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September 2004

Don't panic. You didn't miss the August newsletter because I didn't do one. My school finished for its summer break almost a week after my wife's and what with tidying up my office on the first two days of the holiday and getting ready to fly to the Canaries I completely forgot the newsletter. It wasn't until we got back that I remembered and by then it was too late to do one so I decided to wait until now. A good thing that I did because there is still little to report. The new Pharmacy at the Surgery has the roof on, the traffic problems on Wilton Road have disappeared as it's the school holidays, the harvest is likely to be down on last year because of the wet weather and the Engineering works in the old school have been sold, so I've heard, together with the land behind for a small housing development. This will be a private project as opposed to the Council's development which is being done with a Housing Association and plans to provide additional affordable housing for the village. And that is that! Like I said, a quiet summer, however, I must tell you about the walk that the Parish Clerk and I had with representatives of the Highways Department around the village a couple of weeks ago. To cut a long story short it transpires that every major road and all the pavements in all the estates are on the list for resurfacing and some of them have been on the list for several years. So why has no work been done? Well, at the start of every year some committee looks at all the resurfacing proposals and compiles a new list based upon urgency, road usage and the money available. What this means for Feltwell is that we are unlikely to see any major road or pavement improvements because there is always somewhere more pressing e.g. Downham Market, Kings Lynn and Hunstanton, or maybe I'm just being cynical. We did, however, get an explanation for the red cats eyes in the middle of Bell Street, the road crew who put them in simply picked up the wrong colour!

As far as the website is concerned things are getting very quiet. The only highpoints of the last two months were a letter from Mr Bill Land about Feltwell's Naval volunteers during WW2 which contained a photograph of the crew of the submarine HMS Salmon with Mr Raymond Walden amongst its number, and some photographs from John Acle of the opening of the golf course. These are now on the RAF Feltwell website. And membership is in decline with, for the first time, more returned copies of this newsletter, whose recipients then get moved to 'lost members', than applications.

Finally, does anyone know a Mrs Elizabeth V. Robertson. I have been given an old Christmas card based on a painting of the Old Rectory in the snow which is signed by this lady. I would like to ask her permission to put a scan onto the website but have no means of contacting her. Can anyone help? Family history details requested this month include Shin(g)field, Flatt and Marsh.