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Chipko was built on the site of [[The Home Guard]] hut at [[Parslows Hillock]] in the 2nd world war.
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[[File:The Hut on Pink Hill Plan.jpg|thumb|Plan 1943 'The Hut', later site of 'Chipko' ]]
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research by [[Joan West]].  Information taken from the Deeds, lent to me by Andrew Clark.  "Much appreciated, thank you Andrew".    A copy of which is archived in Lacey Green [[Village Hall]].
  
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It became the home of [[Andrew & Ann Noel Clark]]
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click [[Andrew & Ann Noel Clark]] for their life history. 
  
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'''Report in Hallmark May 2007'''   '''Monstrous Performances = A Monstrous Total'''
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click [[Charity performances at Chipko]] for reports on '<nowiki/>'''Is it a Joke, or Serious?'<nowiki/>''', '<nowiki/>'''The Dove'<nowiki/>''', & ''''W5 Wind Quartet Concert'.''' 
  
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Question: what have an unseen monstrous dragon, the brutal realities of political torture, two unsavoury bag-ladies and the lighter side of industrial unrest got to do with the worldwide fight to uphold human rights? Answer: the latest successful Theatre in the Home performance by Lacey Green Productions, together with The Command Performers.
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click [[Clark]] for others in this family
  
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Entitled, is it a Joke, or Serious?, the production was run over three performances on the weekend 2nd-4th February at Chipko, home to Andrew and Ann Noel Clark. The performances were free of charge, as the intention was to raise money for Amnesty International, an organisation which Andrew has been involved with for some time now.
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click [[Families]] for other local families
  
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Not many folk would be brave enough to open their doors to the assorted gang of players who formed the cast for the series of plays that made up the show, let alone be prepared to have their home converted into a miniature theatre. Many thanks to the Clarks for their generous hospitality, and for supplying two of the female members of the cast, as both Ann Noel and daughter Zettie were roped-in to tread the boards. Monsters, many of them human, featured heavily in the sketches and short plays — some of them leavened by a good dose of humour and silliness, others not so to deliberately shocking effect. There were some sights for sore eyes too, not least Ann Noel's housemaid’s overall and turban, Peter Brookhouse parading in the planet's most hideous waistcoat, and the unsuccessful introduction of the tea cosy as an item of fashion head wear...  (click [[Peter & Val Brookhouse]] for more about Peter))
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On the site of Chipko had been a small house called 'The Hut'.   It had no facilities.  
  
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[[Lacey Green Productions]] stalwart Brian Panter put in what he claims will be his last performance (again!), but we suspect that the right role might tempt him to face the limelight again.  (click [[Brian & Nell Panter]] for more about Brian)
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'''2nd November 1943 Conveyance'''.  [[Arnold & Zettie Clark]] bought 'The Hut' from Marjorie Vernon.  They extended it with a lavatory and a kitchen.
  
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Those who attended the Saturday performance were given an outdoor encore, courtesy of the eclipsed moon, clearly visible above the Bucks tree line.
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In WW2 it was used as a base for [[The Home Guard]], commanded by Col. Fairbrother, landlord of [[The Pink and Lily]].
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[[File:Reservoir Site Sale of Land Map.jpg|thumb|Extra land sold to A Clark Esq. 17th February 1998.  see details beiow.]]
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'''30 August 1975 Deed of Gift'''.  Arnold and Zettee, now living in Great Missenden gave it to their son Andrew.  The following extract is from the Deeds.  
  
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Each audience had the dubious post-show experience of mixing with the cast and crew, an encounter perhaps eased by the availability of wine and nibbles.
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" The Grantors agreed with the Grantee that they would give the said property to the Grantee in consideration of his intended marriage.  The said marriage was solomnised on the 4th May 1975.  
  
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The event exceeded our expectations when a grand sum of bang-on £800 was collected for Amnesty’s important work in championing the victims of oppression across the globe.
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As he was in India it was let to John and Sue Claydon about 1976/77, then called [[Bethany Cottage]]. Next it was let to an Irish man, whom Andrew had met in India called Phillip Burn whose wife was Indian.  She was not happy and although ok it was condemned by the Council.
  
