Overleigh Roundabout October 2019

October 2019 Issue 147
Inside this month: Handbridge festival

Hough Green history, new rector
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Handbridge Church has a new Rector, Ric

Whaite who has been installed in the parish
in September.
Also in this month’s magazine we have
pictures from the Handbridge BBQ which
included surprise guests. There is news of
a new book about Hough Green, World War
One wreaths, Queen’s Park High School
update, local clubs and lots more, as well as
gardening and health & beauty. Publisher Talkabout Publishing Ltd
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Introducing....
Rector Ric
to Handbridge
It has been announced that
the new Rector of St Mary’s
Handbridge will be the Rev
Dr Richard (Ric) Whaite, until
recently the Chaplain to
University College, Durham.
By the time you read this, Ric
will have been Instituted and
Inducted into the parish by the
Bishop of Birkenhead and the
Archdeacon of Chester.
Ric will be joined by Anna and
their family in the parish.

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Wedding surprise at
Handbridge BBQ
Handbridge residents
enjoyed a fantastic
Saturday afternoon with
live music and a barbeque
at St Mary’s Centre on
Overleigh Road as local
independent business
Chester Beer & Wine
hosted their first event at
the venue.
The BBQ even turned into
an impromptu wedding
reception when local
couple Liam Nichols
O’Park and his new bride
Lauren arrived, having
had a low-key wedding
ceremony earlier.
“We popped to
Handbridge to celebrate
with a few drinks at a
local pub,” explained
Lauren, “but ended up
following the music to
the BBQ. What a great
event! Everyone was so
friendly and made us very
welcome, it made our
wedding extra special… We
even had our first dance
as a married couple while
everyone cheered and
clapped. Fabulous!”
As well as the BBQ, the
WI made tea and cakes,
Handbridge Residents
Association sold popcorn,
and local musicians entertained the crowds all day. There was plenty for the children too, as puppeteer
Cowboy Joe kept everyone entertained, along children’s stalls & activities. All in all it was hailed a
fantastic event for the local community and a firm date in the diary for next year!
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simple to grow. They thrive in a sunny soft. Dig a hole twice the size of the root-ball
border or in a pot on a balcony or patio, so and spread the roots as you refill the hole to the
there’s no excuse for not harvesting a crop base of the stem. Press the soil down with the
of your own. heel of your boot.
In addition, they are a generous plant. All Blueberries are sun-lovers and will fruit most
varieties produce pretty white flowers in the abundantly in full sun. They are better grown in
spring, followed by delicate green fruits which pairs to allow for cross-pollination. If you can
ripen to deep blue. If that wasn’t enough, the bear it, remove the flower buds in the first year
foliage then turns pink and peach for Autumn. after planting because it encourages strong stem
Blueberry bushes do require an acid soil to growth better fruiting for the following year.
thrive but if you don’t have that (I don’t!) then They don’t require any pruning for a few years.
use pots of well-drained ericaceous compost. After that thin overcrowded or unproductive
When you need to re-pot, choose a pot just a branches in winter after the leaves have fallen.
few inches larger because they fruit better in Remember blueberries fruit on branches
a snug pot! Ensure it has adequate drainage produced the previous year, so each year remove
holes and put some stones or crocks in the one or two of the oldest canes to make space for
bottom and keep it raised so it doesn’t become the more productive younger stems.
waterlogged. Water with rainwater from your In the winter move pots to a sheltered area or
water butt, especially if you live in a hardwater the shed for protection.
area. Make sure they are watered well while they NOTE – Our feathered friends love blueberries
become established and also while the fruit is as much as we do so make sure you protect you
ripening. Feeding with tomato food helps too. harvest with netting!
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- Chester Centre
Thursday 10th October there
will be a talk on the work of
the RNLI by Bryan Hughes
in the Burley Memorial Hall,
Waverton at 2.30pm. Cost
£3.00 to include tea and Handbridge WI
biscuits. Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 1st October, 7.30pm in
Thursday 17th October a St Mary’s Handbridge Centre, Overleigh Road, Handbridge.
coach trip for High Tea in Upton Flower Club will be showing us flower arranging
Lytham St. Annes followed and their displays will be raffled. Members will be able to
by a tour of the Blackpool make their own flower arrangements during the evening.
Illuminations, leaving Our November meeting will be on Tuesday 5th and this will
Chester Station at 13.30. be our Annual Meeting. Visitors welcome. First three visits
Cost £42 free. Please contact Maureen on 01244 671304 or email
New Members are always handbridgewi@gmail.com
welcome, for details of
membership please ring
Vanessa Stevens on 0151 336 Handbridge Flower Club
2156 or Carole Walker on Our next meeting will be on Thursday 17th October at
01928 723389. 1.45pm in St Mary’s Handbridge Centre. Our demonstrator
this month is Niamye Siange, from Manchester, who has
chosen ‘A Journey’s Tale’ as the title of her demonstration.
