August 2020

3 Buckden Roundabout August 2020 Buckden Roundabout Team Lead Editor - Articles & Events Ian Carter, Email: editor@buckdenroundabout.info 33 Beaufort Drive, Buckden, PE19 5YU 07515 737636 Editor and 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 photo was taken by Aidan Joy and is of an emperor dragonfly laying eggs in the mill pond at Buckden Flour Mills. We are looking for more paintings of any kind that we could use as a front cover. We can photograph them if you only have original artwork. We are also keen to get images (photos or paintings) of the village and surrounding areas in prepara- tion for future issues. Please note that images 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 Buck- den Parish Council can accept any responsibility for the con- tent of the advertisements, the services provided by the ad- vertisers 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 SEPTEMBER EDITION IS NO LATER THAN 4.30 pm ON MONDAY 10TH AUGUST . 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. August Production Dates Production dates for the September Edition of the Roundabout are as follows: Copy deadline: Monday 10 August Proof Reading Friday 14 August Copy to Printers Tuesday 18 August Distribution Thursday 27 August Contents Buckden Parish Council 4 County Councillor 5 Church News 6 - 8 For Your Diary 9 Buckden school history 10, 11 African Orphanage 14, 15 Village News 13, 16, 17 Advertisements & Classifieds 12, 18 - 24 August 2020 Welcome to the on - line only August edition of the Rounda- bout. If all goes well, and assuming nothing unforeseen, we are expecting to return to print for the next edition. So, look out for the magazine through your letter box or on your door- mat towards the end of August. Residents have started moving in to the new Bloor Homes Luck ’ s Lane development and we are, of course, planning to deliver the Roundabout there. However, we need a distribu- tor, ideally a resident in the development. We expect to deliv- er to about 10 homes in our next edition and to about 25 homes by the end of the year. If you are interested in volun- teering, please contact our distribution team at distribu- tion@buckdenroundabout.info . We continue with Wendy Trattner ’ s history of Buckden School on page 10. As we are getting closer to the present time in next month ’ s edition, we ’ d like people who attended Buckden School to send photos of themselves in school uniform, that we might include in the article. Send the photos to edi- tor@buckdenroundabout.info . On page 14, we start a new series of articles documenting Buckden resident Keith Lawrence ’ s work to design and help build an orphanage on a remote island in Lake Victoria, Kenya. Follow Keith ’ s exciting adventure in this and the next couple of editions. Thanks to all our readers who have stuck with us through the several editions that were available on - line only. We can ’ t wait till next month when we deliver paper copies again. Please remember to visit the Roundabout website. There are often articles there that we could not fit into the print edition, as well as information that arrives during the month: http:// www.buckdenroundabout.info/ This month ’ s editor - Alec MacAndrew Editor ’ s Page