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The Craft of Lace-Making in Olney
is very much alive and well
Please send your entries in by the 15th of the month
REMEMBER: Put a stamp on the envelope and don’t forget to put your name and address on your entry!
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Weather Wordsearch
G Rain is liquid precipitation in the form of water drops. Drops with a diameter of less that half a millimetre are known as drizzle.
G There are three general types of rain: orographic, frontal and convective. Convective rain is referred to as showers. Showers
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It was the Flemish Protestants who brought lace-making to England during the 1560s. Many of these immigrants were lace-makers and as they moved out of the overcrowded ports they began to settle into areas now regarded as the historic centres for the craft of lace-making. In the county of Buckinghamshire these immigrants settled in Newport Pagnell, Buckingham and of course Olney.
The immigrant lace-makers settled in the many courts or alleyways off the High Street in Olney. These were the poorest quarters of town at that time. During the following decade the Huguenots fled France and a great many French lace-makers also settled in this area.
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Life was difficult for the 17th and 18th Century lace-maker and so it seems surprising that the sole industry of hundreds of villages in this area was making lace. Nevertheless, the lace industry grew as the immigrant lace- makers taught the locals how to make lace. To support the lace trade, the local trades people such as the butchers and bakers began to supply the lace-makers with materials to work with. Most expensive was the imported cotton and linen thread. But most materials could be found locally: the pillow stuffed with straw, the pins, the horse or pillow stand made of wood and the bone and wooden bobbins. These suppliers would then buy back the finished lace from the lace-maker and sell it for good profits in London. Many such dealers became so rich in the 18th Century that they refaced their homes rather grandly with stone.
Lace is still made in Olney today by a thriving Lace Circle and we want to put Olney more visibly on the lace-making map by demonstrating the craft publicly in August. Every day during the second week in August, members of the Olney Lace Circle will be demonstrating the craft. They can be seen in Rose Court (weather permitting) from 10.30am – 4.00 pm.
Come and have a look and perhaps have a go. K Visit our Website at www.olneylacecircle.co.uk
Win £5 in our SUDOKU challenge
The first 4 correct entries will get a fiver each...
Last month’s SUDOKU £5 winners: Richard Woods, Olney; Michael Burden, Newport Pagnell; Tom Winton, Newport Pagnell; Jamie Bashford, Newport Pagnell
The winner of the Gordon Barker signed limited edition print ‘Sunday Cricket’ is Lindsey Wolstencroft of Olney.
Thank you to everyone who entered the competition.
generally last for less than one hour.
Find these words: FRONT
RAIN FLOOD
CLOUD PRECIPITATION CONVECTION OROGRAPHIC RELIEF FRONTAL FRONTAL CONVECTIVE MONSOON SHOWERS DOWNPOUR LIGHT
HEAVY MODERATE DRIZZLE HEAVY
CIRRUS POURS CUMULUS MIST
STRATUS RAINDROP CIRRUS DROPLET NIMBUS CYCLONIC
WATER
COUD
DROPLET TROPICAL INLAND DEWPOINT COASTAL SHELTER DROUGHT
DUST
DROPLET CLOUDINESS CONDENSATION HUMIDIFICATION COOLING
Last month’s Wordsearch winners: £10 to Benjamin Minter, Olney; £5 to Charleigh Dorrill, North Crawley;
£5 to John & Rhiannon Griffiths, Olney
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