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Issue 37- May 2011

Royal Wedding Celebration&

Parish Plan Launch

Whitstone Whistler May 2011Page 2

The Whitstone WhistlerThe community magazine for Whitstone

The Whistler CommitteeChairman: Brian Martyn 01288 341376Secretary: Maggie Stanbury 01288 341332Treasurer/Advertising: Richard Horn 01288 341482Editor: Mike Sutton 01288 341687Publishing: Phil Tucker 01288 341617Delivery Co-ordinator: Pat Nasmyth 01288 341469Committee member: Daniel Cock 01288 341114

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Inside This Issue

Community News...................3

Councillor’s Report................12

Spring Update.....................13

Bus Timetable......................14 Who am I?...........................16

Diary................................18Mrs Trewhitless....................21

Whitstone Whippersnappers...25

All in a Day’s Work..................28

Festivity in a Time of Austerity..29

Letters...........................33

Useful Numbers...................35

This month’s cover picture is of the Royal Wedding Celebrations at the Parish Hall

Community News

Whitstone Parish CouncilThe Parish Council were pleased to welcome members of the parish to the annual open meeting, held on 13th April, where ideas were contributed and discussed for the Royal Wedding ‘high tea’. There was also a round up of the councils’ year given by the Chairman.Hopefully by the time you read this, you will have enjoyed the Parish Plan launch and ways to move things forward as well as the various activities held on the 29th April for the village Royal Wedding celebrations.

The next Parish Council meeting, our AGM, will be held at 8.15pm on Wednesday 11th May 2011 at St Anne’s Parish Hall, Whitstone. The agenda will be displayed ahead of the meeting on the Parish notice board, opposite the shop. If you would like to contact the Parish Council please use the drop-box in the village stores, this box is checked regularly before the agenda is prepared for Parish Council meetings.

Lucy Woods, Parish Clerk


Easter Egg Hunt

An egg-sellent time was had by all who attended the Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday 9th April, with lots of very egg-sited children eager to search outdoors and fi nd the most eggs. Whilst waiting, the children enjoyed colouring in pictures of eggs, getting ‘tattooed’ and having their faces painted. Lots of chocolatey Easter buns were munched (thankyou Jade!), whilst the grown-ups indulged in hot cross buns, tea and coffee.

The children searched for special laminated eggs which were egg-stremely well hidden and each being worth various points. Caramel eggs (kindly donated by Mole Valley) were handed out to each child as they awaited their points being counted. Lindt eggs (kindly donated by Waitrose) were on offer for 1st place winners with two categories, 0-5 year olds and 6-11 year olds. Runners up in 2nd and 3rd place also received chocolate eggs (kindly donated by Tesco and Morrisons supermarkets). This was followed by a raffl e of Easter eggs as there were quite a few donated to the Pre-School.

Winners0-5 yrs 6-11 yrs 1st place - Sean Cowling 1st Place - Sean Cowling2nd place - Tinkerbell Harrison 2nd place - Keith Cowling3rd place - Maddie Pooley 3rd place - Morgan MacDonald /Reef Harrison


The afternoon raised £75.10 for Acorns Pre-School.. A big thankyou to everyone who helped out on the day and to those who attended and supported our fund-raising. Also thankyou to Mr Woolner for permitting us to use the playground

Paper Request

If anybody has any old paper they would consider donating to the Pre-School for ‘painting paper’ please contact Cindy Drew on 0796302225. This could be old rolls of wallpaper (untreated please), old printing rolls, etc. Thankyou.

The Staff, Children and Committee are looking forward to a fun-fi lled, action-packed Summer Term and will keep you posted on future activities and fund-raising.


Methodist Chapel

Methodist Chapel ServicesServices at 11.00am unless stated otherwise.

May 1st Mr M Reeves

May 8th Mr Gilkinson

May 15th Service at North Tamerton 7.00pm Circuit service at Chilsworthy.

