On Tuesday September 1st, the Mayor of Pendle, Councillor Nawaz Ahmed, called to look round St John's Church and chatted to Revd. Jane Bury (and one or two of the parishioners who were tidying up after the Scarecrow Festival) as part of his initiative to visit all places of worship in the borough. Above: Brian Sutcliffe, Mayor of Pendle, Robert Fergusson, Revd. Jane Bury and Ron Smith. HIGHAM S p o u t www.highamparishcouncil.com News and Views from the Village of Higham All family notices and articles are published in Spout free of charge Content is compiled and edited by Margaret Ingham who would be grateful for any stories, photos & snippets of news and of events which happen and are of interest to the whole village. [email protected] Tel. 771296 Additional contributors;- Terry Butterfield, John Hammond, Eileen Knight, Brian Sutcliffe, Ann Weekes. Stuart Mason/PendleMedia Higham Spout is paid for and distributed by Higham Parish Council. This issue and back copies are available online www.highamparishcouncil.com Graphic design and layout is done free of charge by James Starkie who is the Pendle Borough Councillor for Higham. [email protected]Next issue copy deadline January 15, 2016 Issue #24 Autumn 2015 Book - Higham in the Forest of Pendle – The First 500 Years Whilst researching his family tree, Kevin Hargreaves unearthed a substantial amount of detail about many of the people and the development of Higham which he has put in a book. Copies are available in Burnley and Nelson libraries and the Lancashire Archives, or he has 10 remaining copies for sale at £15 each. Mick Tetley has a copy if you want to see it for yourself. Kevin can be contacted on 07795605072 or [email protected] for more information. Almost a year ago the Parish Council decided that it would seek to improve the tidiness of the village. Chairman Mick Tetley wrote “For the past few years Higham has not entered the Best Kept Competition, but things are going to change! We are not having neighbouring villages stealing our thunder, so we are coming back and will enter again in 2015 - we had great success last time we entered.” The good news saw Higham beating Bilsborrow into second place, with Waddington behind in third place! Thanks to everyone for putting the work in! Blacko won Championship Class. Hamlet class;- Barley 2nd, Roughlee 4th, Spen Brook 5th, Newchurch 6th Higham Lancashire Now and Then Higham Village, Lancashire Save Higham St Johns Church Glorious weather, spectacular scenery, enthusiastic spectators and world famous cycling teams added up to a superb Stage 2 for the Tour of Britain. The school children, equipped with Aviva flags, practised their cheering on passing vehicles, who joined in the fun by hooting and waving back. The excitement and anticipation grew as police outriders swept past to create rolling road blocks, followed by the support cars bearing spare bike frames and tyres. The eventual winner, Petr Vakoc [below] and Sir Bradley Wiggins [left] rode past Higham to massive roars. HIGHAM SMALL VILLAGE CLASS WE’VE WON! HIGHAM GARDEN CLUB - meets on the second Tuesday of the month in the Village Hall at 8pm. Next meeting 13 October: Tilly Dagnall - Plants and preparing for Christmas. All welcome PENNINE HERB SOCIETY - meets last Tuesday of the month in the VH at 7.45pm. Next meeting Oct 27 All welcome. Contact for both: Eileen773258 TODDLER GROUP There are now 24 children on roll and a Toy Sale was held to raise money for the NSPCC. This friendly group meets every Tuesday morning in term time. Village Hall Bookings: Anne 773920 or Eileen 773258 DATES Higham Church Harvest Festival October 11 Remembrance Sunday November 8 Toy Service November 22 Advent Sunday November 29 Christmas Market December 6 Carol Service 20 December Christmas Eve Dec. 24, 11-30pm Christmas Day Seniors Christmas Party Tuesday December 8 at 6.30pm Huge thanks to the generosity of parishioners past and present and some benevolent grants received from various places, which will be acknowledged in due course. It was a hot day when Lizzie and Charlotte Saunders, Fran Gilbert (with other friends popping along) took advantage of the fact and sold iced tea and buns to passersby. They made £52 for the roof fund. Well done!! Phase 1 of the Church repair work has been completed and the scaffolding removed. Though this phase has seen many aspects of the work carried out, there is still work to be done on the other areas of the structure. Inside the building, timber replacements can be seen above the chancel arch, though you will note that the extensive re-plastering will form part of the later costs. The recent work has seen the building become watertight, and further damage to the internal structure can now be avoided. Work goes on to raise the further amounts needed to successfully repair the other parts of the structure that have evidence of severe weathering. Please continue to support the fundraising efforts, as there is still much work to be done. St. John’s HIGHAM Appeal ROOF
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On Tuesday September 1st, the Mayor of Pendle, Councillor NawazAhmed, called to look round St John's Church and chatted to Revd.Jane Bury (and one or two of the parishioners who were tidying upafter the Scarecrow Festival) as part of his initiative to visit all placesof worship in the borough. Above: Brian Sutcliffe, Mayor of Pendle,Robert Fergusson, Revd. Jane Bury and Ron Smith.
