October 2020

3 Buckden Roundabout October 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 The cover this month is a painting of the tower at St Mary ’ s seen through the trees and is by a Buckden resident. 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 NOVEMBER EDITION IS NO LATER THAN 4.30 pm ON SATURDAY 10TH OCTOBER . 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. October Production Dates Production dates for the October Edition of the Roundabout are as follows: Copy deadline: Saturday 10 October Proof Reading Friday 16 October Copy to Printers Tuesday 20 October Distribution Thursday 29 October Contents Buckden Parish Council 4 County Councillor & Neighbourhood Watch 5 District Councillor 6 Village News 7, 16 - 17 Church News 8 - 10 For Your Diary 11 African Orphanage 12, 13 RAF Gransden Lodge 14, 15 Advertisements & Classifieds 18 - 24 October 2020 We were delighted to finally get the Buckden Roundabout back into print and through the letterboxes with the Septem- ber edition and the response to the return has been very posi- tive. As we said last month, it has been a peculiar five months! As you know, we are an editorial team and we all bring different, but valuable, skills and interests to the table, and we each have our own areas of responsibility. I ’ m one of the co - editors and this is the first time that I have undertaken the editing duties since before lockdown started! I must confess I was slightly concerned that I would not re- member what I had to do, or would forget entirely! Fortunate- ly that has not proven to be the case and I was quickly back into the swing of things and enjoying every minute of the ed- iting process. Keith Lawrence ’ s story of helping to design and build an or- phanage in Kenya concludes this month on pages 12 and 13. You can catch up on parts 1 and 2 in the online - only August edition with part 3 published in the September edition. Also this month, starting on page 14, we have the first part (of 2) of an article about RAF Gransden Lodge by Richard Storey, Secretary of the Buckden Local History Society. When circum- stances allow, BLHS meet on the first Wednesday of the month with a different speaker and topic and are well worth looking - up when the current restrictions ease. Please remember to visit the Roundabout website. As well as every edition from 2013 onwards available to see, there are often articles there that we could not fit into the print edition, as well as information that arrives during the month: www.buckdenroundabout.info This month ’ s editor - Ian Carter Editor ’ s Page