Newsletter
South
Hill Connection, Issue 16, August 2010
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In
this edition...
Editorial
Dear Newsletter
Guest
Book
Parish
Hall News
Horticultural Show & Fun Day
Notices
St
Sampson's Church Services
Golberdon
Christian Fellowship
Golberdon Play Matters
Callington Heritage Centre
Cornwall
Council - John Turner
Callington Young Farmers Club
Welcome To Cornwall!
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EDITORIAL
Welcome
to the latest edition of the South Hill Connection
newsletter

As our editor is away on family business, our Editorial will be brief in this issue. (Faint cheering
in the distance?)
In this issue we introduce several new contributors - Mr Geoff Hilton on the
history of one of the most interestingly-named houses in
the Parish, Wagmuggle; Cat Ede on Callington Young Farmers
Club; and Linda Scott, who has found that contrary to rumour,
Cornish people can be very friendly and welcoming. We are
always on the lookout for new and interesting content for
the newsletter, so if you have any ideas, please get in touch.
As we publish this issue we are looking forward to the Annual Horticultural Show, which takes place at the Parish Hall on Saturday August 21st.
The recipe for Sultana and Orange Cake to enter in the cookery
classes is printed below - give it a try, it's easy...
[The picture above was taken at the Show last year].
If
you want to write a letter to the editor, or contribute
to our next newsletter, please call or email:
Geoff
(editor@south-hill.co.uk or telephone 362623)
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Dear Newsletter
Will our town become a ghost town?
Dear Sir
With the supermarket giant Tesco due to open its doors in Callington in a few
weeks’ time, am I the only one worried about the consequences
for the town and surrounding area?
When large supermarkets open in small
towns, it is well known that local small traders suffer, and
often fold under the pressure exerted by headline loss-leaders,
free parking and cheap fuel offered by Tesco et al. Many towns
have become virtual ghost towns as a result.
Admittedly, Callington is hardly a cornucopia
of exciting locally-sourced produce, and Tesco will of course
do very well here. But do we really want our local baker, newsagent
and fishmonger to disappear? Or Spar and the Co-op? Will we
no longer buy local fruit and veg from Tamar View, or meat
from Chris Rounsevell or Philip Warren, eggs from Geraldine
and Hayley, or honey and pickles from Berrio Mill?
Tesco will not source goods from local producers. The vast
majority of goods sold by all supermarkets are brought by heavy
lorries from every corner of the UK, to
the detriment of our road system and our environment. As
we (South Hill residents) travel around the area by car, we can support our local businesses without adding more food miles.
In some areas of the country, Tesco takes
up to 80p in every £1 spent on food and drink, because local
people blindly follow where the cheap offers are, too lazy
to support their old friends, or to pop in to the farm shop
on their way home from work.
Now is the time for us to make some good
resolutions, before Tesco takes Callington and the surrounding
districts by storm. Of course we need supermarkets, but we
need a healthy local economy more. What are we all going to
do to ensure that our town doesn’t become a ghost town, and
that our local producers are not pushed out in the cold?
What are YOU going to do?
Yours
faithfully
S
A Skelton
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Your Newsletter needs YOU!
Dear
Reader,
Your 'South Hill Connection' newsletter and website has been
going now for several years, and is proving to be a popular
means of keeping everyone in the parish - and some well beyond
it - in touch with what is happening here. The small team
of volunteers who produce and run it are now down to only
four
people, and we urgently need some extra help. You don't need
to be either a computer expert or a experienced journalist
(although both would be very welcome), just to have an interest
in our parish, and a small amount of time available each
month. I am sure we can find something interesting for anybody
to
do, so if you would like to help please give me a call on
362623, or e-mail
Geoff Clemerson
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In
this edition...
Editorial
Dear
Newsletter
Guest
Book
Parish
Hall News
Horticultural
Show & Fun Day
Notices
St
Sampson's Church Services
Golberdon
Christian Fellowship
Golberdon
Play Matters
Callington
Heritage Centre
Cornwall
Council - John Turner
Callington
Young Farmers Club
Welcome
To Cornwall! |
South
Hill Parish Hall
Parish
Hall Committee Report
Meeting held on Tuesday 27th July 2010
The meeting with Russell Geake from Community Energy Plus, relating to the Photovoltaic
cells for the Hall roof, did not have a positive result. At
the moment the funding has dried up but the new Government
is very keen on renewable energy so we have not given up hope
and will continue to monitor the situation.
Unfortunately there is no support from any of the Hall users
or local groups for the Fun
Day this year but the Hall Committee
will be providing a Duck Shy and Skittles. Due to the lack
of support there will not be a Fun Day next year. Maybe there
will be more enthusiasm in 2012 that being Olympics year, so
we will think again then.
