The 50th Anniversary celebration was a great success.  We got off to a good start with a two page spread in the EDP Sunday supplement a week before, and this generated quite a lot of interest.  (If you missed this excellent article, it is still on the EDP website  www.edp24.co.uk   under the Hidden Norfolk series.)

The evening with John Timpson drew an audience of over 116 people and we were greatly entertained by anecdotes and stories from his most interesting career.  Laughter is a good medicine and we enjoyed a good measure of that.
We are very grateful to Sue Lilwall and friends for decorating the church so beautifully with flowers for the occasion and for the nice supper and drinks that were laid on afterwards.
Our thanks too to all who loaned photographs for the exhibition. Hopefully you have got them all safely back now.  Miss Margaret Folland, younger daughter of the Rector at the time, gave us a framed collection  of photographs that her mother took at the various stages of the re-building of the church.  We had not seen these before.
Thank you everyone for your support.  We raised £861.

The church took two years to build and was not dedicated until 1955.  Something else for us to celebrate in two years time!
John Timpson has written an article about Bawdeswell for the June issue of the Norfolk Journal.

There is a meeting of The Friends at Church View on Tuesday 10th June at 7.30pm.

We are always keen to extend our membership, and you can help us by taking part in our 100 Club Draw.   At the moment the draw is only Quarterly  (1st prize £100) because we have not reached 100 members yet.

The next Draw is due on  Saturday July 5th at a Coffee Morning in the Church 10.30am.  Do come along, no charge is made for coffee and biscuits, and  the last one was very well attended !

For information about the Friends please ring  688499 (evenings) or 688268.
 
 
 
 

PRESENT: Councilors Battley(Chairman),Hind, Jackson and Lilwall 
Gordon Bambridge (DC), 6 Parishioners
APOLOGIES:  Councilors Clarke and McColville.    Mrs.I.Floering Blackman. 

ANNUAL PARISH MEETING:  Councilor Battley opened the meeting and stated it had been an honour and privilege to have served Bawdeswell on the Council as Chairman over the past 10 years and thanked previous Clerks, Councilors (especially Mary Farthing who was probably the longest serving member) , Mr. Mallen and Mrs. Floering Blackman for their help and support during that period.    He then resigned as Chairman and asked for nominations for new Chairman.  Councilor Lilwall nominated Geoff Hind as Chairman, seconded Councilor Jackson.  Councilor Hind nominated John Clarke as Vice Chairman, seconded Councilor Lilwall (as he was not at meeting this to be confirmed).  Mr. Robin Taylor thanked Mr. Battley on behalf of the Village for his commitment to Bawdeswell and the Parish Council over the years.
-Declaration of Acceptance of Office signed by Councilors present.
-There are still two vacancies on PC but several people had put their names forward and Councilors would discuss.
- Clerk gave resume of  year 2002/2003 and as Accounts had been agreed at April meeting - this concluded APM.

PARISH COUNCIL MEETING:
- Letter from Mr. Gurney stating that triangular piece of land corner of Norwich Road and road leading to Hall is owned by his family - a conservation project is to start shortly.
Village Hall: Several people have volunteered to form new Management Committee - first meeting 19th May and then monthly. More help is still needed.
Planning: 22 Reepham Road- erection of conservatory - no objections.
PP granted to : The Old Workhouse Bar - with various conditions made by Breckland  and Barn adjacent to Park Farm(change of usage.)
- Land in Reepham Road - erection of 10 dwellings - Breckland has refused permission for this to go ahead - developer has 6 months in which to Appeal.
- 25 Folland Court - change of use application to be completed for wardens office.
-  Church View ,The Street, new staircase and rooflight -Copy of Appeal circulated .

NEXT MEETING IS MONDAY 2ND JUNE AT 7.30PM IN THE VILLAGE HALL.  ALL PARISHIONERS ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND.