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A Good Neighbour

Joy Marshall One of a number of people living in South Bucks, whose community and volunteering work has been recognised by the Chairman of South Bucks District Council (Councillor Dr Barry White) is Mrs Joy Marshall of Ellington Gardens, Taplow, who was recently presented with a framed certificate for her individual long service community work in Taplow.

Joy was a council member of the Taplow Parish Council for 13 years where her helpfulness and diligence were much in evidence, particularly in the research/planning field. Her work is still of assistance to local residents who, in receipt of planning applications, are sometimes at a loss as to the impact these might have on their homes. It means nothing to her to access Council records by travelling to Windsor or Denham, or even Aylesbury, by public transport, whilst her continued long-standing work in voluntarily checking 25 local footpaths on foot (accompanied by her dog Sammy), for missing gates, walk markers, overhanging tree branches, etc., for the Parish Council is a further example of her public service. Perhaps her most unusual way of protecting our local heritage is by keeping an eye on the possibility of unauthorised damage/destruction of listed trees.

It was no surprise to anyone knowing her that when a local distributor for the Jubilee River Churches Parish Magazine was needed in a part of Taplow that she should have volunteered for the job. At the end of each month the familiar sight of a figure bent against a winter’s wind and rain, with scarf flying, one hand firmly on hat and the other holding a bag of magazines and Sammy’s lead, tells us that Joy is on her way.

Bless her for all that.

Lee Grey

Reprinted from the Jubilee River Churches Parish Magazine.