HIGHAMSpout
www.highamparishcouncil.com
News and Views from the Village of Higham
All familynoticesandarticlesarepublished inSpout freeofchargeContent is compiled and edited by Margaret Ingham who would
be grateful for any stories, photos & snippets of news and ofevents which happen and are of interest to the whole village.
[email protected] Tel. 771296Additional contributors;- Terry Butterfield, John Hammond, Eileen Knight, Brian
Sutcliffe, Ann Weekes. Stuart Mason/PendleMedia
Higham Spout is paid for and distributed by Higham ParishCouncil. This issue and back copies are available online
www.highamparishcouncil.comGraphic design and layout is done free of charge by
James Starkie who is the Pendle Borough Councillor forHigham. [email protected] issue copy deadline January 15, 2016
Issue #24Autumn 2015
Book - Higham in the Forest ofPendle – The First 500 Years
Whilst researching his family tree, Kevin Hargreavesunearthed a substantial amount of detail about many of thepeople and the development of Higham which he has put ina book. Copies are available in Burnley and Nelson librariesand the Lancashire Archives, or he has 10 remaining copiesfor sale at £15 each. Mick Tetley has a copy if you want tosee it for yourself. Kevin can be contacted on 07795605072or [email protected] for more information.
Almost a year ago the Parish Council decided that it would seek to improve thetidiness of the village. Chairman Mick Tetley wrote “For the past few yearsHigham has not entered the Best Kept Competition, but things are going to change!We are not having neighbouring villages stealing our thunder, so we are comingback and will enter again in 2015 - we had great success last time we entered.”The good news saw Higham beating Bilsborrow into second place, withWaddington behind in third place! Thanks to everyone for putting the work in!Blacko won Championship Class. Hamlet class;- Barley 2nd, Roughlee 4th, Spen Brook 5th, Newchurch 6th
Higham Lancashire Now and Then Higham Village, Lancashire Save Higham St Johns Church
Glorious weather, spectacular scenery, enthusiastic spectators and world famous cycling teams addedup to a superb Stage 2 for the Tour of Britain. The school children, equipped with Aviva flags,
practised their cheering on passing vehicles, who joined in the fun by hooting and waving back. The excitement and anticipation grew as police outriders swept past to create
rolling road blocks, followed by the support cars bearing spare bike frames and tyres. The eventual winner, Petr Vakoc [below] and Sir Bradley Wiggins [left] rode past Higham to massive roars.
HIGHAMSMALL VILLAGE CLASS
WE’VE WON!
HIGHAM GARDEN CLUB - meetson the second Tuesday of the month in
the Village Hall at 8pm.Next meeting 13 October: Tilly
Dagnall - Plants and preparing forChristmas. All welcome
PENNINE HERB SOCIETY - meetslast Tuesday of the month in the VH
at 7.45pm. Next meeting Oct 27All welcome. Contact for both:
Eileen773258
TODDLER GROUP There are now 24 children on roll anda Toy Sale was held to raise money forthe NSPCC. This friendly group meetsevery Tuesday morning in term time.
