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Showing posts with label Nocton School. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nocton School. Show all posts
Wednesday, 23 May 2018
Nocton School - 5K Fun Run/Walk
Keep fit and also contribute to a good cause!
Sunday, 14 January 2018
Nocton Community Primary School - results
The Real Schools Guide 2018
The Real Schools Guide 2018 is compiled by Trinity Mirror's data unit and aims to give a far more comprehensive picture than traditional league tables. It takes into account 44 different data points - including not just KS2 results but factors like progress, pupil-teacher ratios and absence rates.Results
Rating - One starOverall - 35.6 out of 100
Ranked - 12,238 out of 14,624
Attainment - Two stars
Attainment for all - One star
Progress - Two stars
Attendance - Five stars
Primary Schools
http://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/real-schools-guide-search-1044382
Secondary Schools
http://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/real-schools-guide-search-secondary-227769
Saturday, 23 December 2017
Nocton Primary School - trees felled
No tree preservation order applied
I refer to the planning application to fell the Norwegian Spruce situated at the front of the Primary School - 17/1323/TCO.These trees have been damaging the footpath alongside the fence of the school, to the extent it is classed as a trip hazard.
You can see the work being undertaken to fell the offending items on Wed 20th Dec 2017.
It is surprising the amount of light that is now entering the area and whilst I don't like our village trees being felled, in some cases work has to be carried out for very good reason.
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Image 1 - chopping off the top
[photo by Maria Hall]
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Image 2 - hand raised in celebration
[photo by Maria Hall]
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Image 3 - getting ready for the next cut
[photo by Maria Hall]
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Tuesday, 15 August 2017
Excessive health and safety culture
Do health and safety regulations go too far?
In a 2011 poll featuring the question above:
It seems we are living in a time when people can sue for anything, so is it any wonder organisations and public bodies are becoming over cautious with health and safety?
There is an old saying: "Common sense is not so common". You can use your own judgement about whether the response to the footpath 'hazard' near the local Community School is overkill, considering the potential risk involved.
In a 2011 poll featuring the question above:
- 95% voted: "Yes, we need to stop worrying and allow people the freedom to make their own decisions about their safety."
- 5% voted: "No, councils run the risk of being sued if they do not do everything in their power to protect citizens, health and safety is essential."
It seems we are living in a time when people can sue for anything, so is it any wonder organisations and public bodies are becoming over cautious with health and safety?
There is an old saying: "Common sense is not so common". You can use your own judgement about whether the response to the footpath 'hazard' near the local Community School is overkill, considering the potential risk involved.
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| Roots breaching tarmac surface of footpath |
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Fluorescent yellow spray paint; Orange warning notices;
Red/white striped boundary tape; Traffic cones and flashing yellow lights
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Wednesday, 15 February 2017
Nocton Community Primary School - funding
Small village schools are at risk of closure because of unfunded costs
'When a village school is closed, the heart of the community is lost. So let’s give these schools a chance and keep our village communities alive.'
https://theconversation.com/small-village-schools-are-at-risk-of-closure-because-of-unfunded-costs-71665
Schools funding arrangements 2017/18
'Information for local authorities and schools on revenue funding in 2017 to 2018'
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/schools-funding-arrangements-2017-to-2018
School funding in England. Current system and proposals for 'fairer school funding'
'This note provides background on the planned introduction of a national funding formula for schools in England, now due to be implemented from 2018-19.'
http://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/SN06702
'When a village school is closed, the heart of the community is lost. So let’s give these schools a chance and keep our village communities alive.'
https://theconversation.com/small-village-schools-are-at-risk-of-closure-because-of-unfunded-costs-71665
Schools funding arrangements 2017/18
'Information for local authorities and schools on revenue funding in 2017 to 2018'
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/schools-funding-arrangements-2017-to-2018
School funding in England. Current system and proposals for 'fairer school funding'
'This note provides background on the planned introduction of a national funding formula for schools in England, now due to be implemented from 2018-19.'
http://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/SN06702
Wednesday, 8 February 2017
John Brackenbury and Alice Tether - enquiry
History of Nocton
I received a query last night from a lady researching her family tree - you may be interested in the content which I reproduce below, together with my reply.
