The Big Benefice Quiz 6
Will be at the Millstone, Barnack, on Tuesday 10 June at 7pm.
Entry free, no prizes – come along and have fun!
If you would like to order food, please contact the Millstone. bookings@themillstonebarnack.co.uk or 01780 769979.
COFFEE STOP BARNACK
Special Services
Please join us from across the benefice on Sunday, 1 June at 9.30 am, as the Bishop of Brixworth, John Holbrook, presides at a communion service at Barnack, to give thanks for the replacement of the Lady Chapel Roof.
This will be a benefice service, so there will no other morning services that week in Bainton, Helpston, or Wittering.
There will be Messy Church in the afternoon at Helpston, and Taize at 4.30 pm at Bainton, where we will be looking at “Ascension”.
On Trinity Sunday 15th June, the Archdeacon of Oakham, Alison Booker, will be at St Botolph’s Helpston at 10.45.
Patronal Festivals will be held at St John Barnack, and St Botolph’s Helpston, at 9.30 am and 10.45 am respectively on Sunday 22nd June.
Pet Service
The pet service for Barnack, Ufford, Bainton, and Helpston will be on 29 June at 4.30 pm at Bainton. Please bring your dog, cat, sheep, horse etc along. All animals on leads / reins / in cages please!
‘Coffee Stop’.
is held in the Millstone Pub on Wednesday from 10.30 to 12 noon.
This provides an opportunity to catch up with friends – and make new ones if you are a newcomer to the village.
All welcome. Carol (740438)
The Acres & Little Northfields – A day to Remember
June 7th – D Day! And now, in more peaceful times, an opportunity to join a Fete to commemorate the heroes of the Normandy Landings.
The national Remembrance Day event will be filled with various attractions including a mini museum of memorabilia, BBQ and buffet, Gino’s ice cream, Tombolas for adults and children, stalls offering cakes, plants & flowers, AND a Ukulele Band! We hope to see you there.
Thanks from Hilary
Following the recent death of my husband Brian, I would like to thank all friends and neighbours in Ashton and Bainton who have supported me during this very difficult time.
I don’t know how I would have coped without all your kindnesses, sympathy cards, offers of help, food parcels, flowers and willingness to just listen.
My love and heartfelt thanks to you all.
Hilary
The Arts Society Peterborough Summer 2025 Activities
What to look out for over the summer months
Exhibition in The Museum 5th July -16th August
We will be running some art/craft activities for your children/grand-children during the week beginning 4th August so come and join us there!
Guided Arts Trail of City Centre on: open to all
Friday June 20th
Thursday July 10th
Thursday August 14th
all start at 10-30am and we meet at the Waitrose café, booking required, £5-00 per person £10 for family of 4. Max group size 12. contact: sheila.brown222@btinternet.com
For further information visit our website: the-arts-society-peterborough.org.uk
Bainton & Ashton Fete 2025
Date for your diaries
21st September 2025
We are having to move the date of our annual village(s) fete due to extensive renovation works to Bainton House. So we thought we might hold a Cider & Sausage Fete in September. It will be same format as usual just the odd change, taking in all things APPLE.
See you, Su
June Messy Church
Sunday 8th June 3.30 to 5pm in Barnack Church.
Snacks, drinks and a warm welcome at the beginning. Join in with a fun activity to get ready to hear about God’s Holy Spirit coming at Pentecost. Then lots of themed activities some songs, a thought on the Bible theme and a prayer. If the weather is nice we will be outside for some of the time.
Everyone welcome.
Date for your diary: Sunday 20th July in the afternoon, our amazing Messy Church Barbecue/Picnic! Details to follow.
ART EXHIBITION BARNACK
On Saturday 28th & Sunday 29th June there will be an exhibition of paintings, ceramics, prints, illustrations and mixed media creations at Barnack Village Hall.
8 members of the Deepford Artists Group are joining together with Barnack villagers Mary Stone and Katherine Winfrey to put on an exhibition as part of the annual Peterborough Artists Open Studios event.
Open from 10am – 4pm (free admission) with refreshments sold in aid of charity. All welcome.
The Buttercross Club
Our meeting on Wednesday, May 7th, was an excellent talk, amusing and informative,about Lincolnshire and its towns,making special reference to Stamford but including much detail about the county as a whole. Our speaker, Nicola Sandall, has taken over from Jill Collinge who has given a talk to Buttercross members on more than one occasion and who has also taken some of us on a tour of Stamford.
At the start of Nicola’s talk a Buttercross member asked why Lincolnshire folks were referred to as ‘yellow bellies’. It seems that as they laid on their stomachs in damp weather the yellow Fenland mud coloured the stomachs of poachers as they stalked game. Yellow was also incorporated in the uniform of local soldiers.