We are in the process of applying for a Grant to have a Hearing
Loop installed in the Hall. Stephen Gilbert from Kernow Installations,
Launceston has made a site visit and given us a firm quotation
and will be able to link the loop into our current P.A. system.
The next panel for the grant application from Cornwall Community
Foundation is not until November so we have some time to wait
before ascertaining our success in this venture.
There is a possibility of a Chiropodist,
Neil Oliver, holding
clinics in the Parish Hall. Watch this space!
The date of the Barn
Dance is confirmed as 30th October. Final
arrangements have been made for both the Harvest Supper, 11th
September and the Barn Dance. Tickets for both will be on sale
at the Show/Fun Day on 21st August and also available from
committee members.
We are no further forward with regards to the Hall
Car Park Lighting and the remaining possibility is to make adjustments
to the existing lights situated on the front porch, with on/off
controls in the hall. As a point of interest the Hall Car Park
is not available for off road parking for local residents.
It needs to be kept free for Hall users. Thank you.
The
next Parish Hall meeting will be held on Monday 8th November at 7.30pm.
Pat
Moren
Chairman South Hill Parish Hall
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your club or organisation need somewhere to meet?
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have a pleasant, well equipped village hall available
for hire.
Hall
Hire rates (please note these have been revised this summer):
- Regular
users: £12 per session
- Other
users: £20 per session
- Commercial
use: £50 per session
- Evening
party: £30 + £10 setting up or clearing up time
- Wedding
packages £150 (includes Friday, Saturday and Sunday morning)
- Short
bookings: £5 per hour
- If
rubbish is not removed, there will be a £5 surcharge
There
are three sessions a day, morning; afternoon; evening.
For
more information contact:
Peta
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or email hallbooking@south-hill.co.uk
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In
this edition...
Editorial
Dear
Newsletter
Guest
Book
Parish
Hall News
Horticultural
Show & Fun Day
Notices
St
Sampson's Church Services
Golberdon
Christian Fellowship
Golberdon
Play Matters
Callington
Heritage Centre
Cornwall
Council - John Turner
Callington
Young Farmers Club
Welcome
To Cornwall! |
51st
South Hill Horticultural Show and Fun Day

Start your preparations early!
Bring on those flowers and vegetables!
Finish those craft projects!
Practice the recipes!
YOU could be a winner on August 21st....
DOWNLOAD THE FULL PROGRAMME HERE...
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Entry
fees for all classes are 10p. Children’s classes 94 – 110,
5p.
Entry
forms and fees should be sent to the Secretary together
with all
cups won in 2009, not later than Monday 16th August
2010.
Entries
can be submitted at the Hall on Monday 16th
from 6:30 -
7 :30pm.
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Recipe - Sultana & Orange Cake
Enter your cake in the Show, class number 70
Ingredients: 4 ozs butter, 6 ozs caster sugar, 8 ozs SR flour, 3 eggs, 4ozs sultanas,
2 fluid ozs orange juice, 2 tbspns grated orange rind.
Method: Cream butter and caster sugar. Add eggs and rind. Then
gradually add the sifted flour and orange juice. Finally add
the sultanas.
Bake for 1 hour at 160C, 325F or gas mark 3 in
a greased and lined 8” tin. Remove from the oven and allow
to stand for 15 minutes before removing from tin. Put on a
cake rack to cool.
Enjoy!
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In
this edition...
Editorial
Dear
Newsletter
Guest
Book
Parish
Hall News
Horticultural
Show & Fun Day
Notices
St
Sampson's Church Services
Golberdon
Christian Fellowship
Golberdon
Play Matters
Callington
Heritage Centre
Cornwall
Council - John Turner
Callington
Young Farmers Club
Welcome
To Cornwall! |
NOTICES
For
full details of what is happening in the Parish, please
visit our Events page, which is kept as up-to-date as possible...
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Events
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Weekly
Yoga Classes
Monday evenings
5pm in
the Parish Hall
Phone Lilian on 389115 to check times and dates
All
are welcome
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Horticultural
Show & Fun Day
Saturday
21st August 2010
Details and programme available here...
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Harvest
Supper
Saturday
11th September 2010
in
the Parish Hall
Entertainment from Chris
Andrews
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Golberdon Play Matters Fund Raising Event
Saturday 18th September 2010
at the Parish Hall, Golberdon
7:30 -
11:30pm
featuring
the "METS" Band (who are kindly
donating their services for the evening to Golberdon Play Matters)
Tickets( to include light supper) £5 for adults,
£2.50 for children under 13yrs
Further
details to follow
Please support your local recreation field regeneration,
it's for all of us,
whatever age!
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Barn
Dance
Saturday
30th October 2010
in
the Parish Hall
Music by
the Ideal Village Band
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St
Sampson's Church Services
Services
are held in St Sampson's Church, South Hill every Sunday at 11:15am. All are welcome.