From: Jacqui Stone
To: Geoff Hall
Dated: 07 January 2017
Time: 21.27hrs
Nocton Family Connection
Dear Geoff
I hope you don't mind me writing to you directly but I have tried to register on the MACLA family history website with no luck and also on your Blogspot page but ran into difficulties there too!
My family history research back to 1640 has revealed a strong connection with Nocton. A Google search recently took me to your Blogspot and in particular the entry on Thursday, 15th September 2011 entitled "Revelations of an Imp - Chapter 10" where there is mention of Alice Tether (1771-1811) and John Brackenbury (1771-1844) who are noted on my family tree (Alice being a Tether.
However their marriage is the only thing noted and there is no mention of any children although from another search it appears there were eight or nine). The accompanying information was interesting to me as well as the history of Nocton and the fact that the Tether family were tenants at Manor Farm.
I have a cousin who says that there is also a connection to Dunstan Pillar Farm (which I believe is now a B & B) but is unable to confirm this. I live in Gloucestershire and don't know the area at all (I hope to visit this year) but wonder if you have access to any more information on the Tether/Brackenbury family in Nocton (or elsewhere in Lincolnshire/further afield) or would know of someone who could assist me?
I look forward to hearing from you.
Kind regards
Jacqui Stone
From: Geoff Hall
To: Jacqui Stone
Dated: 08 January 2017
Time: 10.17hrs
Re: Nocton Family Connection
Dear Jacqui,
Thank you for your query and I don't mind you contacting me at all - indeed I am happy to try and assist. The MACLA website is an excellent resource, but unfortunately it is no longer maintained. I have been able to locate further information which I hope will be of interest. Please see the following and the enclosure too:
The Gregory Family of Leicestershire gives a useful breakdown of the family of John Brackenbury and Alice Tether. I'm sure you will have seen this with your online research, but if not I incorporate the web-link for you. It appears John and Alice were quite active in creating a family with nine children - Justina, Damaris, Edward, Ceres, Meres, Belinda, Giles, John and Edward.
Source: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ggpsfamilies/fam1279.html
I am aware of the existence of a photocopy of an old cross-stitch sampler by Mere Brackenbury, aged 14 dated 28th March 1837 [although the year is more likely to be 1817, as it appears Mere was born 2nd March 1803]
Source: Sheila Redshaw Collection (Scrap Book No. 26) - now in the possession of Nocton Parish Council [Chairman: Ian Goldsworthy] http://parishes.lincolnshire.gov.uk/Nocton/
I am pleased to be able to provide quite a bit of background information , as the family were heavily involved in providing the first formal education for the children of Nocton and surrounding villages.
"The autumn of 1793 saw the first beginnings of a regular School at Nocton. In that year John Brackenbury, of Gedney, a grandson of Sir Edward Brackenbury, Bart, of Raithby, co. Lincoln, having quarrelled with his father on the subject of the latter's second marriage, came to lodge at the Plough Inn - the present Wasp's Nest - at the head of Nocton Fen, and married Alice Tether, daughter of the tenant of Manor Farm. Brackenbury had been well educated; after the birth of his eldest child, Justina, he came to live at the Vicarage, by invitation of Dr. Willis, the curate, and started a private school there. Soon afterwards he moved into a house, converted from two cottages at the east end of the Town-street, and obtained leave from George Hobart - who on the 3rd of September, 1793, had succeeded his half-brother as Earl of Buckinghamshire, to build a School on the waste at his own expense, the materials being carted free by his neighbours."
Source: "Some Notes for a History of Nocton" by Kate Norgate and Maurice Henry Footman
[Reprinted from the Associated Architectural Societies' Reports and Papers, Vol. XXIV., Part II., by James Williamson, 290, High Street, Lincoln, (1900)]
There is even more information below:
Para 232
"In 1793 Nocton had its first regular school. This was principally the work of one man, John
Brackenbury, whose descendants are still to be found in the district. He was one of the grandsons of Sir Edward Brackenbury, the Baron of Raithby. His home was at Gedney where, after his father’s second marriage, and a bitter quarrel, he hurriedly left to remove himself from the sight of the stepmother of whom he so savagely disapproved.