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It was pulled down in 1982 and Chipko was built on the site containing 1 acre 16 perches
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[[File:Pink Hill Reservoir.jpg|thumb|Rectangular piece of woodland purchased in 1984 adjacent to Bethany Cottage, later "Chipko"]]
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B Robinson tells us in his obituary of Andrew "He returned home in 1983, now nearly 40, because he had been asked to become the General Secretary of Quaker Peace and Service. He moved into Chipko at Parslow’s Hillock, a house spectacularly located on the Chiltern escarpment that he designed to be sustainably powered by wood logged from his land. Andrew’s need for physical activity and danger would in future be satisfied by a chainsaw, a quad bike and a wood-burning stove".
  
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'''Hallmark November 2011.  The Dove.  reporting Peter Brookhouse''' 
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Andrew and Ann Noel moved in 1983 before it was completely finished.
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[[File:Lacey Green Productions.jpg|thumb]]
 
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'''LGP’s sixth Theatre at Home production transformed “[[Chipko]]” into a courtroom and our audiences into juries. “The Dove”, written by Paul Honigmann, presented our audiences/juries with legal, personal, emotional & moral dilemmas in the form of a judge’s summing up and dramatized scenes.  But our audiences/juries rose to the challenge and delivered their verdicts (and ate their suppers!) over three nights at the end of September.'''
 
  
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'''However, everyone may wish to revise their opinions of the wisdom of jury trials as a result of these performances.'''
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'''6th  August 1984.   Agreement f'''or the Sale and Purchase between the Trustees of the Hampden Settlement and Mr & Mrs A C Clark
  
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'''After much serious, and at times heated, discussions our various audiences/juries managed to return all three possible verdicts guilty of murder, guilty of manslaughter and not guilty!  And we are pleased to print for the first time ever, pictures from a jury room. Amazingly we even had one hung jury with nine members!'''
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Extract from the Deeds.  This document is archived in Lacey Green [[Village Hall]].
  
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'''The complete results of our juries can be seen on our new website www.laceygreenproductions.co.uk'''
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It is agreed that Mr & Mrs A C Clark of Chipko will purchase for £3,000 on 3rd September 1984 - The piece of land containing 5 acres at [[Parslows Hillock]] and comprising part of Ordnance Survey Numbers 408 and 411 as shown on plan.   This property was part of the [[Hampden Estate Woodlands]].
  
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'''Whatever our audiences felt they were certainly very generous with donations for our charity for “The Dove”, Peace Direct.  Just over £1,000 was raised for them.'''
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'''The Purchasers shall :-'''
  
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'''Every week 1,000 people are killed in wars. In addition 15,000 more die every week from related causes such as disease or malnutrition.'''
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Shall pay the vendors legal fees
  
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'''Peace Direct’s mission is to find and support these local people in war zones worldwide. Peace Direct works to build a world where conflict is resolved without the use of force – see www.peacedirect.org'''
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Shall covenant to erect and maintain a stock proof fence  on the boundaries with inward facing T marks
  
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'''The total of LGP’s donations to charities now stands at just under £47,000 and we hope to give this another big boost with our November dinner theatre performances of “Arabian Nights”. This adaptation of the well-known 1001 nights story of Scheherezade and the stories she told to the Sultan is funny and fast-moving and at times humorously gruesome!'''
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Shall not undertake sawing operations of any nature between 7pm and 7am on any day.
  