May 22nd Local Arrangement or Worship Leaders

May 29th Rev Beth McDowell (Sacrament)

Chapel News

The Easter weekend was celebrated with a concert on Good Friday given by The Windy Cross Singers. Rev Peter Bolt was the conductor of the 25 member choir who gave a varied programme of solos and choral singing portraying Holy Week from the Last Supper to the Resurrection a truly appropriate evening of songs and readings.The readings had been written by Rev David and compiled into a book which is being sold and the money donation to The Children’s Hospice. Rev David and Joan Bolt, who also led the concert, read 2 extracts one from the Palm Sunday donkey’s point of view and the other Mary at the foot of the cross, both extremely poignant. This was followed by a faith supper where people continued in fellowship together. The Chapel had been tastefully decorated with the windows having been done by the children from Smile Club depicting what Jesus gave us by dying on the cross.Easter Day was celebrated with a service led by Rev Beth McDowell where she spoke on the reason why Christians do not need physical proof of the resurrection as their faith is based on trust in God.The service concluded with members partaking in holy communion and everyone receiving an easter egg as a sign of the resurrection where new life emerges.A fi tting celebration for one the most important events in the Christian Calendar.

The Methodist Chapel are holding a Coffee morning on Saturday May 21st from 100 - 12.00. THere will be a cake stall,bric-a-brac and other stalls. please come along and join us.

Smile Club

Smile Club met on Wednesday 6th April and as this was the last session before Easter there were 3 different Easter based activities, one was making Easter cards with Mrs Freda Hockin who had kindly come along to share her ideas, stamps and pictures to make cards with an Easter message. The second activity was to make chocolate


Easter nests with cereals, chocolate and easter eggs! The third activity was to design and make an easter garden showing what Jesus gave us by dying on the cross. A very busy, meaningful and enjoyable session. May sessions are at the usual time 6.00 - 7.15pm on May4th and May 18th, children aged 5 and over are welcome to come and join us. Anyone who needs more information can contact Pam Colwill on 341279.

Coffee Club

Coffee Club welcomes you all to come along on the 1st Tuesday of each month between 10.00- 12.00 noon. THe children from Class 3 at the village Primary School come along to chat to everyone, an ideal opportunity to meet new people and integrate with the younger members of our community.

St. Anne’s Church

Services at St. Anne’s Church

Sun May 1st 11:15am Holy Communion Revd. James Rugg

Sun May 8th 6:30pm Evening Service Revd. James Rugg

Sun May15th 11:15am Holy Communion Revd. Rob Dickenson

Sun May 22nd 11:15am Morning Prayer Fr. Harold Tucker

Sun June 5th 11:15am Holy Communion Revd. Rob Dickenson

Whitstone Cancer Research UK

Ploughmans and Pudding at St Annes Hall on May 7th from 12.00 - 2.00pm. Cheese/Ham Ploughmans with side salad followed by a wide selection of Homemade puddings all for £5!! Please come along and support this worthwhile charity.

Gala Dinner and Dance at Holsworthy Memorial Hall on October 1st. Tickets are already available at £30. If there are any businesses or indi-viduals who feel they could sponsor a table for such a worthwhile cause please contact Dave on 341473.


Trevor Tucker is holding a

Coffee Morning and Plant Sale

Saturday May 14th

at 11 St. Anne’s Close, Whitstone

Addmission £1

Raffl e, Plant and other stands

Proceeds in aid of Cancer Research UK and Childrens Hospice South West

All are welcome

Plants will be on offer from May 14th until May 28th

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Whitstone Residents Association

Whitstone Residents Association will be holding their next meeting on: Wednesday 18 May 2011 at 7:00 pm at St Anne’s Village Hall Whitstone. We apologise for not holding a meeting in April but we decided to wait until after the Parish Councils AGM and the Launch of the Parish Plan, so that we could see what projects the Association can offer their help with. The Agenda for this meeting will be posted around the village before the meeting, as the full Agenda will not be formalised until after the launch of the Parish Plan. One of the subjects that will defi nitely be on the Agenda is ‘BULLYING’ within the village as this is now causing great concern to many parents. We will also have a few guest speakers to speak on topics that have been brought to our attention. We also take this opportunity of welcoming the newly formed Sanctuary House Residents Association and look forward to working with them and the Parish Council to make Whitstone an even better community to live in.

Ray FelthamFor and on Behalf of:Whitstone Residents Association


A Double Celebration

What a coincidence!. . . William and Kate chose the same day to get married as we had our Parish Plan Launch event! This happy conjunction enabled us to have a double celebration at St. Anne’s Parish Hall last Friday organised by the Parish Council and supported by the Whitstone Cancer Research UK committee who provided

a magnifi cent spread of food including a lovely ‘wedding cake’ (royal icing I presume) and ran the kitchen like clockwork. The weather was reasonably kind to us, which enabled a long table to be set up outside and for the children to run around and burn off a bit of energy.