He came to Nocton and went to lodge at the “Plough Inn”, a tavern that once occupied the site we now know as “Wasp’s Nest”. This was situated fairly close to the Car Dyke and, at the same time, the hill upon which the Old Priory had stood.
Para 233
Being by nature of a friendly disposition, he was not long in establishing himself at Nocton as a man who would be welcomed as a permanent inhabitant. There was no doubt he liked Nocton very much indeed, and there was no doubt that the inhabitants of Nocton liked him.
John Brackenbury had not been long settled in Nocton when he met and fell in love with Alice
Tether, the very attractive daughter of the tenant of the Manor Farm at Nocton. after a short
courtship he married her, and then, soon after their first baby was born, a daughter they christened Justina, the Brackenburys were invited by Dr Willis, the Nocton curate, to move from the fen and live in the vicarage.
There were no facilities open to the people of the village by which to educate their children at this particular time. There was, however, a great need and a great desire for such facilities. As Dr Willis pointed out to John Brackenbury, there were villages in which schools had been started by public spirited individuals who were not only dedicated to the advance of education, but were well qualified to teach the subjects upon which they sought to base that education.
Para 234
The idea was one that that John Brackenbury found exciting, and which his wife thought would be well rewarding. At least, all were in agreement upon the need for such a venture at Nocton. Moreover the project was one that interested George Hobart. Dr Willis had early recognised John Brackenbury’s natural aptitudes for taking upon himself the position of school-teacher at Nocton. He encouraged John to think about the prospects such an undertaking would leave open and to develop his ideas upon how best to put the project into operation.
Inspired by the idea, and helped by the curate, John very soon decided that he could best serve the community by offering to teach the village children. It not only provided him with a set purpose in life, it also gave him the means of following a profession he loved with profit. So, supported on the one side by an enthusiastic wife and on the other by the encouragement of his friend, the curate, John Brackenbury began the first school ever to be held at Nocton in one of (the) larger rooms of the vicarage that was made available for this purpose by Dr Willis.
Para 235
So gratifying was the response to John’s request for pupils that their number very soon increased to the point where the vicarage could not accommodate them all. When this happened the Brackenburys took a house at the east end of what was then called Town Street. To make these premises two cottages had been converted into a single house. It was large enough for his needs and, for a time, it made an ideal school.
And then children began to come into Nocton to attend the school from neighbouring villages, and once again the problem of finding adequate accommodation became of paramount importance. This time John Brackenbury made a personal appeal for help to the Lord of the Manor, the Honourable George Hobart. Being more than satisfied with the advance that was being made George Hobart gave John Brackenbury permission to build a new school in the waste land provided he did so at his own expense. Brackenbury never hesitated.
Para 236
He seized the opportunity with eager hands. There was not a man or woman in the village whose
interest in the progress of the school had not been stimulated by the now almost fanatical John Brackenbury. He had earned their respect even before he had started his school. Once it had become a reality he had fired their immediate imagination with his own great enthusiasm and they were prepared to help him in whatever way they could.
They carted, free of all charge, all the materials needed for the building of the school. They gave their labours freely in whatever direction they were needed whenever they were called upon to help. And so, in this way, there came to be erected at Nocton the very first building ever designed as a school, and its first schoolmaster, naturally, was John Brackenbury. It was, without any question of doubt, a glorious success.
Para 261
The retirement of John Brackenbury as the schoolmaster left no problem. That vacancy was very
adequately filled by his daughter, Justina, then the wife of Edward Scoley.
Para 262
It was about this time that the Lady Sarah came to an arrangement with Justina whereby all the children attending school paid a penny a week whilst she, the Lady Sarah, met the difference out of her own pocket.
Para 266
By this time the school that had been built by John Brackenbury was no longer big enough to
accommodate the number of pupils wanting to attend. Apart from this the building itself was
showing marked sense of deterioration. The Education Act of 1870 had established primary schools where there were no church schools, and this meant that the school at Nocton was now recognised as a primary school. This was the start of a national system of education. The Marquis, like his mother, took a keen interest in the school. He had the old school pulled down and, in 1869, built the school that still continues to be used at Nocton for the education of the village children."
