Hallmark

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VOL 1 January/February 1970

Editor- M.E. Knott, Birchanger, Lacey Green;

Sub-Editor – E.E. Flintham, Ardengrove, Lacey Green;

Advertisements – E.W. Janes, 10 Greenlands, Lacey Green.  

Circulation 400 copies.

AIMS and OBJECTS. During the last few years many newcomers have moved into the district and the Village Hall Committee have felt for some time the need for a reliable method whereby the old and the new could come together to their mutual advantage.

Basically our aims are to keep people informed to what is happening in our community by means of a regular news letter; to publicise existing activities and organise new ones where there is a specific need; to provide a means whereby facilities are improved for the benefit of all concerned; and last but not least to serve our community in such a way so that that wish may enjoy each other’s company for leisure time activities.

With these objects in view all organisations in the village have been invited to submit regularly, reports on their activities.   These together with various articles, which it is hoped will be of interest, will be published every two months as “HALLMARK”, a magazine of our village for our village, and distributed free of charge to every household in Lacey Green and Loosley Row.

The support of everyone in supplying items of local news is hoped for, and any information, verbal or written, will be gratefully received.

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Hallmark February 1982. The following list was given of the correspondents from the organisations.

Baptist Church - Mrs C W Stevens. Baptist Sunday School - Diane Fowler

81st Club - Mrs L Williams. Horticultural Society - E A Rivett

Methodist Church - Mrs E Claydon. Scout Group - John Munday

St John's School - D E Anthony. School Association - Mrs J Barton

St John's Church - ? Sports and Social Club - John Stevens

Sports Club Cricket - John Stevens. Sports Club Football - Dick Currell

Sports Club Tennis - Bob Barton. Village Hall Social Committee - Lily Barber

Hallmark February 1983. The Editors Notebook.

Welcome. It has become our custom in the first issue of a new year, to say ‘welcome’ to all new residents, and in particular this year to a new vicar, Father Raymond Maynard. We hope all of you will find the magazine interesting and informative and that it will spur you on to actively engage in village life, surely one of the great joys of living.

The Bunker

If this Christmas many of us have given more thought to the Bradenham star (bunker contractors light) than the Bethlehem Star perhaps we might be forgiven. Certainly the rumpus caused by the bunker has set the village alight ‘in more ways than one.

The Peace Council pickets with their gipsy like caravan and posters strung out along the road, has annoyed many people. Others have admiration for their ideals and guts, these are people with the same convictions as the Greenham Common ladies. Cranks many people would call them, though to be fair their credibility is rising.

In a democracy, harnessed public opinion can exert tremendous pressure; opinion polls here and throughout Europe and America show the rise in influence of these Peace Groups. We would certainly be happier if repressive Governments in the eastern bloc allowed their Peace Groups the same freedom to influence. We aim not to take sides, but to produce a village magazine without mention of the bunker and all the nuclear controversy that surrounds it, would be to bury our heads in the sand, (or should it be chalk).

We only echo what seems to us the most-sane statement made recently, by one of the northern bishops, who said in essence that the two sides should respect each other's views, because everyone desperately wants peace, but disagree in the means of obtaining and keeping it.

The Green Belt

The harness of public opinion was shown very positively during 1982, when the Parish Council appealed to residents to support the County Council in it's County Structure Plan proposed to put Lacey Green and Loosley Row completely in the Green Belt, having the effect of allowing in-filling development and replacement of existing housing stock, but prohibiting any large-scale development. Out of 695 objections and representations sent to the Secretary of State for the. Environment from all of Buckinghamshire, 170 came from Lacey Green and Loosley Row. 40% of all households - quite a remarkable public participation.

Between February 8th and 18th a public examination into certain aspects of the County Structure Plan is taking place at Aylesbury. Lacey Green Parish Council have been invited to take part, much to the annoyance of many other Parish Councils, Resident Associations and Action Groups who didn't ‘shout’ as loud or as often as we did.

The Parish Council's case will be presented by Councillors Bradley and Janes

with local resident: Dr. Clive Wall.

Election Time

Its so easy for us to take for granted democracy, with all our electoral system of choice, that is denied to peoples of large areas of the world. And yet. we do, at election times, particularly local elections - 70% of us never bother to vote. Local government, with all its many, many faults, is still the best system in the world and very necessary, and for no other reason than they spend a large slice of our hard-earned income, we ought to show an interest.

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2009. A New Editor This edition marks the change--over from Norman Tyler to Mike Piercy as Editor.