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Golberdon
Christian Fellowship Meetings
The
Fellowship meet in the Parish Hall every Sunday at 6:00pm. All are welcome.
Download
the latest list of speakers here...
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Golberdon Play Matters
We
have some very exciting news, that we have funding from Viridor Waste Management, at Liskeard. We had a deadline of 19th July and only a few days to complete,
due to holidays and other commitments. This is
a real boost for our parish play area, and costs of the ground work will almost be covered by this grant.
However,
we still have to purchase and install the play equipment after the groundworks are complete and we are hoping that we will be fortunate
in our quest for funding from SITA CORNWALL TRUST.
The
Fun Day was just that......with good weather and good company and thank you to everyone
who helped us raise just over £500.
We
are also planning another fund raising event on Saturday 18th September, at the Parish Hall, Golberdon, featuring the"METS" Band (who are kindly donating their services for the evening to Golberdon Play
Matters); 7:30pm - 11:30pm, tickets( to include light supper)
will be £5 each for adults and £2.50 for children under
13yrs. Further details to follow.
Please
support your local recreation field regeneration, it's
for all of us, whatever age!
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In
this edition...
Editorial
Dear
Newsletter
Guest
Book
Parish
Hall News
Horticultural
Show & Fun Day
Notices
St
Sampson's Church Services
Golberdon
Christian Fellowship
Golberdon
Play Matters
Callington
Heritage Centre
Cornwall
Council - John Turner
Callington
Young Farmers Club
Welcome
To Cornwall! |
Callington
Heritage Centre
I have recently become involved as a volunteer at Callington
Heritage Centre in Liskeard Road and it occurred to me that
there may be lots of people in South Hill who have never
visited it. If you get a chance, do call in – it is open
every Friday, Saturday and Sunday until the end of September
from 10am until 4pm.
The current major exhibition is about
Kit Hill including information about early settlers on the
hill, wildlife of the hill, mining activity, the putting
green and the tea shop.
There is also an exhibition to mark the centenary of the Girl
Guides Association.
Apart from the exhibitions, the Centre has a
wealth of information about Callington and surrounding parishes both for the recent
and the not so recent past, such as photographs, newspaper
cuttings, maps, old posters, census lists and parish registers.
The stewards on duty can help visitors find particular information
or you can just ask to browse.
Entry
to the Centre is free, but donations are welcomed. If
you have never been, pay a visit before the centre closes for
the winter. If you have been before, call again – I can guarantee
you will find something new each time.
Next
year’s main exhibition will be about pubs and alehouses.
I am researching South Hill and Stoke Climsland for this, so
if anyone has any information, anecdotes or photographs about
our lost pubs or about the temperance movement, I would love
to hear from you.
Further
information is available on the web site: www.callingtonheritage.org.uk or contact enquiry@callingtonheritage.org.uk
South
Hill’s own Local History Group has been a bit dormant
for the last few months due to the many other commitments of
members, but we will be getting going again in the autumn.
Watch this space, or contact me. Miranda
Lawrance-Owen
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I have just returned from a holiday when we had a good rest and visited family
on the Isle of Man so am trying to catch up on all that has
happened whilst I have been away.
Government announcements on funding issues seem to have preoccupied the Cabinet
and Senior Officers as well as Members of Cornwall Council.
Much has been reported in the national press and there is no
doubt that there will be many changes ahead which will be unpalatable
to some but which it seems will be necessary in order to reduce
the burden of the national debt.
At a local level it was announced that
there will be cuts to many services in order to fund the predicted
savings of £13.7 million which will have to be made. However
it appears that there will be a further reduction of over £2
million in the government grant to Cornwall Council. Using
reserves to fund services has been ruled out by the Cabinet
on the grounds that it will delay the implementation of the
cuts and add to the problem which will have to be faced next
year.
On a brighter note the Council have been
actively seeking to ensure that Convergence Funding from Europe is not lost as it is important that this regeneration money
is used to develop our economy. The Leader and Chief Executive
have been in discussion with the Prime Minister along with
the business community to identify the special needs of Cornwall.
At the Liskeard Show I was privileged
to be present at the formal launch of the Caradon Hill Area
Heritage Project. Congratulations to Pensilva School for jointly
winning the first prize in the banner competition.
A lot of work on the project over a number of years has gone
into this and the funding is now in place to ensure that the
story of the mining history of our area is preserved for the
future generations who will inhabit this special area. If you
are interested in joining the mailing list so that you can
keep up to date with what is happening you can call the Minions
Office on 01579 362350 or e mail arobinson@cornwall.gov.uk
I hope you have a really enjoyable August
and wish you well for the various events which will be taking
place during the summer holidays.
Please do
not hesitate to contact me if you have any concerns
or problems on 01579 362122 and I will do my best to
help or advise you.