Source: "The Lords of the Manor" http://nocton.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/lords-of-manor.html
Finally, you may like to know there is a gravestone in All Saints Church, Nocton - but unfortunately I do not have any further information on this:
Tether, Richard, (rest unreadable)
Source: http://www.interment.net/data/eng/lincoln/allsaints/
You may also like to know there are two excellent publications about Nocton:
19 High Street, Heighington, Lincoln, LN4 1RG
Tel: 01522 790009
Email: sales@tucann.co.uk
Website: www.tucann.co.uk
If you have difficulty sourcing these books (if you wish to make a purchase), Sue Morris can be contacted via email: noctonbooks@sjmtjm.myzen.co.uk
Hope this is of some use to you in your own research.
Kind regards,
Geoff
Footnote
I have managed to locate the headstone for Richard Tether in the churchyard and am planning to do a 'rubbing' to see if I can decipher further information inscribed upon it.
I received a query last night from a lady researching her family tree - you may be interested in the content which I reproduce below, together with my reply.
From: Jacqui Stone
To: Geoff Hall
Dated: 07 January 2017
Time: 21.27hrs
Nocton Family Connection
Dear Geoff
I hope you don't mind me writing to you directly but I have tried to register on the MACLA family history website with no luck and also on your Blogspot page but ran into difficulties there too!
My family history research back to 1640 has revealed a strong connection with Nocton. A Google search recently took me to your Blogspot and in particular the entry on Thursday, 15th September 2011 entitled "Revelations of an Imp - Chapter 10" where there is mention of Alice Tether (1771-1811) and John Brackenbury (1771-1844) who are noted on my family tree (Alice being a Tether.
However their marriage is the only thing noted and there is no mention of any children although from another search it appears there were eight or nine). The accompanying information was interesting to me as well as the history of Nocton and the fact that the Tether family were tenants at Manor Farm.
I have a cousin who says that there is also a connection to Dunstan Pillar Farm (which I believe is now a B & B) but is unable to confirm this. I live in Gloucestershire and don't know the area at all (I hope to visit this year) but wonder if you have access to any more information on the Tether/Brackenbury family in Nocton (or elsewhere in Lincolnshire/further afield) or would know of someone who could assist me?
I look forward to hearing from you.
Kind regards
Jacqui Stone
From: Geoff Hall
To: Jacqui Stone
Dated: 08 January 2017
Time: 10.17hrs
Re: Nocton Family Connection
Dear Jacqui,
Thank you for your query and I don't mind you contacting me at all - indeed I am happy to try and assist. The MACLA website is an excellent resource, but unfortunately it is no longer maintained. I have been able to locate further information which I hope will be of interest. Please see the following and the enclosure too:
The Gregory Family of Leicestershire gives a useful breakdown of the family of John Brackenbury and Alice Tether. I'm sure you will have seen this with your online research, but if not I incorporate the web-link for you. It appears John and Alice were quite active in creating a family with nine children - Justina, Damaris, Edward, Ceres, Meres, Belinda, Giles, John and Edward.
Source: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ggpsfamilies/fam1279.html
I am aware of the existence of a photocopy of an old cross-stitch sampler by Mere Brackenbury, aged 14 dated 28th March 1837 [although the year is more likely to be 1817, as it appears Mere was born 2nd March 1803]
Source: Sheila Redshaw Collection (Scrap Book No. 26) - now in the possession of Nocton Parish Council [Chairman: Ian Goldsworthy] http://parishes.lincolnshire.gov.uk/Nocton/
I am pleased to be able to provide quite a bit of background information , as the family were heavily involved in providing the first formal education for the children of Nocton and surrounding villages.
