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14 Buckden Roundabout
November 2017 Village News
Burberry Road, Buckden, Cambridgeshire, PE19 5UY
Tel: 01480 811101
www.buckdenvillagehall.co.uk email:admin@buckdenvillagehall.co.uk
Bookings
November is looking to be another busy month with a total of 138 activities/functions over the month. Some of these in-
clude a Dance School award ceremony, a Jivenites’ Weekender, the East Anglian Border Terrier Show, the Citizen’s Advice
AGM, a private party and the St Neots Farmer’s Barn Dance as well as all our regular hirers.
Safety signs and equipment around the Valley
The Trust has purchased two ‘No Swimming’ signs and two buoyancy aids which by now will be fitted around the Valley for
the safety of the community.
Paving behind the Hall
The paving slabs have been taken up and re-laid around the back of the Hall building by the Club terrace. A few slabs have
also been replaced.
How you can help Buckden Village Hall when buying online
As you know Buckden Village Hall Trust is a charity and it costs a lot of money to maintain and repair this building. Did you
know that whenever you buy anything online – from your weekly shop to your annual holiday – you could be raising money
for Buckden Village Hall Trust? There are nearly 3,000 retailers including Amazon, John Lewis, M&S, Aviva and Tesco who
will donate a percentage of the amount you spend to Buckden Village Hall Trust to say thank you for shopping with them.
It’s really simple and doesn’t cost you anything. All you have to do is:
1. Go to www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/buckdenvillagehall
2. Sign up for free
3. Get shopping! Your donations will be collected by easyfundraising and automatically sent to us!
There are no catches or hidden charges and Buckden Village Hall Trust will be extremely grateful for your donations :o)
Don’t forget that as residents of Buckden you all receive discounted rates on Hall hire. Please call or email me if you
would like to find out more information.
Jo Harvey, 01480 811101, admin@buckdenvillagehall.co.uk
BUCKDEN BRANCH - ROYAL BRITISH LEGION
Remembrance Sunday this year falls on the 12th November;
there will be the usual service at St. Mary’s Parish Church
and I hope to see as many of you as possible there. This
year, we will think of the great battles of 1917, Arras (and
Vimy Ridge), Messines Ridge, 3rd Ypres (Passchendaele) and
Cambrai and the many lives that even the successful ones
cost. As always, it would be very nice to have more of our
British Legion members on parade; perhaps we could regard
it as a practice for the centenary of the end of the Great War
next year; please join us if you can. We would also welcome
any serving or ex members of the armed forces (regular or
reserve) even if you are not members and, yes, I will try to
recruit you!
As you will have worked out, Armistice Day this year is Satur-
day 11th November, the day before Remembrance Sunday.
There will be the usual short ceremony at the War Memorial
starting at about 10.45 a.m. so do come along if you can.
The small group of active members of the branch continues
to shrink and we urgently need new blood. I am now retired
and will have more time to give to Legion matters, so I may
come calling!
Peter Mount. Chairman.
Poetry Corner
Whistles
The whistles pierced their sacred sound.
"My darling Betty, be assured I love you"
Love letters fell to the blood stained ground,
Catching our souls on that ever day.
The wind and the trees picked up the rhythm
While death remained in cold wet clay.
Shrivelling the lives of men who would never begat birth.
Driven into death by order and duty,
Their untold lives embraced by the wounded earth.
We cannot hear the whistles,
But men who did are immortalised in our memory.
Letters wrote, jokes made as the razor shaved bristles,
While we but bow, glad we do not have their dying
But live to keep the guns at bay,
Though desperate the trying.
Submitted by Peter Keable