Facilities, local groups, parish council and business information for the village of Timsbury, near Bath
The ROYAL BRITISH LEGION will commemorating its 100th Anniversary all over the Country this Saturday the 15th May. Timsbury Branch will be holding a small service at the Village War Memorial at 0900hrs were we will be laying a 100th anniversary wreath and parading the Standard. The service will be conducted by the Reverend Martin Blewitt and Barry Sewell Chairman of Timsbury Branch, everyone is welcome, observing the social distancing rule.
The great Christmas Tree is in the Miners Garden in Rectory Lane, with a wonderful angel on top, for all to enjoy.
Hot air balloons launched from the Recreation field on 30th August and filled the sky with any exciting view.
A new pet shop called Canine Craze has opened in South Road in what was the hairdressers. This is a welcomed new service that pet owners can enjoy. It is run by locals Emma and Liam who also provide dog walking and pet sitting
services.
“Canine Craze was formed in 2019 and is a family run business owned by Liam and Emma Craze. Emma started running the dog walking and pet sitting in 2016 when she was looking for a new career after many years in the Horse Racing industry. What started as a hobby, soon became a successful business and continued to expand resulting in Liam joining the company in 2017.
Our priority is to ensure a safe, fun environment for all animals under our care which can range from exploring the countryside with dogs to cuddling up on the sofa with cats. To us, a house is not a home without a pet. It was on a visit to Crufts in 2019 that we stumbled across a Natural Treat stall and thought we would bring some home for our dog Pierre to sample. He absolutely loved them, and after some further research we found them to be full of goodness with multiple health benefits. Pierre’s dental hygiene improved dramatically and as many are low in fat, he was pleased to hear he
could have plenty more treats without putting on weight!
We decided to start selling them to our dog walking customers on a small scale as we wanted to help promote a healthy lifestyle for our favourite work colleagues! They have proved to be a hit and become very popular resulting in us expanding to sell online and move into the Old Hairdressers on South Road where our new shop is based. We are passionate about promoting a healthy lifestyle for all pets, and we believe their diet is the best place to start. All of our products are 100%
natural and are free of any chemicals and nasty additives.
We also have a keen interest in reducing plastic waste and the impact it has on the environment, which is why we are trying to encourage customers to bring along their own bags / containers to refill with the goodies from our shop (an airtight container is recommended for the dog treats as they have a strong smell which doesn’t agree well with the human nose).
Our shop is dog-friendly so please bring them along with you if you visit.
We have a lot of ideas to try and bring the community together including social walks from the shop on weekends and talks from a variety of Dog Trainers and behaviourists.
We look forward to meeting you and your furry family. For anyone unable to visit our shop, please give us a call as we offer free delivery to residents of Timsbury or we have a click & collect option on our website.”
The 2020 Timsbury Scarecrow Trail, organised by St Mary’s Church, took place on Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th July. A gallery of scarecrows is here.
“On behalf of Timsbury Royal British Legion I would like to thank all those in Timsbury who attended the 2mins Silence in the morning at the Memorial.
Also it was great to see so many of you out having tea parties, clapping and cheering as we paraded around the village in the afternoon, in particular The Cheshire Home well done to the staff for getting everyone outside in their wheelchairs, fantastic! Thankyou to those who supplied us with food and drink on route aswell, we needed it.
I would also like to thank William Berttram for driving around his WWII American Jeep, (the jeep is a Normandy veteran) which at one point we did’nt think it was going to make it, as we had to push start it, amazing! With the jeeps own air raid siren and music box in the back provided by Dan my next door neighbour. Thankyou to Danny who played a few old wartime songs on his trumpet and Gordon Whitton who joined us driving his British Army landrover as we went around Bloomfield, brilliant! Also Barry Sewell the RBL Branch Chairman in full Navy uniform, who persevered and made it all the way round walking with me, hope you have recovered Barry.
Again I would like to thank everyone for making this a very special and memorable day in our Village History.”