RSPB Chester This month we also have a members’ competition
Sat 12th Oct - Free Field entitled ‘Pumpkin Season’. After the demonstration, the
Trip - Crosby Coast and Lunt arrangements will be raffled. (Where else can you get a
Meadows: Coastal walk and beautiful arrangement for £1?) Then we have a chance
inland Lancashire Wildlife to chat over tea and biscuits and to look for bargains on
Trust lake, high tide 11.25am. our bric-a-brac and book stall. We warmly welcome new
Leader: Ian 01829 770974. members and visitors (free this month!}. For further details
Meet in Caldy Valley church ring 01244 683715.
car park. Contact leader 3+
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Wed 16th Oct - Indoor Voluntary active association of like-minded local
Meeting - Paradise of the people with a common interest in protecting and
Neotropics - Keith Offord enhancing the Meadows and conserving it for future
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Soroptimist International Chester
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A new book has been published which explores the role of
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‘The Green by the Hollow Way’ comes from the derivation
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bordering an old track or road. Owing to the passage
of carts, people and animals, these ancient tracks were
frequently lower than the surrounding land and were
known as hollow ways.
This second volume of the history of Hough Green builds
on the unexpected success of Hough Green Local History
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With much financial and other support from the Hough
Green Residents’ Association, the book, written by Ray
Carpenter, Pam Corkerton and Carol Farrell, was published
last month.
It describes key elements from a story covering the last
2,000 years or more, recording events both trivial and monumental. It provides a wealth of
images, many published here for the first time.
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Chester ghosts WW1
on film! wreaths
Lache Community
Centre is the venue will be
for a film night,
showing some of removed
Chester’s historic and Last year to mark the
haunted places. centenary of the end
People are of World War One,
encouraged to bring Handbridge WI made
along interesting 769 poppies on 42
objects to show and tell at the event wreaths which were
on Friday 4th October, 7.30pm, at the placed on St Mary’s
Hawthorn Road venue. Church railings. A
Please bring along your photos, total of 40 wreaths
souvenirs, keepsakes, old newspapers, have been on the
household items, curiosities, anything graves of soldiers in
that tells a story about family or local the cemetery. During
history. Tickets on the door £1. Contact November the wreaths
Linda Shuttleworth, from the organisers will be taken off the
Lache and Westminster Park Local graves and reused for
History Group on 01244 679791. Christmas wreaths

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Beware bus lane fines
Drivers using Wrexham Road and Hough Green had better beware – the Bus Lane Big Brother is
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Bus lane fines have caused consternation across the country with many drivers issued with
hefty fines after being caught out through poor signage. It is also very annoying that cars can be
queuing for ages yet the bus lane is completely empty.
Cheshire West and Chester Council has introduced Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR)
cameras in the bus lanes on both roads and has begun to issue fines.
The cameras were activated last month to discourage motorists who ignore traffic regulations
and drive in bus lanes.
For the first four weeks,
drivers caught driving
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warning letter only, to
help educate and raise
awareness.
Cllr Karen Shore said: “The
vast majority of motorists
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there is an irresponsible
minority who drive in bus
lanes, slowing up buses
and disrupting other road
users.
“The bus lane cameras
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highway network, and
encourage more people
to cycle and use public
transport, as journey times
for public transport users
will be improved.”
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lanes can also be used by
taxis, private hire vehicles,
motorcycles and pedal
cycles. All lanes are clearly
signed to indicate which
vehicles are permitted in
each case.”
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The Screen Time Debate
How much is too much?
For many parents battles over screen time to distract teens or younger children from
and devices have become a frustrating part uncomfortable emotions, in the same way we
of family life. So how much screen time is wouldn’t encourage the use junk food to soothe
too much for kids? Well, it’s complicated. them.
For some years parents have been advised Interestingly a recent study of 20,000 parents
to limit media consumption, but new published by the Oxford Internet Institute
research suggests it’s the quality not the and Cardiff University determined that there
quantity that matters. was no correlation between limiting device use
Until quite recently parenting advice centred and children’s wellbeing. Another study by the
around the concept of screen time quotas with University of Michigan on children aged four
a Goldilocks-style sweet spot of two or so hours to 11 similarly found that it was how children
of screens a day, beyond which media use use devices, not how much time they spend
could become harmful. But now the advice is on them, which is the strongest predictor of
more conflicting. There seems to be a general emotional or social problems connected with
consensus that under the age of six there screen addiction.
should be no more than one hour of “high- Although specific screen time limits are out
quality programming” per day, but for older of date, there is evidence that excessive use
kids the advice is simply to “place consistent has negative impacts, affecting sleep, health
limits on the time spent using media” and to and mood. Screen time, in and of itself, is not
designate some screen-free time as a family. harmful – but reasonable restrictions vary
Unfortunately it’s not clear whether “consistent greatly, depending on your child’s behaviour
limits” means four hours playing a video game and personality. A useful strategy for parents is
on a Sunday every week, or whether three to ensure that what they’re watching, playing
20-minute sessions on an iPad is preferable to and reading is high-quality, age-appropriate
one hour-long session. and safe – and to join in wherever possible.
