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On Monday September 8 we had 10 tables
with Paul Wright & Hugh Cross coming 1st
N/S with 63.4 per cent and Andy Tilling &
Alan Burroughs 1st E/W with 59.9 per cent.
We meet at The Reading Room, Stratford
Sub Castle, Salisbury.
Email sarumbridge@gmail.com or visit
www.sarumbridgeclub.org.uk for further
information.
Duplicate night takes place on Monday and
Wednesday nights at 7pm.
Social duplicate nights for improvers start-
ed every Thursday from September 11 at
3.15pm. Several of our members will be there
to offer help and advice.
Every Tuesday from September 23 there
will be beginners’ lessons at 1.30 and
improvers at 4pm
To find out more or book a place call the
secretary on 07917 196886.
NEIGHBOURHOOD
AND CLUB NEWS
SIX-YEAR-OLD Poppy Bush, pictured above,
from Berwick St James proudly displays her
rosette for coming second in the hugely pop-
ular Wylye Fete Dog Show on Saturday.
The sun always seems to shine for the fete
which was very well attended this year and
raised thousands for the village.
Talk’s focus on
country estate
n HISTORY fans can find out what goes on
behind the scenes of a country estate tonight.
Bourne Valley Historical Society will be
having a talk by Louise Govier called Behind
the Scenes at Mottisfont at Glebe Hall in
Winterbourne Earls from 7.45pm.
Mottisfont Abbey is a historical priory and
country estate near Romsey which holds regu-
lar art exhibitions and also a lovely garden.
Visitors are welcome to attend the talk for a
small donation. For more information call
Maureen on 01980 611311 or go to bourneval-
leyhistory.co.uk.
n A COMMUNITY health event is being held
in Tidworth on Monday.
The event at Ludgershall Memorial Hall,
which starts at 2pm, will have a range of stalls
providing health-related advice and informa-
tion on everything from stopping smoking, to
healthy eating, diet and exercise.
People can get free checks on their blood
pressure and cholesterol levels and there will
be healthy refreshments available. There will
also be a series of workshops and talks at
Ludgershall library, on Dementia Friends and
the Good Neighbour and Link schemes.
A walking group will lead a walk to
Ludgershall Castle at 2.15pm and talk about
the benefits of walking for health.
At 5.30pm Maggie Rae, director of public
health and representatives from the Clinical
Commissioning Group will present the Better
Care Plan for Wiltshire and what it will mean
Harnham
Neighbourhood
Association
THE association celebrates its 40th anniver-
sary this year, and all residents are invited to
its AGM on Wednesday, September 24 at
7.30pm in the Church Hall, Lower Street, West
Harnham.
In addition to hearing the annual reports,
you will be able to vote for new members of
the committee, followed by refreshments, a
raffle and a talk by guest speaker David
Burton of Natural England.
There are still a number of vacancies on the
committee.
If you would consider giving up six evenings
per year to help make Harnham’s voice heard,
contact secretary John McGarry by emailing
salience@btinternet.com or telephoning 01722
325312.
MEMBERS of Salisbury U3A
(University of the Third Age)
have been busy folding origami
elephants.
They are contributing to a proj-
ect being organised by the
Zoological Society of London,
which hopes to create a display of
30,000 origami elephants – one for
each of the Asian elephants left in
the world – and thus raise aware-
ness of their declining numbers
and endangered status.
Counting of the paper models
will take place at Whipsnade Zoo
during the ZSL’s Elephantastic
Weekend 20-21 September, and the
models will go on permanent dis-
play there.
Eighteen U3A members came to
the afternoon sessions at Joan
New’s house in Harnham to fold
elephants and elephant heads.
Afterwards some of them con-
tinued folding at home. Further
contributions came from the local
branch of Parkinson’s which fold-
ed elephant heads during their
‘Free and Easy’ August meeting.
Joan was able to send nearly 200
elephants and 50 elephant heads
to the zoo.
Group members contribute to origami project
U3A members at Joan New’s house in Harnham, folding elephants and elephant heads, examples pictured right
Sarum Bridge
Club
Bulford WI
BULFORD WI had their afternoon meeting
on September 4 at 2.30pm with 26 members
present.