Prosperous Stamford, situated to the south of Lincolnshire, was deemed to be more upmarket than areas to the north. However, there is much that is important, both historically and in present times, taking place elsewhere in Lincolnshire. For example, it is in Lincoln that one of the copies of the 1215 Magna Carta is kept; it was in Grantham that the first female police officer was employed in 1914, mainly to deal with prostitution in Lincolnshire;it was in Pinchbeck in the 1950s that the first barcode was used (for cheese); it was at RAF Scampton, which closed on 31 March 2023, that 617 Squadron was housed – the famous Dam Busters.
Many interesting characters historically have visited or lived in the county. For example, Daniel Lambert, who is celebrated as the fattest man on record. In 1805 he made a tour of England drawing large crowds, and also received paying visitors to his lodgings. He was said to have weighed 52 stones (330 kg) at the time of his death in 1809. He was visiting Stamford for the races when he died. Henry V111 visited Gainsborough Old Hall many times. On one occasion he was accompanied byhis much younger wife, Catherine Howard. Henry accused her of committing adultery and she was executed in the Tower of London in 1542.
The county of Lincolnshire contains many fine buildings historically. As well as the ones we are familiar with in and near Stamford there are also some magnificent stately homes such as Belton House, Belvoir Castle, Lincoln Castle, Gunby Hall, Doddington Hall and Grimsthorpe Castle. Lincoln’s magnificent cathedral can be seen for miles. Its location is splendid and there is a fine statue of the poet, Alfred, Lord Tennyson and his dog in its grounds. He was at grammar school in Louth from whence he went to Trinity College, Cambridge. His father had been rector of Somersby where the family lived.
Diary dates: On Wednesday, June 4th, one of our members, Sandra Jones, is our speaker and her topic is ‘Summer Entertaining’. We are starting at our usual time of 7pm.
VE 80 DAY in BARNACK
- We would just like to thank everyone who supported the VE80 day celebrations in Barnack on Thursday 8th May – despite the rather chilly afternoon and evening.
A big thank you to the Dennis family (Walcot Hall) and Tom Phillips from the Walcot Estate team who supported and helped advise on the safe lighting of the Beacon. Also, Alex Miles, Velcourt Wakerley, very kindly supplied the telehandler, free of charge, which made the beacon lighting possible.
Afternoon tea and cakes were served from 3.00pm, with a quick table shift to inside the pavilion and the heating turned up to high! Well done to those who sat and braved it outside in their woollies and layers. From 4.00pm, more families joined after school and Amo La Pizza served a non-stop supply of pizzas to fill the tea-time food slot.
Thank you to all those friends in Barnack who made and donated cakes and sweet treats for all to enjoy. Thank you also to the bell ringers of Barnack Church who did a special celebratory “ring” at 5.30pm.
Hopefully residents also saw Barnack Church illuminated in the evening, which was a beautifully symbolic gesture to the fact that throughout the war the churches were dark in the blackout rules.
Thanks to the Friends of Barnack Church and Eddie Barker for fixing the electrics and to Gary Alderson for agreeing to the work and the illumination.
The celebrations at the cricket ground finished with the Beacon lighting ceremony at 8.00pm following some poignant words from Max Sawyer, Chairman, Barnack and District Branch, Royal British Legion – remembering those locally who served our Country in the war and fought for the freedom we enjoy today.
Barnack Parish Council & Barnack Community Association.
Barnack Community Association
Saturday 28th June – Summer Event Update
So for those of you who read this magazine and take notes, you may remember that in the January edition we mentioned that we hoped to bring you a Summer social on Saturday 28th June at Barnack Cricket Ground.
Our Summer fundraising event last year was Party at the Pavilion & Barnack Horticultural Show but we agreed,at our meeting last night, that this format will return in 2026. Party at the Pavilion takes a huge amount of planning time and volunteer support and we feel by having it every other year, helps with building enthusiasm and momentum for generating the village support we need.
We are still, however, planning to bring you some form of Summer Social on this date, but it will be a smaller and simpler format. Details are being finalised now, and you will receive a flyer through your door ASAP, as well as promoted via the usual socials.
Please just keep the date in your diary!
Hint: Pretty sure there’ll be the obligatory bar, BBQ, sweet treats and hopefully a dog show for a bit of entertainment!
Don’t forget the BCA volunteer team’s main responsibility is to manage and maintain Barnack Village Hall and the Sports Pavilion, so we need to ensure we allow time for this, as well as bring you fun events to build community spirit and raise funds for the charity.