The latest Hall news update from Rob:
 
Last Saturday (August 7th) saw the third annual Cider Festival held at the Gerrard Arms in Colyton. Several members of the Umborne Valley manned the door & enjoyed an afternoon of competition as 29 different ciders were judged to produce a trophy winner, the judge was noted to be grinning & staggering at the end ! All 23 Cider makers were from an area bounded by Chideock in the east, Stockland to the north & Sidbury to the west. The resulting range of …

The “Steam-up” is an annual event held early summer in the grounds of Liz and Tony Gosling’s house, Penventon, in Shute. This is a whole family occasion and the great attraction is the opportunity to have a ride on Tony’s miniature steam train as it huffs and puffs around the immaculate gardens of the house. Liz provides her famous Devon cream teas. There is a raffle and ice cream and cakes are also on sale. Children can  be amused with Rob’s giant “noughts and crosses” and “splat the rat”. This year, …

If you click on any of the maps and Lot details, they will appear in a larger format on a separate page. You can enlarge it again by clicking once more on that page (if it has a + sign).
The following maps and Lot details are from the Sale by Auction of the Shute Estate in 1929:

The following  maps are dated 1904:
Seaton Junction

East of Deer Park

Shute Deer Park

southeast of Little Umborne

Shute Marsh

south of Pottlelake to Parehayne

Big Umborne to Parkhayne

Patches to Lower Watchcombe

 
Lexhayne Lane north of Railway

 
 
Axminster to Exeter. road map. …

I can’t wait – the garden needs a bit of rain…
 
This year’s Summer Barbecue took place on:
Sunday  18th  July  at 6.00pm      at:
Little Yardbury – in the garden of Rob & Fran Summers.
If you are not sure where Little Yardbury is, you can find it close to the T Junction 2 miles north of Colyton called Three Sycamores. Parking in the field.
Fun and games – such as giant Noughts & Crosses, Splat the Rat etc.
There was a bar, a barbecue a raffle and lots of fun in the glorious summer sunshine – see …

It would be very interesting to create an album of old photos of the hall, both inside and outside.
This photograph belonged to the late Joan Dommett. Can anyone name any person on the photo? Can it be dated?

If you have any old photos, please let us have them. They can be scanned, put on the website and returned to you – with our thanks.
In case you have already forgotten what the old hall looked like:

Over the last 13 years or so, we have held a “theme night” once or twice a year. Themes have ranged from nights related to different countries to a variety of other themes:
        
Tramps Night (1999)    
Soup and Cider Night(25th November 2000)
TV Dinners (17th March 2001)               
Heroes (24th November 2001)    
Tramps Night again (29th March 2003)
Posh Night again (8th May 2004)                       
  
French Night (November 1997)
 

Scrumpy Night (March 1998)

 
Posh Night  (23rd March 2002)

 
Caribbean Night (29th November 2003)

Italian Night (20th November 2004)

 
Medieval Night (14th May 2005)
 

 
School Dinners (25th March 2006)
 
  
  
 
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A Night at the Oscars (24th March 2007) 
      
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Country …

Yesterday, as most of you know and indeed as most of you were there at the hall, we had our annual event called the Umborne Ug. This is a demanding 10k race which attracted 54 runners on a day of glorious sunshine.The race was run by Garry Perratt in a new record time of 41.00 minutes. Garry has helped us with the Ug and other things like the Grizzly marshalling over the years so his triumph was well received. The first lady home was Honiton’s Judy Davey. The winners received …

Umborne Ug 10k
For all of you over the age of 16, if you have not done it before, the Umborne Ug is a mostly off road 10k run amongst stunningly beautiful but hilly scenery, starting and finishing at Umborne Village Hall. The 10k starts at 11.00am. There is also a 4 mile walk mostly around the same course starting at 10.00am. There is also a 2.6k Fun Run (flat and mostly on road) at 11.10am. for younger runners aged 8-15 plus any adults who wish to take some exercise. Prizes …

Painting of the windows ( 3 coats of Sadolin) is now well under way and the plaster board is up inside, ready for the plasterers to come in and finish off. Then the electrics can be installed. Rob is so committed to painting windows that he spent his 51st birthday with paint brush in hand.

 
Maybe we should leave the plasterboard pink?!! Again this week the weather has been in our favour, long may it last.
Thanks again to everyone for helping with so many jobs over the last few weeks