Social Snapshots 2001-2022 inc

2022. Tuesday 6th September. Liz Truss appointed Prime Minister by Queen Elizabeth. Voted in by the Conservative Party, following the resignation of Boris Johnston.

2022. Thursday 8th September. Queen Elizabeth II died at 4.30 pm on Thursday 8th September 2022 at Balmoral, Scotland, aged 96. She came to the throne in 1952, aged 25, reigning for 70 years. Prince Charles is now King Charles III.

2022. 25th October. Liz Truss resigned as Prime Minister on her 50th day in office.

2021. Lace Makers on T V Countryfile. click Lace Making for reports and photos of hand made lace.

2021 Community Planning Group ends. Report by Paul Rogerson, treasurer. As you may be aware, Lacey Green Community Stores closed on Christmas Eve 2021, having operated at the Village Hall for over 12 years. As a consequence, the work of the Lacey Green Parish Community Planning Group has come to an end. The Group was formed in 2005 to enable local people to work with local councils to provide and support local community initiatives. click 2021 Community Planning Group Ends for more details of their work. click Community Stores for details of this shop and photos.

2021. Ted Janes died in December 2021. He had been Chairman of the Parish Council and the Village Hall Committee for many years. He was a J.P. He ran a youth club. He was the inspiration of Hallmark and Village Day. The Happy Wanderers Walking Club, The Horticultural Society and many other Village Hall regular events were established on his watch. Go to Ted & Jean Janes for their full history.

2021 Support during Covid Lockdown. report for Loosley Row Support Group by Louisa Spearing. As we emerge from a long dark winter of lockdowns and restrictions, it is uplifting to be able to look forward to the blossoming of old freedoms. Also to a general lightening of the load of feelings of isolation and anxiety that many have been battling against. As a community Lacey Green, Loosley Row and the environs have worked together on various initiatives over the last year.

We have created support groups to provide help to those who are vulnerable or isolating. We have created a magnificent sewing cartel ‘For the Love of Scrubs’ that at one point seemed to provide most of the PPE to local care homes and hospitals! We have supported ‘Risborough Baskets’ by organising the delivery of produce to our villages. click 2021 Loosley Row Support Group for more details and photos.

2018. July 2018 by The Local History Group. For our exhibition in November we plan to celebrate not only the end of WW1 but also the centenary of the Royal Air Force, formed from the Royal Flying Corps in 1918. Several men who trained in those early days had homes here during WW2, by then high ranking officers.

Please get in touch if you can tell us more or knew any of the families personally, if you know of others or have photos we could copy. Anyone in the History Group would be pleased to hear from you or ring Rosemary Mortham on 01844 345863

A full history of each will be given at the exhibition, giving photographs, details of their lifetime careers, their honours and awards, families and their association here with other details such as the planes they flew.

Also included will be the history of Bomber Command together with the controversy it provoked.

And the Suffragettes. see 1913 Saunderton Railway Station Gutted by Fire

The celebration parade of the schoolchildren will be reported. see 1918 School Armistice Celebrations

The influenza pandemic of 1919 will be mentioned. see 1919 Influenza Pandemic

2018. Brian Panter died in 2018. The following is an extract from Brian's obituary. (Click Brian & Nell Panter for Brians full life story with photos.)

---In 2017 at the age of 93, he was asked to speak The Immortal Words at 11am on Remembrance Sunday in the library at Princes Risborough, where he spent many hours. I was visiting and helped him put on his medals and walk round the corner. There was a small group of friends there, some librarians and a few members of the public, and he spoke the words with resonance and great depth. 'They Shall not grow old as we who are left grow old' had a special significance to him. So many of his peers and the women he loved were dead, he was finding old age intolerable and knew he was approaching the end his life. I felt very proud of him. It was the last remembrance Sunday he spoke at. By the following year his stroke had taken away his power of speech and we'd lost access to his memories and the connection to the act of remembrance.

2015 Lacey Green School Outdoor Club. Richard West and his daughter Charlotte who showed us round Stocken Farm. Everyone loved it, and he repeated it for 30 more of us a week later. click 2015 School Outdoor Club for the full story of all visits.

Next it was Chris Dignan’s turn. He greatly intrigued the kids with his statistics about space. click 2015 School Outdoor Club for his fascinating facts.

Then Tracey and lan Chitson, met us in The Hampden Arms garden and we went to find sticks....the woods were alive with the sounds of ...stick finding! Then with a bit of magical help we turned them into wands. Most recently, Paul Green from the Risborough Countryside Group gave us a truly fascinating prehistory tour of Whiteleaf Hill, and let the kids handle Roman things he had excavated. click 2015 School Outdoor Club for more details.

2015. report by Rosemary Mortham. The Local History Group and the Women's Institute arranged what can only be described as a most amazing exhibition involving a breath taking display of wedding dresses, floral displays and other exhibits. click 2015 Exhibition of Wedding Dresses for full report and photos.

