Haxey - Heritage in the Isle of Axholme

Haxey Parish.
Take part in theses  events to help celebrate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee 

    Decorated House                             Royal Scarecrow                               Entry Form

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Free concert for Haxey Pre-School 4 July

Haxey to be illuminated for the Jubilee

Thanks to a generous grant from Haxey Parish Council the Christmas lights will be converted to red white & blue & extended up Church Street to include Nicholas House for the Bank Holiday

Haxey Parish Jubilee Newsletter

For info/dates/times of all the Jubilee events taking place in the Parish

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downloadable copy.

 

Applause for The Queen

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The Parish of Haxey is hoping that residents will join together on Thursday 2nd June 2022 to hold an applause to celebrate the remarkable 70th year of Queen Elizabeth II on the throne (similar to the NHS applause).  

At 7pm all residents are being asked to stand outside their front doors for a 2 minute applause followed by 3 cheers.  It would be a fantastic achievement if streets and neighbours could work together to create an atmosphere and plan to do this together.

Old Haxey tradition revived

After being in abeyance since 2011, the old tradition of electing the Haxey Townsmen & the letting of the meres  took place again on Easter Monday.

The meres appear to be left over parts of what was common land before enclosure in the late 18C. Unlike the Parish land, they have been managed by local people known as Mere Men (often referred to as Townsmen) and now Mere Women. The mere persons are elected informally from anyone who attends mere lettings, they manage the letting and general running of the meres until a meeting elects someone new. 
The Meres are often small and have footpaths upon them leaving them having no farming value; some are bigger and have some financial value and can be used in a small-scale way.

The Haxey Townsmen are elected annually, while at Westwoodside, where the  tradition has continued, they are elected every three years, and the letting is carried out by the traditional bidding by the pin & candle method, the first mere letting took place in the 1830’s.This year's event took place in the Kings.

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Is the Duke Sold??   If so, to who & what's the future??

 

Mystery surrounds the future of the building, the for sale boards are down, tons of banked soil have been removed from the rear of the site, along with the hedge being trimmed and potential pedestrian access made through on to Northside, along with trailers parked at the building & work being undertaken inside. Rumour has  it that someone local is the new owner & it will continue as a pub. Surely after all the trials & tribulation of the last three years or so, it would be good, if Haxey knew what the future of this prominent building was to be?

Whoever is/are the owner/owners of the Duke  William, (if it has been actually sold, maybe not, why does it have to be  such a mystery), why was it necessary to totally destroy an ancient hedgerow??

Haxey To Light up for the Queens Platinum Jubilee

At the recent  We Live Here - Haxey meeting, it was agreed to leave the Christmas lights up for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee in June and to remove the coloured lights and replace with red, white and blue lights.  It was also agreed to seek financial support for additional lights for the public toilets, Greenhill and Nicholas House to be in place for the June.  

Updates

Haxey Christmas Lights

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With the £847 awarded to us from the CO-OP as community Champions, we extended & improved the Christmas lights again last year. In addition to last years  lights, newly decorated were, Stanholme Guest House, Durdys Accountants, The old Grice & Hunter building, Sunspot Beauty & the Doctors Surgery. This year we will be including the Pinfold, Greenhill  & hopefully Nicholas House trees.

Haxey Hood Archive digitization

Heritage/Exhibition space

With the help of the country's leading folklorist Doc Rowe, who has been visiting the Hood since the 1970's, we want digitize & have a permanent display of some of his Haxey Hood collection, along with other locally sourced material. Since visiting Doc in the past few weeks and getting his co-operation to copy his video/film collection the project has taken a new turn.

Coun Alan Holgate, at a recent Parish Council meeting, raised the prospect of the village having a permanent exhibition/Heritage display. Subsequently, a meeting was held with the Memorial Hall Committee with a view to having such a display in the Hood room at the hall, an agreement was reached in principal to take the idea forward. Further meetings

are to be held to form a working party with We Live Here - Haxey, Haxey PC & the Hall Committee & Haxey &  Westwoodside Heritage Society, the first meeting will take place towards the end of February.