"The autumn of 1793 saw the first beginnings of a regular School at Nocton. In that year John Brackenbury, of Gedney, a grandson of Sir Edward Brackenbury, Bart, of Raithby, co. Lincoln, having quarrelled with his father on the subject of the latter's second marriage, came to lodge at the Plough Inn - the present Wasp's Nest - at the head of Nocton Fen, and married Alice Tether, daughter of the tenant of Manor Farm. Brackenbury had been well educated; after the birth of his eldest child, Justina, he came to live at the Vicarage, by invitation of Dr. Willis, the curate, and started a private school there. Soon afterwards he moved into a house, converted from two cottages at the east end of the Town-street, and obtained leave from George Hobart - who on the 3rd of September, 1793, had succeeded his half-brother as Earl of Buckinghamshire, to build a School on the waste at his own expense, the materials being carted free by his neighbours."
Source: "Some Notes for a History of Nocton" by Kate Norgate and Maurice Henry Footman
[Reprinted from the Associated Architectural Societies' Reports and Papers, Vol. XXIV., Part II., by James Williamson, 290, High Street, Lincoln, (1900)]
There is even more information below:
Para 232
"In 1793 Nocton had its first regular school. This was principally the work of one man, John
Brackenbury, whose descendants are still to be found in the district. He was one of the grandsons of Sir Edward Brackenbury, the Baron of Raithby. His home was at Gedney where, after his father’s second marriage, and a bitter quarrel, he hurriedly left to remove himself from the sight of the stepmother of whom he so savagely disapproved.
He came to Nocton and went to lodge at the “Plough Inn”, a tavern that once occupied the site we now know as “Wasp’s Nest”. This was situated fairly close to the Car Dyke and, at the same time, the hill upon which the Old Priory had stood.
Para 233
Being by nature of a friendly disposition, he was not long in establishing himself at Nocton as a man who would be welcomed as a permanent inhabitant. There was no doubt he liked Nocton very much indeed, and there was no doubt that the inhabitants of Nocton liked him.
John Brackenbury had not been long settled in Nocton when he met and fell in love with Alice
Tether, the very attractive daughter of the tenant of the Manor Farm at Nocton. after a short
courtship he married her, and then, soon after their first baby was born, a daughter they christened Justina, the Brackenburys were invited by Dr Willis, the Nocton curate, to move from the fen and live in the vicarage.
There were no facilities open to the people of the village by which to educate their children at this particular time. There was, however, a great need and a great desire for such facilities. As Dr Willis pointed out to John Brackenbury, there were villages in which schools had been started by public spirited individuals who were not only dedicated to the advance of education, but were well qualified to teach the subjects upon which they sought to base that education.
Para 234
The idea was one that that John Brackenbury found exciting, and which his wife thought would be well rewarding. At least, all were in agreement upon the need for such a venture at Nocton. Moreover the project was one that interested George Hobart. Dr Willis had early recognised John Brackenbury’s natural aptitudes for taking upon himself the position of school-teacher at Nocton. He encouraged John to think about the prospects such an undertaking would leave open and to develop his ideas upon how best to put the project into operation.
Inspired by the idea, and helped by the curate, John very soon decided that he could best serve the community by offering to teach the village children. It not only provided him with a set purpose in life, it also gave him the means of following a profession he loved with profit. So, supported on the one side by an enthusiastic wife and on the other by the encouragement of his friend, the curate, John Brackenbury began the first school ever to be held at Nocton in one of (the) larger rooms of the vicarage that was made available for this purpose by Dr Willis.
Para 235
So gratifying was the response to John’s request for pupils that their number very soon increased to the point where the vicarage could not accommodate them all. When this happened the Brackenburys took a house at the east end of what was then called Town Street. To make these premises two cottages had been converted into a single house. It was large enough for his needs and, for a time, it made an ideal school.
And then children began to come into Nocton to attend the school from neighbouring villages, and once again the problem of finding adequate accommodation became of paramount importance. This time John Brackenbury made a personal appeal for help to the Lord of the Manor, the Honourable George Hobart. Being more than satisfied with the advance that was being made George Hobart gave John Brackenbury permission to build a new school in the waste land provided he did so at his own expense. Brackenbury never hesitated.
Para 236
He seized the opportunity with eager hands. There was not a man or woman in the village whose
interest in the progress of the school had not been stimulated by the now almost fanatical John Brackenbury. He had earned their respect even before he had started his school. Once it had become a reality he had fired their immediate imagination with his own great enthusiasm and they were prepared to help him in whatever way they could.
