead or other PCC members to get tickets.
Villagers please also note that the Harvest Festival Servicewill be at 3 p.m. on Sunday 12th October led by Hazel Whitfield. There will be the usual fun auction of produce and other gifts after the service. Note there is no 10.30 a.m. service that day, but the usual said communion service will be held at 8.00 a.m.And, book the date of Saturday 8 November at 7.00pm for a Safari Supper (details later).
Carlby Walkers – the next walk is on Wednesday 8 October,from Fotheringhay to Woodnewton. Meet at 10.30 am at the village hall.
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Youth Club Open Meeting
Roger Shead reports: under the HOPE 2008 initiative an openmeeting was held in the village hall on Friday 12th September to discuss ideas for starting up again the youth club that ran for several years in the village. The meeting was not well attended and so this idea, raised by quite a number of people at the HOPE meeting earlier in the year, may be difficult to take forward at this time.
During the discussions details about youth clubs in Thurlby, Tallington, Essendine, Ryhall, Whissendine and other places weredescribed. The Thurlby Club is run at theMethodist Church Hall by local enthusiasts. The Tallington Club is based on table tennis, also has a senior sectionand again is run by local enthusiasts. The other clubs mentioned are in Rutland and there they are organised and led by local authoritystaff often using a mobile centre for the activities.
Some further investigation will be made into possible SKDC support for a youth club in the village, but the cause could be greatly helped if parents with children in the age range 10 - 14 indicated their interest in the plans. Please contact Roger Shead if you are interested in this issue (tel.590180).
What is the Carlby Consolidated Charity?
In 1909 two Charities, the Charity of Lister Tigh and acharity of an unknown donor, were amalgamated to form the Carlby Consolidated Charities. The Charity distributes the income from the rent of a small field at Bainton which it owns.
Originally the income was used to buy coal for the poor of the Parish, but in more recent years it has been used to provide a meat voucher to some of our older residents at Christmas.It is redeemable at Fancourts of Ryhall. Occasionally, small grants have been given to residents who faced special difficulties; and a donation of £30.00 was made in 1973 towards the provision of the bus shelters.
Currently twenty one residents receive a meat voucher at Christmas, which uses almost all of the annual income of £192.60. However, the Trustees are still able to make small one-off grants in exceptional circumstances.If you would like to know more about this Charity please feel free to contact any of the Trustees listed below:
Chairman - Clare Cook 590458
Treasurer/Secretary - Mike Paulson 590329
Dan Pope - 590200
Veronica McCutchen – 590166.
Playing Field – Andrew Ferguson writes:
Our fund raising Coffee Morning was very well attended and somehow remained dry and sunny. We raised close to £160. Thanks to all those who attended, and a special thanks for raffle prizes donated from Ryhall Post Office (wine), the mobile Fish and Chip van (meal for two) and Smithy’s of Stamford (free haircut). Also thank you to those who could not make it on the day but sent donations.
In August we held our first tennis tournament, again the weather held out for us and despite a slightly disappointing turn out we managed a full day of fun. Thanks go to the Carlby Bowls club who kindly provided access to the club house and to those who came along on the day to support the players.
After a hard fought tournament (I was resoundingly beaten - twice) the eventual final brought us to an exciting climax as Barry Hopkins did battle with Sam Bainbridge. Barry made a valiant attempt but the young Bainbridge wasvictorious in the end claiming the much coveted 1st prize, anofficial Wimbledon towel. Well done to all the players (I keep reminding myself, it’s the taking part that counts).
Meanwhileusual business continues, the football pitch has been regularly marked out, we have had extra deliveries of the play bark to top up the children's play area and we have also had a recent visit from the ROSPA inspector and await the annual report and recommendations.
Bowls Club – at the Club Finals Carlby resident Alan Barnes was the star of the day, winning the Men’s Singles Finalagainst David Richardson and then going on to win the Triples Event in partnership with Lional Tupholme and Mike Paulson. They beat Shirley Olley, Margaret Richardson and Betty Barnes.
Earlier things had gone better for Shirley who retained her Ladies Singles title by winning a close fought match against Val Cooke. Val's daughter Lucy, in partnership with her father Ian, won in the Doubles Final against Margaret Richardson and John Ardin.
Villagers will have seen that the door to the village hall was damaged. The incident was witnessed and the police were called. The case is on-going.
The Templemans of Carlby
Ian Dair writes:
Martin Noakes can tell you about the Templemans of Carlby, 1588-2008. Martin lives in Leicestershire but his mother is a Templeman. As Martin says, ‘When I stand in the centre of St. Stephen’s churchyard, I am in the presence, within 50 yards in all directions, of an unbroken line of my ancestors stretching back from my late grandfather Albert Templeman, 1914-1979, to Roger Templeman, Tailor of Carlby in the reign of Elizabeth 1’.
Martin has traced the detailed family tree that far back (it probably goes back further still) and has a fund of stories about old Carlby, gleaned from sitting at the knee of Templeman kin. I would hope to get some of these into the newsletter when space allows (Martin has one about his grandfather Alf riding a motorbike into the parish pump, another about Christmas in Carlby in the 1920s told to him by Robert Peter Templeman, memories of visiting the Templemans Haulage garage as a child in the 1970s, and many more).
Martin has a copy of my book ‘Carlby Then and Now’ and has asked if the village can help with some questions which the book has raised. The answers may help with his on-going research into the family history:
1. John Henry Templeman had a farm(in the mid-19th century) known as 'The Green Farm, Carlby' - does anyone know where that was? In the censuses, it was called Green Farm, Templeman’s Farm and simply the Farm, and may have been in West Street?
2. On p. 47 of the book, who is the Mrs. Templeman in the photo? (I can’t remember who gave me this photo when I was putting the book together)
3. Does anyone have a photo of William Wright Templeman, who was the village sexton along with Mr. Neverson from about 1930 to the 1960s? Great-Great-Uncle Billy played quoits for the village and won many prizes in the area. Apparently, Billy didn’t like having his photo taken, so he may be in someone else’s by mistake, hiding behind someone’s shoulder?
If you can help Martin with these queries, please let me know and I will pass the information on to him. As a final example of Martin’s knowledge, he has traced the origin of the name. ‘Templeman’ comes from the fact that, in the middle ages, the family were servants of the Knights Templar of South Witham Preceptory on one of their outlying properties at Carlby. After the Order was abolished in 1312, the family, says Martin, became named after their role locally as ‘The Temple’s Men’.
‘Carlby Now’ is produced by the Parish Council withthe help of village organisations – editor Ian Dair 01778 590525