All celebrations that were planned throughout the country for this day sadly had to be cancelled due to the Coronavirus. However, the Royal British Legion Somerset have asked all Branches to parade their Standard in their communities on the 8th May at 1100hrs to observe the two minutes silence. To join in with this Chris Fiddes the Standard Bearer along with Barry Sewell the Timsbury RBL Branch Chairman will be on parade at the Memorial at 1100hrs in Newmans Lane.
Anyone who wishes to come along is welcome, but must observe the 2m social distancing rules.
Also on the day it would be great to see everyone in Timsbury holding their own celebration with their family, in your house or garden. I’m sure you can think of lots of idea’s for this, Flying the Union Jack, red, white & blue bunting, fancy dress party, food, dancing, singing or just music all with a military theme! Maybe we could have a competition to see who has the best decorated front window or garden in Timsbury?
Myself and Barry Sewell in our old uniforms and William Bertram in his WWII jeep will parade around the village starting at 1600hours from Timsbury Royal British Legion. We will be waving and cheering! and hoping to see everyone celebrating this very special and important event in our history.
Starting 3 May 2020, some journeys on bus service 768 will run via Writhlington to restore a limited daytime service to
the Manor Park and Frome Road areas on Mondays to Fridays (not Public Holidays).
There will be other minor changes to the timetable.
The full timetable can be downloaded here.
There will be no printed Timsbury Letters until further notice as a result of the Coronavirus lockdown.
Instead you can be emailed a shorter eNewsletter with the most important news if you register for it on the right of the page.
You can see previous Timsbury Letters here.
9th April 2020
The Parish Council realise it is so hard for many residents but so pleased and thankful to everyone in Timsbury for showing the determination, compassion and organising skills to support each other in these challenging, unique, and for many frightening, times.
It is great to hear the ‘clapping’ for key workers across the Parish on Thursdays at 8pm. That includes our thanks to the teaching and other staff at St Mary’s School, looking after our key workers children, and the local staff of our Pharmacy and our Doctors. We are so lucky to have their hard work and commitment to support our local community.
Timsbury churches were amazingly quick in setting up a network of volunteers to get shopping for isolating residents, with a dedicated team for medication delivery, who have been specially trained by the Pharmacy.
The Teddy Bear and Rainbow spotting trails are a lovely diversion on our daily exercise time. Thanks to everyone who has taken and intend to take part. As these walks are becoming part of life the ‘Timsbury Walks’ books have had a new rush of interest bringing variety to their lives – you can buy them in Health & More in the High Street.
An update of what is happening and available locally is shown on the Coronavirus village webpage here: timsbury.org.uk/coronavirus.
We are worried that some vulnerable residents may miss out on the various efforts of the Government, B&NES Council Compassionate Community scheme and local support. We will do what we can, with the help of others to fill any gaps as we find them. Please make us aware of any situation that you think we need to know about and we will help if we can.
The Parish Council will consider providing financial or support to groups, businesses or individuals to do things that support others in the parish during, and as a result of, the coronavirus outbreak, if it falls within its reserves, the law allows it, and where other resources are not available e.g. from the various Government schemes.
We are all having to cope and adapt, and we will need ideas for recovery when we come out of the lockdown. We all need to think about making a special effort to support our local businesses and groups when they open again to keep them going, especially those who have tried to carry on supporting us – the local butchers, bakers and veg growers etc. who have carried on providing and also set up home deliveries.
Meanwhile, the Parish Council will make urgent or necessary decisions remotely, as we are affected by isolation rules the same as everyone else. We are continuing to pay our staff and the contractors who regularly provide our services to support them and to ensure continuity of services in the long term. The legally required Annual Parish Meeting in April, the Parish Council’s own annual meeting in May and our financial audit processes are postponed by Government.
If you have any ideas or concerns please contact the Parish Council via the Clerk here.
From the Chairman on behalf of the whole Parish Council.