Cllr.
John Turner
Cornwall
Council
St. Ive ED
01579 362122
johnturner@cornwall.gov.uk
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Editorial
Dear
Newsletter
Guest
Book
Parish
Hall News
Horticultural
Show & Fun Day
Notices
St
Sampson's Church Services
Golberdon
Christian Fellowship
Golberdon
Play Matters
Callington
Heritage Centre
Cornwall
Council - John Turner
Callington
Young Farmers Club
Welcome
To Cornwall! |
Callington Young Farmers Club
 Callington Young Farmers club is a charitable organisation for young people from
the age of 14 to 27 years.

Over the years large sums of money
have been raised to benefit other charities including St John’s
Ambulance, Dogs for the Blind, Cornwall Air Ambulance and Leukaemia
Research. This year’s charity is Riding for the Disabled (RDA),
based at Stoke Climsland.
This year started with our annual Christmas
party where members
dressed to impress with the fancy dress theme as movie stars.
The evening progressed with games put on by advisory members.
To start the New Year a clay
pigeon shoot was held, for YFC
members, friends and family. Despite the cold many turned out
and a good day was had by all.
In February, five tractors and trailers full with bags of dung
went out into Callington and surrounding areas for our annual
dung sale, raising over £1000 for our chosen charity. Two weeks
later the annual “mowathon” took place. Members spent the day
cutting lawns and again raising a further £300 for the RDA.
June this year was a busy calendar month with the horse show,
Royal Cornwall show and our Disco.
The horse
show was held at Trewell Farm by kind permission
from Mr and Mrs Cuming. The day consisted of various competitions
including a dog show. With the attendance of Bob Macready from
Pirate FM and his dogs winning a few prizes the event was a
great success, raising over £800.
The
Young Farmers’ cubicle theme at Royal
Cornwall Show this
year was nursery rhymes, with Callington’s being “There was
a Crooked Man” (picture to the right - click to enlarge). With
the club’s efforts, hours of preparation and hard work the
end
result
was fourth
position
out of the
20 clubs in Cornwall. We also entered a poster promoting our
club, coming second, and a painting, also second.
To end June, Callington club held a disco at
Polhilsa Farm by kind permission of Mr and Mrs Barriball, adding
another £800
to the club funds.
July sees Chairman’s
Challenge where members will cycle to
Siblyback Lake and then have an afternoon of raft building
and bbq to finish off. Other events the club has yet to see
is the annual Harvest Festival on the 23rd September being
held in St. Marys Church, Callington. Cat Ede
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In
this edition...
Editorial
Dear Newsletter
Guest Book
Parish
Hall News
Horticultural Show & Fun
Day
Notices
St Sampson's Church
Services
Golberdon
Christian Fellowship
Golberdon Play
Matters
Callington
Heritage Centre
Cornwall
Council - John Turner
Callington Young Farmers
Club
Welcome To Cornwall! |
Welcome
to Cornwall!
Some folks say that the 'Cornish Welcome' is not always as it should be, but
our experience has proved that this was certainly not the case when
two years ago, we moved to a quiet spot just outside Golberdon.

click to see larger picture
Our friends warned us of the perils of living in 'the middle of no-where',
but they didn't take the friendliness
and hospitality of the local
folks into account. Within two months we had chatted to most of our
neighbours and were made to feel totally at home. Sunday brings walkers
and horseriders past the house and a cheery 'Hello' from most of them
made us feel even more integrated into the community. Friends who
have subsequently visited us have certainly changed their minds as
they
were afforded the same wonderful welcome. We have so many clubs and
organisations that no-one needs to feel lonely or isolated here. The
only downside is not being able to be in two places at once.
Golberdon Village Hall hosts the Christmas
Carol service, which reminds us of
Christmases years ago, when the commercial side was not at the forefront.
On a different level, we have seen wildlife that we have
never seen before – goldfinches,
siskins, slow worms, jays, redwings, wild geese... to name but a few.
The pleasure of sitting in the garden,
surrounded by birdsong instead of the noise of cars is priceless.
We
never had
moles digging up our grass before but maybe that isn't classed as
a benefit of country life.
We learned that Ramson
flowers taste wonderful when mixed
into a salad and we certainly have no shortage of those. Elderflower
and Elderberry can easily be made into wine and is another perk of
living in the countryside.
The night sky is
another thing that we never take for granted. The streetlight outside our
previous home made seeing the
stars impossible. Even from the garden, where the constellations
were visible, the Milky Way never showed its amazing display. The phases
of the moon were never apparent and the only downside to that now
is
getting home in the evening means feeling our way to the front door.
Maybe the local bats could teach us a thing or two.
If you are visiting our lovely county with a view to moving
here, then we
would certainly recommend it. We would like to say a
big thank you to everyone who has made us welcome. Linda Scott
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