As well as celebrating the royal wedding the Parish Plan was offi cially launched, with progress displayed in posters around the walls of the hall. Several of them with space for anyone to express their interest in the proposals by putting their name to them. I’m sure these ‘volunteers’ will be followed up soon by the Parish Plan Committee to see if we can get

some of the projects started.

The high tea was followed by a gift of royal wedding commemorative mugs to the children in the parish of primary school age and below, which were presented by Mr Tom Collins.


The grand fi nale was a Walking Village Treasure Hunt around the footpaths of Whitstone with questions to answer and clues to fi nd. The ‘largest dock leaf’ was hotly disputed but very ably adjudicated with extreme accuracy down to the precise millimetre, by Richard Horn, whose decision was fi nal!

And the winner is. . . Phyllis Walter, well done.

The event was very well attended and a good time had by all. I think we gave Kate and Wills a good send-off and of course wish them good luck for their future together.


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Councillor’s Report By Cllr. Phil Tucker

Calling all groups in Cornwall

As the lead member for the Communities leisure strategy I would like to highlight a great new website which exists simply to make it easier for people to join clubs. Good health is not just about exercise, and being part of a club with interests is extremely useful to reduce stress and worries. It helps meet new friends and also run into old friends. However an exercise club is useful to relieve aches and pains and keep supple. The web address is www. getactivecornwall.co.uk.

If you organise a group activity, whether fi tness orientated or simply just a computer or reading group then please log on and get it listed. The great thing is that later you can puts links back to your website or blog spot with information such as recent events and the like. If you are looking for something to do in your area or for the nearest locality for a particular group then you can enter your postcode and search. With time I hope all clubs and organisations will list their group and meeting times.

Whether pilates, yoga or a local reading club or sports club, please enter your club details.

If you have any problems with any issue then I will probably know who, locally, can give good advice. Please don’t hesitate to contact [email protected] or 01288 341617

New Bus Timetable

Greyhound have announced a new timetable for the 576 service through the village which starts on May 28th. The new timetable can be found overleaf on pages 14 and 15


SPRING UPDATEBy Fran Slade

What a wonderful start this year, March was delightful, dry and warm, and April was even better, I wonder if the old adage. . .

Oak before Ash, we are in for a splash - (very little rain)

Ash before Oak, we are in for a soak - (plenty of rain to come)

. . . is true this year, for the leaves on the Oak trees were out weeks before the Ash tree leaves, although I think it refers to the fact that if we have a dry Spring the Oak leaves appear fi rst and if we have a wet Spring the Ash leaves appear fi rst, we will have to wait and see.

There was plenty of early blossom on the Blackthorn bushes early in the season, and hopefully there will be a good crop of Sloes from these in the Autumn, and now the Hawthorns are in full bloom, often called May blossom as it is usually the month of May when the blossom fl owers, although this year the fl owers appeared mid way through April. These two plants have similar white blossom, but the Blackthorn has it’s blossom before it’s leaves, and the Hawthorn has the leaves fi rst and then the blossom appears.

The early and late Spring fl owers have all appeared at once, the Clematis, Magnolias and Camellias were late blooming, and the Tulips, Azaleas and Rhododendrons were early, so they all seemed to come at once, and it was very beautiful indeed.

The bird migration is well under way, and we have seen plenty of Hirundines, Sand and House Martins and Swallows, but not the Swifts, although they are one of the latest Spring arrivals, plenty of Sedge and Reed Warblers on Bude Marshes and an early family of Mallard Ducklings on Bude Canal. A rather special bird was the Red Kite which spent a couple of days circling over the marsh, and a couple of Avocets were seen passing Widmouth Bay. We have seen a pair of Fulmars nesting on the steep cliffs at Maer Cliffs every Spring time, these look very much like Gulls, but if you stop to watch you will notice that they seem to glide on straight wings and look like an aeroplane, whereas the gulls have arched wings. Now we eagerly await the sightings of fl edgling birds being fed by parents and hope that the tiny birds such as Wren and Gold Crest and also the Kingfi sher who would have had great diffi culty fi nding fi sh because of the frozen canal have managed to survive the very cold Winter that we had this year,

Fran tells me that the swifts have arrived during the last week! (Ed)




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Mrs TrewhitlessNotes from the Whitsend Kitchen

Cornish Cauli!

