James & Stella Mowatt

James and Stella Mowatt lived at the Crooked Chimney after Mrs Belcher retired.

James and Stella had twin girls.

In 1971 James Mowatt took over the editor's role of Hallmark from Michael Knott. The first magazine was published in February 1970, a small 7 page edition by the Village Hall Committee anxious to bring the village together for an all out money raising operation for a new Village Hall, and although over the years our aims may have fluctuated a little, the central aim has always been togetherness.

During the first year (Nos 1-6) Michael Knott was the editor and produced by Ted Janes and the late Ted Flintham, the duplicating was by the Vera Robinson agency in High Wycombe, which in fact was local resident Mrs. Wallace. The second year Nos 7-12) we became more ambitious with advert sheets and a substantial printed cover, green in colour, to symbolise the green in Lacey Green. James Mowatt took over the editorship with the same production team. By the third year we were in trouble, two years, two editors and no-one to take it over. We managed to produce Nos 13-18 with an editorial committee, James Mowatt, Ted Janes and the late Miss Fletcher, but it didn't work well and by the fourth year (No 19) Ted Janes took over temporary editing and producing just to keep the magazine going. Today, 81 issues later, he is firmly established as Mr. Hallmark.