What is clear is that for young children one of Balancing the online and offline world seems
the most important things is whether parents to be key, and that may vary greatly from family
and kids play, watch or browse together. to family. Research shows that not having
The nature of screen time matters. Passive access to the digital world has a negative
TV is potentially more harmful than game- impact on kids too – so it’s all about finding the
playing, socialising, or using creative apps. right amount for your family, with an holistic
Psychologists are likening our media diets to approach.
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Ignore them – Ignore all attempts to Tweet, email, text or otherwise attract your attention.
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you won’t be tempted to check on them every time you log-on.
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We think of the Halloween pumpkin and cruel and had led a miserable, worthless
lantern as an American invention but in life he could not let him enter Heaven. Stingy
fact it was the Irish who took the tradition Jack then went down to Hell. The Devil smiled
of carving pumpkins to America, except the mischievously and said he was bound by the
original Jack O’ Lantern was not a pumpkin promise he’d made in the apple tree and would
because they didn’t exist in Ireland. Celtic not allow him to enter Hell. Stingy Jack became
cultures actually carved turnips on All really scared. He had nowhere to go and was
Hallows’ Eve and placed a glowing piece of doomed to wander about forever in the dark
coal or a candle in them, to ward off evil Netherworld between heaven and hell. He
spirits. protested to the Devil that there was no light,
There are many stories behind these turnip so the Devil tossed him a piece of coal from the
lanterns but one of the most popular comes flames of Hell. Jack always carried a turnip with
from The Tale of Stingy Jack. him because it was one of his favourite foods.
He hollowed out the turnip and placed the
Stingy Jack was a grumpy old drunkard who
glowing coal the Devil had given him inside.
liked to play malicious tricks on just about
From that day onward, Stingy Jack roamed the
everyone including his family, friends and his
earth without a resting place, lighting his way
mother. He was proud of his antics and boasted
as he went with his ‘Jack O’ Lantern’.
that he could trick the Devil himself. The Devil
heard about Jack and paid him a visit. Jack was On all Hallows’ eve, it became the tradition
as good as his word and tricked the Devil into for Irish people to hollow out Turnips, swedes,
climbing up an apple tree. Once the Devil was potatoes and beets. They placed a little light
in the tree, Stingy Jack hurriedly placed crosses in them to ward off evil spirits and keep Stingy
around the base of its trunk. The Devil couldn’t Jack away. These were the original Jack O’
touch the crosses, so he was stuck in the tree. Lanterns. In the 1800’s waves of Irish people
Stingy Jack made the Devil promise him not travelled to America in search of better lives.
to take his soul when he died. Reluctantly the These Irish immigrants quickly discovered that
Devil agreed, and Stingy Jack removed the American Pumpkins were bigger and much
crosses, and allowed the Devil to climb back easier to carve, so they began to use pumpkins
down. for Jack O’ Lanterns. Eventually this new
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Just a note to acknowledge the good work Anne Marie Powell of the CWAC ASSIST team and
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following representations made by neighbours.
Since 2000 I have pressed for parking on one side of this road on a rotational basis so that
this bit of road might be regularly cleaned rather than by these rare one-off efforts following
which the drains and gutters soon get blocked and filled with litter again with the local authority
workforce regularly unable to clean them to any effect.
Much of the day in day out parking here is by none residents and I doubt taking this action would
disadvantage established owner occupier residents; and indeed would be of benefit to them as
well as those of us who daily have to walk along what is this filthy street often blocked by cars
parked up on the pavements both sides of this road.
I have noted that local councillors seem to grab the chance of a photo opportunity, irrespective as
to whether or not they had anything to do with the clean-up action taken, when such as this rare
occasional clean up takes place but without prompting the necessary action to change this bad
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1kg ripe tomatoes, peeled and
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750g cooking apple, peeled, cored Place the tray of clean, wet jars and lids into a preheated oven at 160-
and chopped 180ºC for about 15 mins.