Village Hall Bookings: Anne 773920or Eileen 773258DATES
Higham Church Harvest Festival October 11
Remembrance Sunday November 8Toy Service November 22
Advent Sunday November 29Christmas Market December 6
Carol Service 20 December Christmas Eve Dec. 24, 11-30pm
Christmas Day
Seniors Christmas PartyTuesday December 8 at 6.30pm
Huge thanks to the generosity ofparishioners past and present andsome benevolent grants receivedfrom various places, which will beacknowledged in due course.
It was a hot day when Lizzie and CharlotteSaunders, Fran Gilbert (with other friendspopping along) took advantage of the factand sold iced tea and buns to passersby. Theymade £52 for the roof fund. Well done!!
Phase 1 of the Church repair work has been completed and the scaffolding removed. Though this phase has seen many aspectsof the work carried out, there is still work to be done on the other areas of the structure. Inside the building, timber replacementscan be seen above the chancel arch, though you will note that the extensive re-plastering will form part of the later costs. Therecent work has seen the building become watertight, and further damage to the internal structure can now be avoided. Workgoes on to raise the further amounts needed to successfully repair the other parts of the structure that have evidence of severeweathering. Please continue to support the fundraising efforts, as there is still much work to be done.
St. John’sHIGHAM
Appeal25 x £1000= £25,000in 2015
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St. John’sHIGHAM
AppealROOF
Congratulations! and best wishes to all these newlyweds [below l-r] l Helen Fowler and Daniel Norrisof Hambledon Terrace were married at St. Mary’s Church, Newchurch, followed by a reception at Coniston Hall, Skipton.l Vic Parker and Col Thomas-Balmbra from Chapel Street celebrated their marriage at The Alma Inn, Laneshawbridge.Opting to keep it local and using businesses from the village where available, Liv from LivFox photography captured the day.l Chris Richards, son of Ann and Stephen Richards of Moore Drive, married Kate Endersby at St. Anne’s Church, Fence.The reception was held at the Fence Gate Inn. Chris is a former pupil of Higham School. The couple first met aged 3 years onthe Higham Play Bus, and met again 5 years ago at the Fence Ball. Their honeymoon was in Devon and they live in Fence.
CommentHigham is a vibrant village. It has just been nominated the BestKept small village in the whole of Lancashire. Just a few weeksback some of the world’s top athletes cycled through our parish,we have a thriving church and community hall. We have anexcellent pub and we organise events and functions all yearround to entertain locals and visitors. We hold the impressiveExhibition and Scarecrow Festival annually. We publish thismagazine four times a year to keep residents informed.Most of the above rely on the goodwill of residents and many doget involved and we thank them for that - it’s part of why wechoose to live in a village. It’s called community. What that community needs now is a rounded person to fill thevacancy for a Parish Councillor. Someone who wants to givesomething back, someone who can get involved in thatcommunity and help the council to run the affairs of the village. In its midst, the current line-up has business people, working andretired, a senior teacher, a school governor and even a helicopterpilot! The new Councillor can be female or male, young or old,the only requirement is for a Higham resident who cares aboutHigham. We would ask anyone interested to attend the nextmeetings listed opposite. Please. HPC
Hi! I hope everyone has had a great summer, wehaven’t had brilliant weather but we did receivebrilliant news when we heard we had won the BestKept Small Village! I would like to thank all of youfor your efforts. We have obtained a further £3k grant from Pendle’sBarrowford and Western Parishes Committee for therefurbishment of the sheds on the playground and thiswork is due to start shortly. To the villagers who have shown concern over thereinstatement of the compound on the playground,we are not asleep as we are in contact with thedeveloper and hope this will be sorted sooner thanlater. So for now it’s bye from me. MT
Meetings: October 20, November 17, Dec. 15& January 19 at 7.30pm in the Village Hall.