They carted, free of all charge, all the materials needed for the building of the school. They gave their labours freely in whatever direction they were needed whenever they were called upon to help. And so, in this way, there came to be erected at Nocton the very first building ever designed as a school, and its first schoolmaster, naturally, was John Brackenbury. It was, without any question of doubt, a glorious success.
Para 261
The retirement of John Brackenbury as the schoolmaster left no problem. That vacancy was very
adequately filled by his daughter, Justina, then the wife of Edward Scoley.
Para 262
It was about this time that the Lady Sarah came to an arrangement with Justina whereby all the children attending school paid a penny a week whilst she, the Lady Sarah, met the difference out of her own pocket.
Para 266
By this time the school that had been built by John Brackenbury was no longer big enough to
accommodate the number of pupils wanting to attend. Apart from this the building itself was
showing marked sense of deterioration. The Education Act of 1870 had established primary schools where there were no church schools, and this meant that the school at Nocton was now recognised as a primary school. This was the start of a national system of education. The Marquis, like his mother, took a keen interest in the school. He had the old school pulled down and, in 1869, built the school that still continues to be used at Nocton for the education of the village children."
Source: "The Lords of the Manor" http://nocton.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/lords-of-manor.html
Finally, you may like to know there is a gravestone in All Saints Church, Nocton - but unfortunately I do not have any further information on this:
Tether, Richard, (rest unreadable)
Source: http://www.interment.net/data/eng/lincoln/allsaints/
You may also like to know there are two excellent publications about Nocton:
- Nocton: The Last Years of an Estate Village - Volume 1 Collected by Sheila Redshaw and Compiled by Sue Morris [ISBN 9781873257807]
- Nocton: The Last Years of an Estate Village - Volume 2 Presented by Sue Morris [ISBN 9781907516139]
19 High Street, Heighington, Lincoln, LN4 1RG
Tel: 01522 790009
Email: sales@tucann.co.uk
Website: www.tucann.co.uk
If you have difficulty sourcing these books (if you wish to make a purchase), Sue Morris can be contacted via email: noctonbooks@sjmtjm.myzen.co.uk
Hope this is of some use to you in your own research.
Kind regards,
Geoff
Footnote
I have managed to locate the headstone for Richard Tether in the churchyard and am planning to do a 'rubbing' to see if I can decipher further information inscribed upon it.
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| Richard TETHER - All Saints Church, Nocton |
My 'rubbing' has uncovered the following details:
In Affectionate Remembrance
Richard Tether
Who Died
December 15 1889
Aged 91 Years
Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age
Like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season
Friday, 9 December 2016
Friday, 18 November 2016
Tuesday, 1 November 2016
Thursday, 11 August 2016
Tuesday, 5 July 2016
Wednesday, 25 May 2016
Thursday, 3 March 2016
Planning Application - The Green
Nocton Primary School
16/0248/CCC
Remove existing single glazed panes from 19nr stone window frames and 10nr timber window frames and replace with slimline insulated double glazed units
Nocton County Primary School, The Green, Nocton, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN4 2BJ
Application Received Date: Tue 01 Mar 2016
Application Validated Date: Tue 01 Mar 2016
Target Determination Date: Tue 15 Mar 2016
Determination Deadline: Tue 22 Mar 2016
Case Officer: Tony Sargent
Applicant Name: Lincolnshire County Council - Planning
View the application here.
16/0248/CCC
Remove existing single glazed panes from 19nr stone window frames and 10nr timber window frames and replace with slimline insulated double glazed units
Nocton County Primary School, The Green, Nocton, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN4 2BJ
Application Received Date: Tue 01 Mar 2016
Application Validated Date: Tue 01 Mar 2016
Target Determination Date: Tue 15 Mar 2016
Determination Deadline: Tue 22 Mar 2016
Case Officer: Tony Sargent
Applicant Name: Lincolnshire County Council - Planning
View the application here.
