Children's Fun Sports Day

The Trustees and the Cricket Club would like to thank all those who helped organise the event, helped set up and assist on the day and, of course, the parents and children who took part in the races. A good time was had by all.

Jayne Tibbles Clerk to the Trustees

Report From The Parish Council Meeting
Monday 2ND August

The main discussion at the PC Meeting was traffic calming in the village. Mark Youngman, Speed Management Officer, from the Environment and Transport Department attended the meeting and outlined all the possible methods of reducing the speed of traffic entering and exiting the village. The Parish Council decided to re-form the Visitor Management Group to see if there was a way forward using the suggestions from Mark Youngman.


The Parish Council opposed the erection of a single-storey and first-floor extensions at Old School. Leveretts Lane.  They considered that the revised application, which proposed seven bedrooms, would still result in over massing of the site and would be out of scale and character with the original school. They also opposed the change of use from a restaurant to a single dwelling at DeCressy's, but had no objections to the erection of a two-storey extension.

Viv Hunt, Clerk to the PC

Advice Surgery

Free confidential benefits advice will be made available to all residents age 60+ in Southwold and the surrounding area. 

Age Concern working in partnership with the Fox Trust are committed to assisting retired people in the area and appreciate that many older people in the community would prefer to access information on their 'doorstep'.  Southwold Town Council have offered the use of a ground floor room at the Town Hall free of charge. 

An Advice Surgery will be held on the last Tuesday of every month between 10.00 a.m. and 12.00 noon, commencing on Tuesday 28th September 2004. The service is available to retired people who require help with completing forms such as Housing and Council Tax benefit and Pension Credit. Information will also be available on disability related benefits and where necessary a home visit can be arranged. Many people are uncertain as to what they are entitled to and this is an excellent opportunity for people to check whether they are receiving all benefits to which they may be entitled.

For further information of this surgery and dates for surgeries held in Beccles and Lowestoft please contact: 01986 872707 (9.30 a.m. - 12.30 pm, Monday to Friday)

Tractor Bob

The sound of a vintage tractor has not been heard in the village for some time. Tractor Bob died on the 2nd of July 2004.
Robert John Snowden was born in Southwold on the 16th of August 1936. His family had lived in the area for several generations. Snowdens Yard in Southwold is named after his grandfather who sold paraffin and hardware there in the 1900s, and his father was the groundsman on Southwold golf course.
After leaving Reydon School he worked on the land in Suffolk and Essex driving tractors and agricultural machinery, at which he became expert.
In the 1970s he moved to a smallholding in Lodge Road, Walberswick, where he lived in a caravan with his dog, a tame pheasant, ducks and geese. He was a genuine animal lover; dogs were his favourites.
For many years he worked with Ginger Winyard who owned the village shop and numerous smallholdings; they grew vegetables and flowers, which were sold in the shop.
Bob also did gardening work in the village, becoming indispensable to some of his elderly customers. Inside the perennial blue boiler suit and baseball cap was a very kind and helpful person, who never complained about his own problems. He had been a diabetic for forty-five years.
About eleven years ago Bob was persuaded to move to Adams Lane where he lived with helpful and friendly neighbours.
He would be annoyed if he knew that 'some stupid Pratt' had suggested that the village will miss him!
Contributor's name supplied

WI
Drugs And Alcohol Abuse

Our new season begins again on the 8th of September  with a talk, given by Mr Herne, on the Abuse of Drugs and Alcohol.
Meetings are held in the Village Hall from 2.30 p.m. (talks begin at 3 p.m.) and we are always pleased to welcome visitors and new members.
Julia Josephs

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