Get documents about "Cynthia Beeley 1927-2009 - Mid Cheshire Bridleways
Document Sample
Newsletter August 2009
Dates for your diary:
Quiz night 18th Sept Little Budworth AGM 28th Jan The Three
Village Hall 7.30 for 8pm Greyhounds Allostock
Skittle Night and Supper 14th Nov Dance with Supper 20th March
The Bickerton Poacher 7pm Acton Bridge Village Hall
Christmas meal 8th Jan 2010 Tickets and further information from
The Millpool 7.30 for 8pm open to Dianne Hall 01829 760348
all members
You will be aware of the opening of the Thanks to the work of Bernie Harden,
Delamere Loop earlier this year and Cheshire Council has recognised a
perhaps ridden all or part of it. This ‘lostway’ and it will added it to the
was finally made possible by the Definitive Map. By creating an
creation of a new bridle path from additional section of bridleway and
Waste Lane at the north end of the upgrading a section of footpath to
Whitegate Way, to Cuddington Lane. bridleway status, a bridleway link will
In recognition of their contribution, a be made between Rake Lane and
BHS Route Creation award was Cotton Lane in Christleton/Cotton
presented at the Cheshire Show to the Edmunds.
landowners, Mark Wright, Michelle This will give us nearly a kilometre of
Stubbs and her partner, Alan Murtagh useful bridlepath that was previously
just a short dead end
It was with great sadness that we
heard of the death of Cynthia Beeley
after a short period of bravely fought
illness. She was an inspiration to those
of us who hope to emulate her and
continue riding into our old age. Jackie
Dalton kindly shares some memories
and Cynthia’s daughter, Margaret, has
supplied a photo.
Cynthia Beeley 1927-2009
Bianca Bairstow and Dianne Hall receive
the awards on behalf of Michelle and Mark Cynthia Beeley was a long-standing
from CWAC councillor of the Tourism member of the Mid-Cheshire Bridleways
department with Ray Hall looking on. Association. She died in May this year,
just before her 82nd Birthday, following a
short illness, and will be sadly missed by
MCBA Secretary - Jenny Sloane 01928 788413 Chairman - Ray Hall 01829 760348
Newsletter & Membership - Kath Wurcbacher 01928 561410
Website: www.midcheshirebridleways.co.uk
all who knew her; she was such a great Bridleways Association as she lived on
character. the borders of both groups. Indeed she
was their Secretary for three years from
She was brought up on the Arley Hall 1996-1999 and then Chairman from 1999
Estate with her sister, Josephine. Horses retiring in 2007. In February this year she
became a part of her life from an early rode the final leg of the Potteries Ring
age. She went to school in North Wales Route Challenge and at their AGM in
at Lowther College. In the holidays she March she received her 1100-mile award
was frequently seen flying around the (although her actual mileage done over
countryside on Col. Moseley Leigh’s 17hh the years must have been huge).
hunter to get him fit for the hunting
season! When she left school she went to
work with horses in various parts of the
country, she also rode a motorbike.
Indeed, in her early 20’s she rode a
Triumph motorcycle from Cheshire to Italy
via Paris with her sister riding pillion, what
an adventure! She met her husband Ted,
playing badminton, he was a very athletic
player and they were a good winning
partnership.
On getting married Ted taught Cynthia to
drive a car and she taught Ted to ride a
motorbike. They were a very social
couple who loved dancing and a good
lively party! With Ted’s job in banking
they moved around the country a bit,
finally settling in Wybunbury, Cheshire, Cynthia and Count
with their three daughters Jo, Maggie and
Frankie. They lived on a smallholding and Sadly her husband, Ted, died in 1999, but
had horses. Cynthia and her daughters she decided to stay on at Woodbank,
joined the local riding club with many Wybunbury. When she lost her horse
successes in competitions. Cynthia’s life Count in his late 20’s she continued to
was slightly accident prone to say the ride with her friend, Jane Stewart, who
least! Over her lifespan she broke many was in to long-distance riding. Together
bones – but always recovered well and they regularly did 20+ miles at weekends,
soon got back in the saddle. Even on her often at great speed on Jane’s horses.
80th Birthday as her girls were planning a Indeed whilst doing an Endurance Ride in
family party for her, she had yet another Norfolk last year (26 miles) the comment
freak accident on a horse and spent her on her timesheet was “well done! But too
birthday with her arm in plaster. fast”(No extra points for coming in early).
Ted and Cynthia’s hobby was their They did several Bridle Rides up and
smallholding; they kept it in immaculate down the country. Their last holiday with
condition. They had a beautiful garden, the horses was in February 2009, in North
always full of colour and grew their own Yorkshire where they stayed with friends.
fruit and veg. They were often to be found They had great fun as ever and even got
hedge trimming or ditching around their mixed up with the Billsdale Foxhounds
fields, all by hand (No JCB’s here!). In who were out hunting – that must’ve been
later life she admitted occasionally “the exciting!
chainsaw did feel quite heavy sometimes”.
Good old Cynthia, game to the last, we
In the early days as a member of our shall always remember you for your
group, Cynthia spent much time riding the energy and zest for life.
bridleways and helping to put some routes
together, always to be seen mounted on
her lively grey gelding, Count. She looked
after the few local bridleways in her area
and also joined the North Staffs
MCBA Secretary - Jenny Sloane 01928 788413 Chairman - Ray Hall 01829 760348
Newsletter & Membership - Kath Wurcbacher 01928 561410
Website: www.midcheshirebridleways.co.uk