175 farm vehicles of all ages, shapes and sizes tookto the roads around Pendle in memory of popularSabden Fold farmer, Andrew Nutter, who died ofcancer aged 39 in 2009. The event raised £6,500for the chemotherapy unit at the Royal BlackburnHospital and Rosemere Cancer Foundation. Theevent was organised by Andrew’s sister, LauraStanding and his best friend Phil Sanderson andeven a Minion was spotted riding on a trailer.
The Scarecrow Festival this year was another hugesuccess. There were 66 scarecrows around the villageand £5000 was raised to split between Village Halland Church. Also, £1200 was raised for the churchroof fund from the book sale, bottle tombola andLizzie Saunder’s sale of foam makers. The weatherwas very kind and the village was buzzing. The children also enjoyed the fairground on therecreation ground. Judging this year was done byAlan Armstrong from Brunlea Travel. The prizeswent to the Sharpes with their camel rides. ToNicola and Eddie for their Chinese dragon and the
Church Choir with their seaside scene. Public votewas for Leanne and Josh Hutchinson withPaddington Bear.Many congratulations to Barkerfield Close, renamedScarecrow Close for the weekend, where everyhousehold had produced an exhibit. The committeewant to thank everyone who made a scarecrow and allthose who helped in any way. The Scarecrow Ball wasalso enjoyed by all. Andy Powell provided the enter-tainment and the barbecue was excellent. Thecommittee presented several other prizes during theevening. The theme for next year is still to be decided.
Birthsl Terry & Michelle Robbins ofAcresbrook Road were thrilled tobecome grandparents. Their daughterClaire (former pupil of Higham school),husband Mark and baby Alice [right] livein Tottington l Parents Steven, Sarahand big brother Teddy Simpson of CloverCroft, welcomed the arrival of MilesElliot [2nd right] l Anne & Trevor Robinson are again
proud grandparents after their daughterSally and husband Bob O’Neil presentedthem with a grand-daughter, Calvi.l Louise Lewis & Terry Stratton ofHambledon Terrace are the proudparents of a son, Zak. l Jack & AnnePearson of Acresbrook Road have agrand-daughter, Darcy. l Harry & Theresa Wood of BarkerfieldClose are grandparents to Matilda.l Samantha & Howard Tomlinson ofClover Croft have a daughter, Emily.
l STONEY (formerly Norcross) (neeGraham) On Tuesday 25th August,Higham Church was filled with thefamily and friends of Pat Stoney, whodied peacefully in the Royal BlackburnHospital on August 17th, 2015, after acourageous fight against MSA. Pat andher husband John made their home onWesley Place. Our deepest condolences.
l On Sunday 5th July, William Eccles of Barkerfield Close was christened at Higham Church.The congregation of 120 people were also surprised with a secret wedding that had beenplanned by Chris and Louise, followed by a party in the Village Hall.
l Susan Hughes MBE Sue, who has dedicated more than halfa century to the voluntary sector, was honoured in the Queen’sbirthday list. She is still involved with the Council for VoluntaryService, Burnley Squadron ATC and a Patron of YoungLancashire. Former positions include four decades as a volunteermanager of Pendle CAB, 32 years as a magistrate and member ofthe Mental Health Tribunal, 18 years on the Probation Committeeand 10 years as Deputy Lieutenant of Lancashire! This was a well-deserved honour for Sue. Congratulations!
Special wedding anniversaries l Mick and Gillian Holden celebrated their Ruby Wedding by renewing their marriage vows at Newchurch Church. l Linda and Rob Barker of Copthurst Avenue celebrated their Golden Wedding on 14th
August with their family and friends. l Lynn and Doreen Whalley of Rake Top have also celebrated their Golden Wedding. Special birthday l Ron Bowler of Barkerfield Close, celebrated his 90th birthday recently.