President Olive Lane discussed all the busi-
ness when they had a very interesting and
sometimes funny talk from member Joan
Flint.
She told the group about her apprentice-
ship to becoming a milliner when she lived in
London and made hats for the Princess Royal.
The meeting finished with tea and raffle at
4.15pm.
New members are very welcome, for more
information contact 01980 632899.
DURRINGTON, TIDWORTH,
LARKHILL & BOURNE VALLEY
CCoonnttaacctt CCOORREEYY RROOSSSS corey.ross@salisburyjournal.co.uk
and Heritage Fayre held in the Cathedral
Close.
A large audience heard about the archaeo-
logical discoveries that prove Amesbury is
Britain’s oldest settlement and volunteers
from the trust said they enjoyed being “on
tour” and telling people more about the town’s
historical significance.
n A PARISH lunch will be held at Christ The
King Church in Amesbury on September 25, it
costs £5 for a three course meal and places can
be booked through the church.
The church is also hosting a coffee morning
on Saturday from 10.30 to 12noon.
for the delivery of care services in the future.
Then at 6pm the Tidworth Area Board will
discuss grants and updates.
For more information contact Mary Cullen
on 01722 434260 or email mary.cullen@wilt-
shire.gov.uk.
n PEOPLE can snap up some early Christmas
gifts in Tidworth next Tuesday and
Wednesday. The Early, Early Christmas Fair,
which supports ABF The Soldiers’ Charity, is
being held at Tedworth Park from 2pm to 6pm
on Tuesday and 9.30am to 4pm on Wednesday.
There are more than 90 stalls selling food,
fashion, personalised stationery, books,
homeware, beauty products, Christmas deco-
rations and stocking fillers and each stall-
holder will give ten per cent of every purchase
to ABF The Soldiers’ Charity.
To find out more and buy tickets go to eec-
fair.org.uk.
for two years.
Jenny then vividly described the swaddling
of the baby including seven layers of nappies
each interleaved with sphagnum moss and
changed every three days.
The poorer babies had a hook incorporated
in their swaddling to allow them to be hung
from a wall or tree as they rarely had access to
a cradle.
As they grew up the wealthy children learnt
reading, writing English, Latin, Greek,
French, Spanish and Italian.
The boys learnt all about War Horses and
the girls learned embroidery. The poor chil-
dren earned money from the age of three,
working in the fields and the home.
Jenny described with some verve the horri-
ble jobs that the youngsters had to undertake.
She also told of the various things used for
medication, cleaning teeth, curing toothache
and how wigs were made.
Vivian Longland then thanked Jenny on
behalf of members for her amazing insight
into Tudor history.
The competition for an interesting fact
about Tudor Life was won jointly by Sue
Taylor and Vivian Longland.
The next meeting is on Wednesday, October
8 when we shall be entertained by our own
Jan and John Moore who will tell us about
Iceland.
Pooch finishes
in second place
TWENTY four members attended the
September meeting of Dinton WI held in
Dinton Village Hall.
Discussions about a variety of events taking
place in the future followed, including a visit
to Waitrose for a cookery demonstration in
December and the WFWI Annual Council
meeting to be held in the City Hall in October.
Members were reminded about the Three
Valleys Group Meeting to be held at 2.30pm on
Monday, October 13 at South Newton Village
Hall when we are invited to take a guest, male
or female, to learn about wood carving.
Barbara Smith asked members to encourage
friends and neighbours to use the new village
community shop.
Paddy Archer will be organising the new
Coffee Shop and gave a plea for homemade
cakes.
After coffee, the president introduced the
speaker, Jenny Peet, whose talk was entitled
No Knickers - A Light-hearted Look at Tudor
Life.
Then followed an amazing look into what
we could have expected had we been born dur-
ing that era. For a start if we had been well off
our mother would have been incarcerated in
her bedchamber for two months prior to the
birth and a month afterwards - no daylight,
heavy hangings, candles and definitely no
fresh air!
At the end of that time having been
‘Churched’ the woman returned to her hus-
band and to having a baby every year. The
poorer class managed to delay further babies
Dinton WI