Sunday, 29 November 2015
Thursday, 26 November 2015
Tuesday, 3 November 2015
Wednesday, 14 October 2015
Nocton Community Primary School
Pre Reception Open Sessions
Please see the dates for the three open sessions for parents of prospective pupils due to start school in September 2016:
Please see the dates for the three open sessions for parents of prospective pupils due to start school in September 2016:
- 21st October
- 18th November
- 1st December
Monday, 27 April 2015
Red Phone Box
School Lane
During my short tenure on the Parish Council, I remember there being some informal discussion about the phone box located on School Lane, wondering how and when the conventional red box had been replaced with its more modern version.
All Saints Church & Nocton School
Given that Nocton has a strong connection with the Scott Family - Sir Giles Gilbert Scott's grandfather was the architect who designed Nocton School and also our local All Saints Church - it would be nice if an old red box could somehow replace the more modern version, as an item more in keeping with Nocton's history.
The yard for red phone boxes that ring no more
'The red telephone box is a much-cherished symbol of Britishness.'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32315904
List of works by Sir George Gilbert Scott, R.A.
https://www.flickr.com/groups/gilbertscott/discuss/72157602742273165/
During my short tenure on the Parish Council, I remember there being some informal discussion about the phone box located on School Lane, wondering how and when the conventional red box had been replaced with its more modern version.
The designer of the red phone box was:
- Sir Giles Gilbert Scott (1880-1960) designed the GPO's K2 and K6 - the most famous models of phone box
- The design was classical, and the domed roof is thought to have been influenced by the tomb of Sir John Soane in St Pancras Old Church, near Kings Cross in London
- Born to an architectural dynasty (his grandfather designed the Albert Memorial; his father masterminded Dulwich College), Gilbert Scott was also responsible for buildings such as Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, Battersea power station and Bankside power station - now the Tate Modern
- Gilbert Scott's prototype design for the phone box can be found under the left arch at the entrance to the Royal Academy in London
All Saints Church & Nocton School
Given that Nocton has a strong connection with the Scott Family - Sir Giles Gilbert Scott's grandfather was the architect who designed Nocton School and also our local All Saints Church - it would be nice if an old red box could somehow replace the more modern version, as an item more in keeping with Nocton's history.
The yard for red phone boxes that ring no more
'The red telephone box is a much-cherished symbol of Britishness.'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32315904
List of works by Sir George Gilbert Scott, R.A.
https://www.flickr.com/groups/gilbertscott/discuss/72157602742273165/
Thursday, 16 April 2015
Friday, 27 February 2015
Lost shoe
Found - near The Green / Nocton Primary School
Why is there always one shoe... never two?
My wife brought this ladies shoe to my notice on Wednesday. It was placed on the wall alongside the entrance to 'Nutwood' and 'Abbots Grange' - is it yours?
Judging by the weather yesterday, if it has not been claimed by now, it will be a little damp!!
Footnote:
I often wonder at the ability of women to walk around in high heels. During the early seventies when David Bowie was performing under his Ziggy Stardust persona... I remember strutting my stuff around the Manchester clubs wearing a pair of very high platform boots following the 'fashion'... as one used to do. Coming out of a sticky-floored Bier Keller one Saturday evening, quite worse for wear, I tripped over the kerb and promptly broke the five-inch heel off one of my boots. Getting home during the early hours provided great hilarity to my mates and huge embarrassment to myself. Suffice to say I have worn 'flats' ever since!!
Why is there always one shoe... never two?
My wife brought this ladies shoe to my notice on Wednesday. It was placed on the wall alongside the entrance to 'Nutwood' and 'Abbots Grange' - is it yours?
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| Found - near The Green |
Footnote:
I often wonder at the ability of women to walk around in high heels. During the early seventies when David Bowie was performing under his Ziggy Stardust persona... I remember strutting my stuff around the Manchester clubs wearing a pair of very high platform boots following the 'fashion'... as one used to do. Coming out of a sticky-floored Bier Keller one Saturday evening, quite worse for wear, I tripped over the kerb and promptly broke the five-inch heel off one of my boots. Getting home during the early hours provided great hilarity to my mates and huge embarrassment to myself. Suffice to say I have worn 'flats' ever since!!
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