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'''We are not using our normal stage for this show in the Village Hall and this will bring the action closer to the audience.'''
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Shall not erect any building or structure on the property
  
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'''As usual, our performance on the Thursday night, November 24 will be the play only with the bar open for drinks - ticket price £8. On the Friday and Saturday we shall perform the play with a two course dinner and the bar open for drinks - ticket price £20.'''
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Shall not use the property for any trade or business whatsoever and shall be maintained as woodland or woodland garden
  
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'''Tickets are available from 01844 347518 and 01844 344207 or from our new email address info@laceygreenproductions.co.uk'''
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Shall at no time dump any materials of any kind on the property
  
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'''"Chipko" hosted Concert for Anti-Slavery  reported by Andrew Clark, Chair, Anti-Slavery'''
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Shall nor erect any signboards, notice boards or advertisements on the property, except to indicate that no shooting is permitted or that the footpath across the property is not a bridle path
  
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Volunteered By The W5 Wind Quartet
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'''17th February 1998.  Conveyance.'''
  
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In the series of charitable events held at "Chipko" (on the left just past the Pink & Lily) in recent years, the latest was a second concert in aid of Anti-Slavery International. The W5 Wind Quintet, named after the district in London where it rehearses, came on Sat June 6th and gave a performance of French classical music followed, after an interval serving Fairtrade wines, by arrangements of English folk songs and jazz. The house was indeed packed with an audience of 48 whose generosity netted an excellent result of £ 2,739, including gift aid tax recovery.
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Between Roger Parker-Jervis Esq and The Honourable Ian Hampden Hope-Morley (the vendors) and Andrew Christopher Clark and Ann Noel Clark (the purchasers).
  
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Anti-Slavery International is the oldest existing human rights organisation in the world, dating from 1839. Slavery worldwide is illegal and yet has mutated.
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The vendors sold for £4,000 land comprising Part OS 3100 - 1.6 acres and Part OS 5700 - 0.6 acre.  Total 2.20 acres or thereabouts.  The land being known as part of "The Coombes" adjoining Wardrobes Lane, Great Hampden, Great Missenden shown on the plan.   A copy of this Conveyance is archived in Lacey Green [[Village Hall]].  
  
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Slavery is defined by the treatment of an individual as a commodity, forcing her or him to work (often for nothing) by violence or threats and denying freedom of movement. The concert programme sheet gave two examples, one from Niger in West Africa and one from High Wycombe. In the former, Hadijatou Mani, in an historic test case (like Rosa Parks for American civil rights), successfully sued the Niger government and her ex-master for failing to protect her from domestic and sexual enslavement. Nearer to home, Vietnamese young men are trafficked to High Wycombe, allegedly as "gardeners". Indebted for their transport, passports removed by the traffickers andunable to speak English, they are immediately incriminated by being made to grow cannabis in suburban houses. |
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'''23 November 2010.'''  Declaration of Trust. Chipko put in trust for Andrew & Ann Noel & their daughter and son-in-law.   This document is archived in Lacey Green [[Village Hall]].
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Anti-Slavery International has a staff of 20 and a programme of £2 millions worldwide, including UK. Trafficking of young women from Eastern Europe is probably the most high profile contemporary form of slavery in the UK. However, the forms of slavery around the world are descent-based slavery, cocoa plantation forced labour and abductions during warfare in Africa including child soldiers, bonded labour in Asia. Domestic and worst forms of child labour exist in Western capitals but are widespread Ip India and Philippines. In Asia forced child begging is also widespread.
 
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Anti-Slavery's Director is part of a £40M Cocoa Initiative funded by Cadburys in West Africa addressing labour conditions locally. The policy is to identify the slavery links in the commercial supply chains. Recently the USA fast food industry conceded the need to increase payment for tomatoes. Anti-Slavery works with local organisations as allies in each country to strengthen (and sometimes protect) them as they research the facts and campaign courageously. In Niger, Anti-Slavery together with the local organisation Timidria is assisting three new schools for the children of freed slaves. In UK it has campaigned and succeeded in making. the teaching of slavery as part of the national curriculum.
 
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Slavery is not yet history. To be informed write to Anti- Slavery International, The Stableyard, Broomsgrove Road, London SW9 9TL or telephone 0207 501.8920, or look at the website www.antislavery.org.
 
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Ideally, Anti-Slavery needs committed supporters who can give a small amount monthly. However one-off gifts Or money raised from events or sponsored activities are most welcome. Donors who are tax payers can increase their gift by signing the simple Gift Aid declaration - check the above website under "donate".
 

