Our Village Hall was packed to capacity for this memorable evening with Hugh Lupton, author and story-teller.
Hugh’s superb story telling skills and wide repertoire kept the audience mesmerised as he told of poachers and princesses, farmers and faeries, kings and tinkers.
His stories ranged from well loved traditional Norfolk legends, to contemporary anecdotes and a song of love for the girl in the Cromer fish shop. His story from “weird Suffolk” caused a shiver down the spine and his yarns of John Oliver the poacher reduced the audience to gales of laughter.
A supper buffet and licensed bar helped make this a most convivial evening.
There are few members of our community who claim Scottish roots, yet we nonetheless filled the Village Hall to celebrate the anniversary of Scotland’s famous poet.
A delicious traditional dinner featuring haggis, neeps and cranachan was followed by poetry readings and a light-hearted “address to the lassies”.
The evening concluded with enthusiastic Scottish dancing led by expert dance teacher Joyce Sutherland.
A remarkable one man show by Alex Gwyther engaged an appreciative audience in the story of the 1914 Christmas Truce. Supported by the simplest of sets and an evocative sound track the eighteen year old actor brought an emotional intensity to the performance which left the audience hushed, with tears in their eyes.
Mulled wine and a delicious buffet accompanied this event which supported by Creative Arts East.
On The Street in Erpingham (NR11 7QD). Run by a voluntary Committee for all the residents of the two parishes. Meetings of the Committee are usually on the first Wednesday of alternate months. Contact the Chair, Tony Moore 01263 768358.
Rebound Training
Takes place in Erpingham Village Hall on Thursday evenings at 7:15pm
Rebound involves a series of exercises performed on small individual trampolines. The sessions, in addition to being great fun, work the whole body including internal organs, muscles and skin.
For further information contact: amybarratt@ymail.com
The Committee run regular events to raise funds for improvements and would welcome new ideas and fresh faces to help. There is a 200 Club which is an important source of funds for the Village Hall. It costs 25p per week and has £5 and £10 prizes every month, and a maximum prize of £150 twice per year. There are usually a few numbers available. Contact Jan Jeavons, 761620.
The Hall is available to hire for children’s parties, etc.
Bookings through Ros Horne 01263 761702.
Local news
Keeping in Touch
Keeping in Touch is the monthly newsletter for the Parishes of Alby with Thwaite, Aldborough, Calthorpe, Erpingham, Ingworth, and Thurgarton (the “Scarrowbeck” Group of Parishes).
It is distributed by volunteers to every house and has details of forthcoming events, church services and notices, Parish Council notices etc. It also has a page of small ads for local services and businesses.
Did you know? This website is partly compiled from information from KiT, on a monthly basis.
Newspapers
There are several free newspapers/magazines in our part of north Norfolk including the Crab Tales, and the Just Regional series of magazines. They are obtainable from several local outlets including Alby garage and Alby Crafts.
The commercial newspaper is the North Norfolk News every Thursday, published by the same people who publish the Norfolk-wide EDP.
Notice boards
There are notice boards at:
Aldborough, outside the Spar Stores
Aylsham, on the East wall of the Town Hall
Erpingham, on the wall of the Erpingham Arms.
Erpingham, on the wall of the Village Hall (Parish Council and Village Hall notices).
And outside the churches at Calthorpe and Erpingham
Multi Use Games Area – MUGA
Erpingham Parish Council has recently installed a Multi-Use Games Area, which is available for residents and visitors to book for free.
Erpingham MUGA, situated next to the Village Hall (NR11 7QB), is a community asset comprising an all-weather surface with floodlighting, recess goals, rebound fencing, basketball hoops, fence-located wickets and mobile tennis nets.
The MUGA is open for anyone wishing to participate individually or as part of a team in recreational sporting activities, 8am – 9pm Monday to Friday and 9am – 8pm at Weekends. There is no charge to use the MUGA, but tokens to operate the floodlights must be purchased from the Spread Eagle Pub or from the Alby Service Station on the A140.
MUGA Risk Assessment – An exemplar that users such as school groups, etc. may want, to assist with their paperwork.
Recycling and Waste
The wheelie bins are collected weekly on Thursdays – green bin one week, grey bin the next. The green bin is for recyclable waste and there is a strict list of allowable material. The grey bin is for non-recyclable waste, which goes to landfill.
There is also a garden waste collection service (brown bin) which is collected on the same Thursday as the green bin. This currently costs approx. £40 per year.
Please put glass in the bottle banks outside the Village Hall. The village hall gets an income from these. There is a further glass re-cycling facility at The Erpingham Arms, which also supports the Village Hall.
The nearest household waste disposal sites are at Hilltop on the A148 near Sheringham and at Meeting Hill near North Walsham. These are operated by Norfolk County Council.
Ingworth Trosh 2014
RECORD CROWDS FOR THE TROSH – Sunday September 14th
Carry on a-troshing!
After last year’s terrible weather the Ingworth Trosh (although now Erpingham/Colby way) was blessed with no rain and a smattering of sunshine.
This year the Trosh supported no less than three threshers (two Ransomes and one John Deere American thresher) which must be a record all in one place. They threshed wheat and baled straw all afternoon much to the delight of everyone there. This alongside two traction engines in full steam, multiple vintage tractors both static and ploughing, classic cars, and an enormous modern combine and beet harvester for comparison.
The rural theme continued with an impressive display of sheep shearing and then a Fun Dog Show. Every size and shape of dog imaginable and all so well behaved! Everything from ‘A Bad Hair Day’ (for the scruffiest dog) to that ‘Most like its Owner’.
Children’s fun rides, and owls and other birds of prey provided fun for all the family as well as a plentiful supply of stalls and displays and a large refreshment tent.
Erpingham Church next year is commemorating the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt when Sir Thomas Erpingham led the long bow archers to certain victory and on this weekend next year (i.e. 12th and 13 September) there will be a spectacular Medieval Pageant on fields near the church, so an archer from the Black Knight Historical was there to talk to people about that and medieval archery. The Trosh will still take place in 2015, most probably on the following weekend.
Thanks must go to all those people who put in so much time, effort and money to make the Trosh such a success this year, but a special thanks to Alan Witham who is most instrumental in organising the event year on year and to the Alston family for very generously letting us borrow their fields.
The Trosh raised about £6,400 for the upkeep of the 3 medieval churches of Alby, Ingworth and Erpingham.
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