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250g onion, finely chopped should be hot. Ladle the hot preserve into a heatproof jug to make it
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250g raisins
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Westminster Park Shops - 10.30am - 11.45am These surgeries are an
Handbridge Old Dee Bridge - 12noon - 1pm opportunity for residents to
come and raise any council or
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Visit: cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk
WESTMINSTER PARK
Westminster Park Residents Association Scouting
Pauline Brown email chair@wp-ra-org.uk 18th Chester Scout Group Leader/Contact Information
www.wp-ra.org.uk Group Scout Leader: Susan Jones 675538 H
Westminster Park Community Centre Cubs (Monday): Simon Duggan 678659
Five Ashes Road, Westminster Park Beavers (Wednesday): Jane Shortall 682136
671243 (during bar hours) Scouts (Wednesday): Michael Glass 6766637
Cubs (Thursday): Christine Owens 676691
Friends of Westminster Park Scouts (Friday): Terry Coe 676734
Norman Trott, 683540 www.westminsterpark.org.uk
Clubs & organisations Guiding
Belgrave Badminton Club Rainbows: Sue Fryer 01244 679945
Mondays 8-10pm at Queen’s Park High School Guides: Sue Fryer 01244 679945
New members always welcome.
www.badmintoninchester.co.uk
Belgrave Pre-School 07761 816891 SALTNEY
Bridge Club Nick Ryan, 675923
Cricket Robert Aldridge 07759 695084 St. Mark’s Church Lache and Saltney
Croquet John Dawson 675929 Sunday Services
Evergreens Over 60s Club:Sandra Magilton 677373 9am Holy Communion; 11am Family Service;
6.30pm Contemporary Praise
Healthy Walking Group Fred Whiteley 675085 Messy Church every first Thursday of the Month
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Linda Shuttleworth, 679791 Thursdays: A Different Taste Community Cafe
National Women’s Register: Christine Westcott 675431 10.30am - 1.30pm C
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LACHE PARK
Community Safety Wardens Wednesday Centre is available for meetings,
Drop in surgery at Lache Mixed exercise class 9.15-10.15am functions and parties. Catering
Community Centre every Thursday Drop In Tea, Toast and Talk 10- and bar are also available. For
12.30-2pm. 11.30am information please contact Dennis
Computer drop in (Learning Centre) Smale (centre manager) on 674
Weekly Community Centre 1-3pm 887.
Timetable Cheer Leaders 4.30-7.30pm To book the Community Learning
Monday Yoga 6.30-8pm Centre for training please contact
Ninjitsu 7-9pm Liz Holding (Lache Park Ltd) at
LACHE
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Club 10-2pm
Computer Class (Learning Centre)
Thursday Hawthorn House on 675 818.
Vegout@lache (fruit and veg bags) Also at the Learning Centre are
1-3pm
10-12pm a range of courses provided by
Credit Union 2.30-3.30pm
Lunches 11.30am-1pm (costs £4 for West Cheshire College. For details
Healthy Hearts (Exercise Class)
3 courses) contact Chris on 07887557864 or
6.15-7.30pm
Tea Dance 1.30-4pm (fortnightly) 373462.
Bingo 7.30-9.30pm
Credit Union 7-8pm
Tuesday Lache and Handbridge Children’s
Saturday
Pilates 1.30-2.30pm and Young People’s Centre
Junior Club (6-13 year olds) 10-
Morris Dancing 5.30-7.30pm
12pm Tel: 977791
Room hire at Lache Community
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HANDBRIDGE Cllr Neil Sullivan (Con, Handbridge Pk)
51 Lache Lane Chester
Belgrave Badminton Club Friends of Edgar’s Field Tel 671099 / 07709 376876
The club meets on Monday Voluntary group who look Razia Daniels (Con, Handbridge Pk)
evenings from 8 - 10 p.m. in the after Edgar’s Field Park, 11 The Shipgate, Chester. Tel 312392
Queens Park High School, from Handbridge. Tel Steve Rogers Cllr Jane Mercer
Sept to spring. New members, on 629189 Lache Ward Tel 07867 805361
improvers and advanced are very Handbridge Community
welcome to join. Contact Sarah Association
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www.badmintoninchester.co.uk Tuesday of each month at
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Handbridge Shotokan Karate
Centre. All welcome. The Queens Park Residents Association
www.hskc.org.uk
facebook page is Handbridge Email: qprachester@btinternet.com or
St Mary’s Community Nursery
Community Association - HCA. contact Helen on 07971 426589
Old Wrexham Road,
Handbridge.Tel 981222 Handbridge WI
First Tuesday in every month at Chester
Riverside
HOUGH GREEN 7.30pm St. Mary’s Handbridge
Rotary Club
Centre. Tel 671304.
Hough Green Residents’ Association. Brownies and Guides The Club meets
Contact Trevor Farrell on 674955. Brownies: Krystina Littlehales on Wednesday
07860 845402 evenings
Guides: Helen Williams 7-8pm at The
CURZON PARK 07951 959007 Handbridge Pub.
Rainbows New members or
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Grace Hamilton 07943811854
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