Latest revision as of 10:30, 21 April 2024

Plan 1943 'The Hut', later site of 'Chipko'

research by Joan West. Information taken from the Deeds, lent to me by Andrew Clark. "Much appreciated, thank you Andrew". A copy of which is archived in Lacey Green Village Hall.

click Andrew & Ann Noel Clark for their life history.

click Charity performances at Chipko for reports on 'Is it a Joke, or Serious?', 'The Dove', & 'W5 Wind Quartet Concert'.

click Clark for others in this family

click Families for other local families

On the site of Chipko had been a small house called 'The Hut'. It had no facilities.

2nd November 1943 Conveyance. Arnold & Zettie Clark bought 'The Hut' from Marjorie Vernon. They extended it with a lavatory and a kitchen.

In WW2 it was used as a base for The Home Guard, commanded by Col. Fairbrother, landlord of The Pink and Lily.

Extra land sold to A Clark Esq. 17th February 1998. see details beiow.

30 August 1975 Deed of Gift. Arnold and Zettee, now living in Great Missenden gave it to their son Andrew. The following extract is from the Deeds.

" The Grantors agreed with the Grantee that they would give the said property to the Grantee in consideration of his intended marriage. The said marriage was solomnised on the 4th May 1975.

As he was in India it was let to John and Sue Claydon about 1976/77, then called Bethany Cottage. Next it was let to an Irish man, whom Andrew had met in India called Phillip Burn whose wife was Indian. She was not happy and although ok it was condemned by the Council.

It was pulled down in 1982 and Chipko was built on the site containing 1 acre 16 perches

Rectangular piece of woodland purchased in 1984 adjacent to Bethany Cottage, later "Chipko"

B Robinson tells us in his obituary of Andrew "He returned home in 1983, now nearly 40, because he had been asked to become the General Secretary of Quaker Peace and Service. He moved into Chipko at Parslow’s Hillock, a house spectacularly located on the Chiltern escarpment that he designed to be sustainably powered by wood logged from his land. Andrew’s need for physical activity and danger would in future be satisfied by a chainsaw, a quad bike and a wood-burning stove".

Andrew and Ann Noel moved in 1983 before it was completely finished.

6th August 1984. Agreement for the Sale and Purchase between the Trustees of the Hampden Settlement and Mr & Mrs A C Clark

Extract from the Deeds. This document is archived in Lacey Green Village Hall.

It is agreed that Mr & Mrs A C Clark of Chipko will purchase for £3,000 on 3rd September 1984 - The piece of land containing 5 acres at Parslows Hillock and comprising part of Ordnance Survey Numbers 408 and 411 as shown on plan. This property was part of the Hampden Estate Woodlands.

The Purchasers shall :-

Shall pay the vendors legal fees

Shall covenant to erect and maintain a stock proof fence on the boundaries with inward facing T marks

Shall not undertake sawing operations of any nature between 7pm and 7am on any day.

Shall not erect any building or structure on the property

Shall not use the property for any trade or business whatsoever and shall be maintained as woodland or woodland garden

Shall at no time dump any materials of any kind on the property

Shall nor erect any signboards, notice boards or advertisements on the property, except to indicate that no shooting is permitted or that the footpath across the property is not a bridle path

17th February 1998. Conveyance.

Between Roger Parker-Jervis Esq and The Honourable Ian Hampden Hope-Morley (the vendors) and Andrew Christopher Clark and Ann Noel Clark (the purchasers).

The vendors sold for £4,000 land comprising Part OS 3100 - 1.6 acres and Part OS 5700 - 0.6 acre. Total 2.20 acres or thereabouts. The land being known as part of "The Coombes" adjoining Wardrobes Lane, Great Hampden, Great Missenden shown on the plan. A copy of this Conveyance is archived in Lacey Green Village Hall.

23 November 2010. Declaration of Trust. Chipko put in trust for Andrew & Ann Noel & their daughter and son-in-law. This document is archived in Lacey Green Village Hall.

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