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June 2008
I’m still here! I’ve just acquired a new hobby and, as is the way with me, I buried myself in it to the exclusion of everything else. However, I’m now back in control of my life so here is the Feltwell newsletter for June 2008.
On the website front the BIG news is the introduction of the BIG PICTURE. Well, if Google Earth can do why can’t Feltwell? In reality what I’ve done is to re-scan all of Chris Cock’s postcard collection at a much higher resolution than all those years ago when I did them for the first time. I’m now in the process of uploading them to the website and making the numerous changes to hyperlinks etc that this causes. The new BIG PICTURES can be accessed by clicking on the magnifying glass icons which are starting to appear on the Old Feltwell Tour pages. I’ve also scanned, at even higher resolution, various sections of the post cards in order to bring out the detail of, e.g. faces, signs etc. Some of the detail emerging is fantastic. Do be aware that if you have a slow internet connection these pictures will take a long time to download and they are designed to be displayed at 1240 screen resolution. If any Feltwellian who has already provided me with a photograph which is on the website would like to re-scan it at a higher resolution, for inclusion in the BIG PICTURE collection, please feel free to do so.
Continuing the website theme… I’ve decided to put up all of the newsletters. Just when I will do this I don’t yet know but it has dawned on me(!) that they are, in themselves, an historical record not only of the development of Feltwell.net but of Feltwell itself. My final piece of news in relation to the website is that I now have a Local Correspondent, or to put it another way, a little voice that emails me regularly to say, "This should be on the website," "Have you done it yet?" "You know you should get your finger out and update the website." Her name is Christine Dare and, as I’m actually writing a newsletter, her gentle nagging must be working. Thanks, Christine.
Feltwell news, now. Upcher Close is now fully occupied and lots of young Feltwellians have a foot on the housing ladder. An interesting thing about this development is that all of the houses have been built with ground-source heat pumps which, apparently, produce 3 units of free heat energy for every unit used. In today’s world of ever-increasing oil prices this has to be a good thing. Certainly, when I visited the houses back in March they were lovely and warm. I was so taken with this technology that I’m now seriously looking at putting it in when my aged oil boiler finally gives up on me. Old School Close(?), off The Beck, is nearing completion as are the rather nice looking barn conversions at the old Walkers Farm site on Long Lane. The Parish Council has decide to update the playing field equipment and a new group of Feltwell teenagers calling themselves PFL (The Proper Feltwell Lot) have been formed with the aim of installing a Youth Shelter and a Skateboard Area. This youth initiative is being supported by the KLWN Youth Team and we hope that it will grow into a fully fledged Youth Club and, hopefully, lead to a reduction in the minor vandalism we have suffered in the last few months. Those of you who remember the West End Public House will be disappointed to learn that it has been shut for many months which means that The Wine Lodge and The Chequers are the only two pubs left in the village. The Social Club continues but is, I believe, finding things difficult. When you can buy 4 cans of beer from a supermarket for almost less than the cost of a pint the economics of going out for a drink don’t make much sense. Whilst our pubs and clubs suffer the Post Office has been told that it will be staying open for the foreseeable future which is excellent news. And we now have Fish and Chip shop in the village. The Fish Piper opened in March.
For those who know of him, Flat Stanley has now visited Feltwell twice!
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