2014. Connie Baker, born in 1908, died 23rd January 2014. click Fred & Connie Baker for her full life story and photos.

2014. Notice in Hallmark for the The Local History Group. Village History Group Event to be held at St John's Church from Sat 8th to Tues 11th November 2014

To Commemorate the Outbreak of World War One and to remember those who died and show its effect on our local villages.

Sat 8th.2.00 - 5.00pm History Exhibition open. Sat 8th. Nov. 7.30 for 8pm. Concert by Lacey Green Singers

Sun 9th Nov 10.00 am. Special Remembrance Service and 2 minutes silence. Placing of crosses in memory of each local serviceman killed.

Sun 9th Nov 2.00 - 5.00 pm History Exhibition Open (Teas served). Lecture by Rev. Arthur Taylor on Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry at 3.00 pm Cost £5. Also adult church choir singing period songs and hymns. Poetry readings including works by Rupert Brooke.

Mon 10th Nov. 7.00 pm Junior Choir Concert for Peace followed by refreshments, and History Exhibition. cost £5

Tues 11 Nov 11.00 am Special School Service in church to remember the 11th day of the 11th month, when the Armistice was signed. Also small exhibition suitable for children

2013 Lacey Green Windmill has been awarded an Engineering Heritage Award by the Institution of mechanical Engineers. click 2013 Windmill Award for more details.

click 2011 Home of Rest for Horses Updated for this article which describes the complete updating of the Home of Rest for Horses at Speen Farm. Several articles were already printed in Hallmark about the Home of Rest for Horses created in 1971. Click the following for more :- Home of Rest for Horses by Walter Stein.

1982 Horses killed in I.R.A. Bombing. Copy of letter in The Horses Trust magazine. 1984 Sefton comes to Lacey Green (biography)

1986 Celebrating the Centenary of the First Home of Rest for Horses. by Miles Marshall.

2011. The Local History Group staged an exhibiton at Lacey Green School on Local History. click 2011 Local History Exhibition for report and photos.

2009. Short Mat Bowls Club. Our first game was in July 2009. click Short Mat Bowls Club for the set up and progess of this club.

We shortly had over 20 members who have then and thereafter all contributed £20 to join and £2 (£3 from 2024) to play.

2008. Report by John Titchen – Lead Instructor DART. In May 2008 a new self-defence club started at Lacey Green School on Monday evenings.

click 2008 Self Defence (DART) for full explaination of DART and photos taken at the club.

2008. Leigh Axe helped start and has run, the village website, laceygreen.com, ever since. click Leigh & Yvonne Axe for more about Leigh.

2008 The Local History Group was set up in 2008. Norman Tyler recommended Leigh Axe to be just the man needed to set up a website for them. He did this by making it part of the Lacey Green website.and still deals with anything that comes in to it, even though The Local History Group no longer meets. click The Local History Group for more about this organisation also click Leigh & Yvonne Axe for more about Leigh, and Norman & Bette Tyler for more about Norman.

.2004. The Last Village Day. Started in 1975. click 2004 Village Day Olympiad for all the details and pictures. After 2004 Road Closure for procession refused.

2004. click 2004 Dennis Syrett President of ROI as Pat Syrett tells of Dennis' life and his appointment as President of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters.

2003. The first St John's P A Fund Run (....or even walk!) 11.30am, Sunday 28th September 2003. Sponsored by Woodbyne Fitness Clinic

The course: Through Lacey Green Village, from St John's School playing field to The Pink and Lily and back. Length: Approx. 5 km All ages welcome

click 2003 St John's P A Fund Run for further details of fitness testing, refreshments, BBQ, licensed bar, prizes, and entry details.

. . . . . If you can: run it. . . . . If you can't: walk it. . . . . If you really can't: support it!

2002. Lacey Green & Hambe Twinning Association Closed. The Twining ceremony took place in Hambe on 6th July 1981. click The Twinning Association for more.

2002, October. report by Joan West for Stocken Farm. Cherry and Wayne arrived safely having escaped from Zimbabwe with their three children.

They arrived with only the personal luggage allowed on the plane. The contents of their home being shipped via South Africa and yet to come.

They arrived at Stocken Cottage no 3, Kiln Lane to be overwhelmed by the generous practical welcome extended to them by the village, piled on their doorstep. Also see 2002 Stocken Farm New Relief Herdsman Wanted.

2002, October. PS.to above. Added later by me, Joan. I first wrote on Stocken Farm for Hallmark in 1976. With never any comments nor complaints I did wonder sometimes if they were read. When the community responded by giving such a generous heart-warming welcome to Wayne and Cherry I was so grateful. It was extraordinary. Thank you so much, whoever you were. And the fact that you read my article? - Yes, that is also very nice to know.

2001. Aylesbury Vale Seido Karate first opened its doors to adults at the Lacey Green Village Hall in January 2001. By 2009 it was an established karate club for adults and children training every Monday evening. For details and photos click 2001 Karate in Village Hall.

2001. click 2001 Methodist Church Closes for details. On 23^rd September 2001, just 146 years to the day of the opening of the church, presentations were made to Mrs. Winifred Carter (steward & Church secretary) and Mrs. Vera May, (treasurer) in appreciation of their work for the church.