I just have to pick up one of those lovely caulifl owers whenever I am in the village shop. Apparently the caulifl ower is not such a fashionable vegetable nowadays, but I love its fl avour and the fact that this good-value food is grown in Cornwall. This month I’ve jotted down some of my ways of using, starting with something I guess all of you do, who are reading these pages.

Everyone in the Trewhitless household enjoys caulifl ower cheese, whether as an accompaniment for a roast or as a meal on its own, when I like to make a few additions. My favourite is to fry together some bacon pieces – smoked streaky works very well, together with some chopped mushrooms, which I add to the cooked, drained caulifl ower before pouring over the cheese sauce. Served with a jacket potato or crusty bread and a green salad, this makes a well balanced and easy to prepare supper.

I fi rst came across the basic recipe for this soup in my Covent Garden book (quite the best collection of soup recipes ever), where it uses Gorgonzola cheese.

Caulifl ower and Cheese Soup: Ingredients for 4 (or 2 generous) servings: 1 large onion, fi nely chopped 1 tbsp plain fl our ½ pt vegetable stock ½ pt milk 1 medium caulifl ower, cut into fl orets 4oz cheese (I do prefer blue cheese - Stilton, Gorgonzola, Cornish Blue, but a strong Cheddar will work too) cut into cubes 1 tsp wholegrain mustard freshly ground black pepper


Heat 2 tablespoons of oil in a pan and gently cook the onions until soft. Add the fl our and cook for a minute or so, stirring all the time. Gradually add the stock and milk, continuing to stir. Add the caulifl ower pieces, bring to the boil, then cover and simmer gently for about 20 minutes, when the caulifl ower should be tender. Remove from the heat. Stir in the cheese until it is melted.Blitz the mixture with the blender, reheat gently and add the pepper and mustard before serving.

Now this one I serve up at least once a fortnight!

Stir-fried vegetables with brown rice and cheese sauceIngredients for 4 servings:1 onion, roughly chopped2 or 3 sticks of celery, roughly chopped 2 or 3 large carrots, roughly chopped 1 caulifl ower broken into small fl orets ¼ to ½ white (or red cabbage sliced fairly thinly 1 large cup of long grain brown rice (to 8fl oz in measuring jug)16 fl oz vegetable stock¾ pint of cheese sauce (butter, fl our, milk and grated cheese)a pinch of cayenne pepper ½ tsp of mustard powder


Heat a couple of tablespoons of oil in a heavy pan, then add the onions, celery and carrots and let them cook for a while. Add the rice, stirring until it’s well coated with oil. After a couple of minutes or so, add the stock. Stir once and cover to simmer gently. Meanwhile make your cheese sauce in the normal way – I usually add a half-teaspoon of mustard powder and sometimes a pinch or more of cayenne pepper to the fl our to add some bite. Then in another pan, stir-fry the caulifl ower, adding the cabbage after a few minutes, until the pieces are browned at the edges and as crisp or as soft as you prefer them.When the rice mixture is cooked and the liquid absorbed, (usually after about 30 minutes), lay the stir-fried caulifl ower and cabbage on top, then pour over the cheese sauce and sprinkle some grated cheese and black pepper on top. Pop the pan under the grill to brown the topping.

Now it would be great, if anyone out there had a caulifl ower idea to share with the rest of us. Maybe all these bank holidays we’ve been having of late might have given you a free moment to jot something down to send to Mrs

Trewhitless via the Whistler e-mail address. Go on!


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WhippersnappersT h e W h i t s t o n e

At the end of term, we (Classes 2 and 3) welcomed Josh Greening to school who led a drumming workshop. Josh brought with him a variety of drums and we formed what might be described as a drum orchestra – or, more accurately perhaps, a percussion section. In the morning, we practised techniques for playing the drums and created a performance piece, which we played for parents at the end of school.

As well as the drumming performance, we had, earlier in the day, a competition the aim of which was to design a vehicle that could carry a Creme egg and travel the greatest distance. The category and overall winner covered a distance of over 675 centimetres. We had great fun designing and constructing our cars – and eating the eggs. Parents were both impressed and amused by the results of our efforts.


The school’s PTFA organized a successful fund-raising quiz evening in the parish hall, which raised over £200. The PTFA would like to thank everyone who supported the event. The PTFA donated some money towards the cost of outdoor signs that are not only useful resources but also brighten the school environment.

PC Nick Jessop, the recently appointed Neighbourhood Beat Manager for this area, visited the school to talk to the children about road safety. Nick was impressed by how much they knew about being safe and taking responsibility for their own and others’ safety.

Pupils in Key Stage 2 had the opportunity to go to Jacobstow School to join other schools in the area to take part in a tag rugby tournament. Our team, which included four pupils from Jacobstow, achieved fourth place.

Three pupils in Class 1, joining pupils from Morwenstow, Kilkhampton and Jacobstow, went to Marhamchurch School to take part in a science workshop. The children from each of the schools were asked to bring with them some soil from its grounds in which they were going to plant some seeds. The experiment they have to conduct is to see which soil produces


the best plants. To make the test a fair one, they have strict instructions to follow about where to put the pots and how much water the plants are to be given.

One of the projects that members of the Adventure Ecologists’ Club completed at the end of last term was designing and constructing a scale model of a boat powered by a solar panel. Fortunately, on the day when they tested their boats and invited parents to see their handiwork, the sun shone brightly.

The recent fi ne weather has encouraged pupils in Class 2 to get outside and get a head start over the other classes in

working on their garden plot. They have also planted the hanging baskets that were presented to the school by last year’s departing Year Sixes and added some plants to the beds and tubs by the sitting area at the front of the school.

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All in a Day’s WorkBy Brian Martyn

Its breakfast time, the telephone rings, a lorry load of fertiliser will be arriving in an hour. Fine. Catch up with some smaller jobs and feed the cows their main feed of silage after dinner. (It’s important to remember in this story that half an inch of rain fell the night before and the lorry driver was one and a half hours late). Soon it is one o’clock. With my meal almost fi nished the lorry driver knocks on the door and ask where I want it delivered. I quickly fi nd out that it is an articulated lorry, not what is required but the driver is very confi dent . . . .he is stuck within 60 seconds because of the rain. With 16 tons removed the driver is still quite confi dent he will be out soon . . . so he thinks, as he is only 6 feet away from the duck pond and sliding at every attempt. I hitch on the tractor and he is now 4 feet away from the pond but both lorry and tractor are now only 2 foot away from a 3 foot drop into water, mud and tadpoles. Time for another think!

Enlisting help from Jason next door with a 100hp 4wheel drive we are still not moving. The driver is not so confi dent now . . .and admits he is not used to delivering to farms and is starting to get concerned that the whole lot may turn over when Robert the Rep, (who sold me the fertiliser), and was passing, purely by chance?

We have another go by hitching up 2 tractors and dragging it out the way it came in. Jason leaves, I pick up 2 broken tow chains and continue the work which has been left undone. It is now 5 o’clock and the cows are sounding a bit hungry. The lorry is ready to leave but can’t move from my main yard which is not muddy, just wet. With the tractor hitched up again he is pulled out backwards into the lane where he has to reverse about 30 feet before he is fi nally gone.

Time for tea and biscuits. By nine o’clock the stock have been fed and the slurry scraped away. I decided not to milk the cows as no feeding means very little milk, the last time that happened was over 20 years ago.

That is the third lorry in twelve months that needed major help after getting stuck. A little more thought from the drivers would help, then I needn’t call Jason the Tractor Extractor.

p.s. Another caller that day was Phil Tucker with some magazines which needed delivering.

Whitstone Whistler May 2011 Page 29Whitstone Whistler

It was a time of austerity following long years of struggle and sacrifi ce; but the nation, and the values it stood for, had survived and, together with our allies, had achieved a hard-won victory over tyranny, injustice and oppression.

A Labour government had been unexpectedly elected in a landslide victory in the 1945 election promising reform and change – we had won the war, now let us win the peace and celebrate freedom, but ‘not the freedom to exploit others, to pay poor wages or push up prices for private profi t’.

