Church Car Park, The Common, Tuesday 7 April 11am-1.30pm
and Wednesday 22 April 1pm-3pm

Services offered are crime and accident reporting, cloned credit cards, lost/found property, crime prevention advice, reports of abandoned vehicles, unoccupied premises notifications, advice on criminal law, recruiting enquiries – and most other matters that people would visit a police station for.
Come and meet our Police Community Support Officer, David Alexander, who will usually be on duty.

Jacquin the Box

Drop-in Fun Music, Drama and Fitness Sessions for babies from
birth through to 6 years of age!

Jacquin the Box Music for 0 to 4s 1.45pm to 2.30pm
Fun drop-in musical sessions for 0 to 4 years of age all in the same session so whole families can participate together!! Action songs and rhymes with props, puppets and percussion instruments, dancing and musical movement!

Sporty Tots walking to 4 years
2.45pm to 3.30pm
These new sessions are in addition to and completely different from the 0 to 4 musical sessions already established by Jacqui and combine even livelier activities for raring-to-go toddlers and pre-schoolers!
Set to a background of up-beat, stimulating music and incorporating rigorous action songs, dances and marching to actively encourage co-ordination whilst letting off steam!
Here you will find balls, bubbles, scarves, batons, hoops, bean bags and parachute games to name but a few of the many versatile props. Learn letters and numbers through musical play!
Drop-in Drama and Creative Musical Fun Sessions
For ages 2 and a half up to 6 years. 3.45pm to 4.45pm
Hour long sessions where you will find party style fun for boys and girls! Dressing up and role play. Weekly themed stories and songs and music from popular to classical and from theatre and film.
Make-believe fantasy fun to encourage confidence and interaction!!
All the above Classes run every Wednesday including school holidays at Chipperfield Village Hall.
Call 01296 589335 / 07948371615
Email:jacquitomlin@aol.com www.jacqinthebox.com

Chipperfield Within Living Memory Village Hall Centenary 1909-2009

A Good Night Out in the Village Institute in February 1917

There was life in Chipperfield before television and even before the era of crystal radio sets. People made their own entertainment and were prepared to stand up and sing, dance and recite particularly to raise funds for a wide variety of organisations. A leading light in the world of village entertainment was E. J. Waterhouse, who established the local builders business in 1905. Ernest Waterhouse was master of ceremonies at many socials and dances held in the Institute.
On this occasion in February 1917, it was recorded in the Hemel Hempstead Gazette that the songs sung at this social evening by Mr Waterhouse and his sister-in-law Miss Bunyan were much enjoyed by the audience and that Mrs Springs recitation was successful as usual. Mr Waterhouse, aged 36, who lived at Holly Cottage in Kings Lane, sang a song entitled ‘Soap and then a duet ‘If you were the only girl in the world with Miss Duffield. How some of us would squirm in our seats if presented with such entertainment nowadays.
Miss Kitty Bunyan, aged 23, who by 1945 had become choir mistress and assistant organist at St Pauls, performed a dialogue ‘Private Tomas Tibetts with Miss Bellingham. On a lighter note Mr Will Bunyan, aged 33, who ran the grocers shop on the corner of the Two Brewers, sang ‘The Ould Sidecar and Mr E Puddephatt sang ‘Mary Jane is making ammunition, which would have been topical during the First World War.
The programme continued with dancing and Mr Waterhouse was MC. The Vicar Rev A.C. Jeffries proposed a vote of thanks to Mr and Mrs Hudson (Headmaster and his teacher wife, who lived in Rosecot, the left-hand section of the Two Brewers) and congratulated them on a successful evening which had raised £8. 10s. for a teachers charity.
Mary Nobbs