Sorting our history
ALTHOUGH progress on the proposed Penn and Tylers Green Heritage Centre is stalled temporarily, work is progressing on establishing the community archive that it will contain.
Two residents, Madalyn Roker of Beacon Hill, Penn, and Cathy Sturrock, of Hammersley Lane, Tylers Green, are forming a team to determine what historical material there is available so it can be catalogued.
Eventually the Heritage Centre, at the village hall, will store publicly accessible archive for Penn and Tylers Green as well as host an exhibition area to showcase special village exhibitions and school projects on local issues.
Lots of old photographs, historically important documents, village memorabilia and fascinating artefacts are currently stored in various spare rooms, cupboards and lofts in people’s homes in the village. The centre will enable all these treasures to be safely stored and accessible in one place and available for future generations to enjoy.
If you have such material that you would be prepared to share, have copied or donate to the centre, then please contact Madalyn or Cathy. You can email them on madalynroker@hotmail.com or cathy.sturrock@hotmail.co.uk. If you would prefer to send a letter, write to me at Tylers Green Village Hall, Church Road, Tylers Green, Penn HP10 8LN and I’ll pass it on.
If you would like to join the archive team to help sort out the available material and begin the process of how to assimilate it, then please also contact Madalyn or Cathy.
Brothers honoured for fine achievements
PRIDE in the Hammersley Lane household of Roger and Jenny Spicer whose two sons have won special awards for outstanding endeavour.
Youngest son Chris, 32, was awarded a British Empire Medal in the Queen’s delayed birthday honours list last month because of his special contribution to the coronavirus crisis. He works for the engineering group Babcock near Bristol and led a team challenged by the Government in March to produce quick and effective ventilators for hospitals.
Despite no prior medical knowledge and no experience of building ventilators, the team produced within five hectic days a ventilator known as Zephyr Plus. It used non-medical components and off-the-shelf oxygen sensors and pressure regulators.
“This was a once in a lifetime challenge we could and should rise to despite the immense sacrifice the whole team went through,” said the company technology boss Dr Jon Hall.
Meanwhile elder son Nick, 37, who runs a renewable energy company, has learned he is to become a Fellow of the prestigious Royal Geographical Society for his contribution to geography.
Best foot forward…
EVERY day during this November lockdown Neil Bellamy, of The Lawns, Tylers Green, is donning his running shoes to raise money for the Stroke Association…by the end of the month he is determined to have completed 100 miles.
He has personal motivation…his dad, Eddie, a stalwart at the Penn and Tylers Green Sports and Social Club, suffered a stroke on holiday in Turkey a few weeks ago and is undergoing recovery treatment at Wycombe Hospital.
If you would like to contribute to his fund raising efforts please go to his Just Giving page at http://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/neil-bellamy2
Fame at last
IT WAS a surge of Democrat votes in Bucks County that tipped the balance against Donald Trump (court cases permitting) in Pennsylvania yesterday and the leader of Buckinghamshire Council here, Martin Tett, couldn’t resist a tweet…”Fame at last”.
One wonders what the founder of Pennsylvania, one William Penn, who hails from these parts, would have made of it. His biographer Mary Maples Dunn described him as “extravagant, a bad manager and businessman and not very astute in judging people and making appointments.” Sounds like he and Donald would have got along just fine.
Red kite; red sky
Bradley Scott-Stevens posted this lovely dawn picture from Wycombe Heights golf course on the High Wycombe Now and Then Facebook page this week, proving that although November may not be the most glorious month of the year, it has a beauty of its own.