However, the nation’s exertions in prosecuting the war had resulted in Britain’s pre-war industrial strength being weakened. Rationing, which had been introduced at the beginning of 1940 and included restrictions on sugar, bacon and butter, had continued after the end of the war; indeed, its restrictions had deepened and extended: barely three weeks after VE Day, cuts were made to the basic rations, and even bread, which had not been rationed during the war, was placed on ration in 1946 and remained there for two years; the scheme of rationing would last for another eight years, ending in the middle of 1954; what had been seen at its introduction as a measure of fairness and equity – in a we’re-all-in-this-together spirit – rationing came to represent, whether fairly or not, a failure of political and economic will on the part of the political classes. What could be done to dispel the despair and pessimism and lift the spirit of the people? What else but a party, a party on a national scale.

1851 had been the year of the Great Exhibition. 1951 was approaching and with it the centenary of the celebration of the apotheosis of Victorian, and Britain’s, cultural, industrial and scientifi c greatness. What an opportunity for the nation not only to look back to its glorious past but also to look to its future; and so the idea of a festival of Britain was conceived. Although the Festival of Britain was envisaged as a nationwide celebration (17,000 celebratory events took place in towns and villages across Britain), it was centred on London.

Like many towns and cities across the land, London bore the still-raw scars of the destruction that had rained down from the skies. The festival was largely the brainchild of Herbert Morrison, Labour MP for South Hackney and

Festivity in a Time of Austerity

By Ean Lawrence


a former leader of the London County Council, who promoted the festival as ‘the people giving themselves a pat on the back’. The area chosen for the location of the main elements of the festival was a 27 acre site of old Victorian industrial buildings and railway sidings on the south bank of the Thames at Lambeth.

The bomb-ravaged site was cleared and, in 1949, Prime Minister Clement Attlee laid the foundation stone on the site of the former Lion Brewery. New structures were built to house exhibitions exploring Britain’s landscape, character, industry and science: the Dome of Discovery, 93 feet high and with a diameter of 395 feet, described as ‘a squat, mushroomed-shaped mass of concrete and steel’, housed an exhibition that had as its theme discovery – the New World, the Polar regions, the Sea, the Sky and Outer Space; the Telekinema was a state-of-the-art, 400 seat cinema operated by the British Film Institute and had the technology to show fi lms and a large television screen - it was here that many Londoners saw their fi rst television pictures; the Royal Festival Hall, a 2,900 seat concert hall, is the only building on the site to have a life after the festival, being the centre of a group of arts-related buildings that, by the end of the century, included the National Theatre and the National Film Theatre; but the festival’s most striking construction was the Skylon, a breath-taking, iconic, futuristic-looking sculpture; the Skylon was supported by cables that gave the impression that it was fl oating above the ground, and this gave rise to the fashionable joke that the structure mirrored the British economy of the time in having no clear means of support.

In addition to a new wing at the Science Museum, a few minutes away by boat from the main festival site a fun-fair – including pleasure gardens, rides and open-air amusements – was established in Battersea Park. With the festival determinedly focused on the future, and with the aim of promoting

the feeling of recovery and regeneration, a large measure of attention was given to architecture.

In keeping with the principles of the festival, a young architect aged 38, Hugh Casson, was appointed Director of Architecture. As the commissioning architect for the festival, Casson, in turn, appointed only young architects. As a result of the wartime bombing and demographic changes (in the years 1945 – 1950, an ‘extra’ million babies were born above the expected rate (The Bulge), which imposed additional demands on school places, medical care and housing), there was a severe housing shortage. At Poplar, nearby the main festival site, was located the Exhibition of ‘Live’ Architecture. This was made up of the Building Research Pavilion, the Town Planning Pavilion and a building site showing houses in different stages of completion. The Lansbury Estate was to showcase the latest thinking about architecture,


planning and communities: as well as high-quality, multi-storey fl ats, it had a shopping precinct and a library; it was a kind of ‘model’ village. The ‘Festival Style’ much infl uenced architecture, interior design and topography, manifesting itself in the new towns and offi ce blocks of the Fifties. Many architects, especially those working for local government, copied its forms and materials with an evangelical zeal but with, perhaps, little consideration of their appearance and durability, which had some

undesirable consequences for social cohesion in later decades.

Although the main festival site was in London, the festival was a nationwide affair with exhibitions and events held in many towns and cities throughout Britain. As well as major exhibitions in Glasgow and Belfast, there were the

Land Travelling Exhibitions and the Sea Travelling Exhibitions that travelled from town to town and city to city around Britain, with the festival ship, HMS Campania, visiting Plymouth as one of its ports of call.

Despite it provoking controversy and being condemned as a waste of money (it cost £8 million, around £200 million in today’s terms), the Festival of Britain was opened by King George VI on 4th May 1951, its legacy, as described in the guide book to the festival, ‘…to leave behind not just a record of what we have thought of ourselves in the year 1951 but, in a fair community founded where once there was a slum, in an avenue of trees or in some work of art, a reminder of what we have done to write this single, adventurous year into our national and local history’. Always intended as a temporary exhibition, the festival ran for fi ve months, closing in September 1951 having brought ‘fun, fantasy and colour’ into a drab post-war Britain. In spite of the complaints and criticism, the festival proved to be a great success, with over 8 million visitors attracted to the main site; the popularity of the festival meant that it made a profi t.

In the October ballot of 1951, a Conservative government was elected to offi ce. The festival proving to be a far bigger success than its critics had prophesied, a piqued and disgruntled Churchill had the site cleared, viewing the festival as a piece of socialist propaganda and a celebration of the achievements of the Labour Party and its vision for a Socialist Britain; the incoming Prime Minister even balked at the erection of the Skylon elsewhere.

The 1950s were considered by some to be the best of times, by others to be the worst of times: some recalled full employment, steady material progress and a widely shared sense of certainty and continuity; others saw it as a time of stifl ing respectability, deference and conformity; but there was change on the horizon.

To many the halcyon days of the Fifties were coming under threat: the rapidly expanding wage packets of those who had left school and were working were raising concerns about the moral welfare of young people;


there was a moral panic over the antics of the ‘cosh boys’ and ‘Teddy boys’ who, in their actions, seemed to reveal a lack of parental control, and showed up the fallacies of a ‘liberal-minded’ psychology, that was producing a generation of delinquents; adult anxiety increased with the arrival of rock ‘n’ roll, a youth culture that was perceived to diminish self-discipline and increase the disrespect displayed by its adherents. Although Bill Haley, Elvis Presley and their like received only limited airplay on the BBC, the work and infl uence of rock ‘n’ roll artists were being widely disseminated through the big, coin-operated jukeboxes in the coffee bars of the Fifties.

The concerns of an older generation found a voice in an offi cial report about the young people who were conscripted into National Service. The report described many of the recruits ‘as having poor physique, poor education and lacking religious knowledge, self-discipline, initiative and a sense of responsibility’. Some observers saw the rise in post-war adolescent delinquency attributable to the disrupted and unnatural conditions of family life during World War II. Yet, at this time, discipline was invariably strict: boys were regularly caned and girls rapped on the knuckles in primary school. Few people disagreed with corporal punishment. A survey conducted in 1952 found that 90% of teachers wanted corporal punishment to be retained; more surprisingly, a similar percentage of schoolboys felt the same: in its execution, corporal punishment was brief and swift; the alternative punishments, such as the withdrawal of privileges, seemed to generate greater resentment.

The belief that the Fifties were more law-abiding times than now is not, according to statistics, a nostalgic delusion: crime declined markedly during the fi rst half of the Fifties, only beginning to rise, slowly, from 1955.

Many commentators have, in retrospect, viewed the much-heralded Festival of Britain not as a demonstration of the nation’s strength but as a product of post-war weakness, and of raising an unsteady hand pointing to further decline. At the beginning of 1952, the nation and the Commonwealth mourned the death of King George VI. However, in 1953, the mood of the nation received an injection of optimism with the coronation of a young queen Elizabeth; some inveterate optimists were even emboldened to express the hope that with Elizabeth’s accession and coronation it might be the start of a second Golden Elizabethan period.

So, sixty years on, where do we fi nd ourselves? We seem to be back where we started: we have received a fi rm shove in the back and been pushed across the threshold into another period of austerity – well, for most of us that is; but this time we don’t have the justifi cation of surviving a world

war with which to excuse ourselves.

Have any of our readers got fond memories of this time? We would be delighted to hear about them. (Ed)


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