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The Forerunner
The Magazine for the Parish of
Newington Bagpath with
Kingscote
Calendar for August 2002
Services in Kingscote
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Sunday |
4th |
9.30 am |
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Holy Communion- BCP |
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Sunday |
11th |
11.00 am |
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Family Service |
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Sunday |
18th |
9.30 am |
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Parish Communion - CW Order 1 |
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Sunday |
25th |
11.00 am |
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Parish Communion - CW Order 1 |
Services in Horsley
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Sunday |
4th |
8.00 am |
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Holy Communion - BCP said |
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Sunday |
11th |
9.30 am |
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Holy Communion - BCP |
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Sunday |
18th |
11.00am |
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Parish Communion - CW Order 1 |
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Sunday |
25th |
9.30 am |
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Parish Communion - CW Order 1 |
Parishioners are reminded that the Service of Institution and Induction of the Reverend Stephen Earley to the new joint benefice will take place at 7.30 pm on Tuesday 27th August in St George’s Church, Nailsworth. All are most cordially invited to attend this important and symbolic occasion, which will involve many diocesan dignitaries as well as representatives of the three parishes. It will be followed by a social gathering with refreshments at the Nailsworth C of E Primary School. Car sharing is recommended to ease parking and those seeking a lift should contact a member of the PCC.
The new joint benefice will provide the following services each month:
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1st Sunday |
8 am Horsley |
9.30 am Nailsworth |
11 am Kingscote |
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2nd Sunday |
8 am Shortwood |
9.30 am Nailsworth |
11 am Horsley |
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3rd Sunday |
9.30 am Nailsworth |
11 am Kingscote |
6 pm Shortwood |
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4th Sunday |
8 am Kingscote |
9.30 am Nailsworth |
11 am Horsley |
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5th Sunday |
8 am Nailsworth |
11 am Nailsworth |
6 pm Deanery |
- The next PCC Meeting will be on Monday 16th Sept at 8.00 pm in the Village Hall.
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The item below was published in the Daily Telegraph on Saturday 6 July:
Enjoying God
One of the most
memorable phrases from the largely forgotten Shorter Catechism comes at the
very beginning of that seminal work.
“Man’s chief end is to glorify God” it says, “and to enjoy Him for
ever”.
It is the use of that word “enjoy” that attracts our attention. God is to be “enjoyed”; to enjoy means to receive pleasure from something or someone. Its synonyms are “like”, “love”, “relish”.
This is a very positive statement about the attitude to God we are allowed to have and the way in which we are free to express it. It is also, in effect, a description of the way people should approach worship. If worship is essentially enjoying God, it cannot be other than characterised by enthusiastic love and exuberant faith.
Worship is for many simply church attendance, too often passive listening rather than active involvement in an enjoyable experience. Certainly many of the Old Testament psalms convey a real sense of celebration. They vibrate with songs of praise and shouts of joy. At the same time the psalms, like the Bible itself, represent every aspect of human experience.
As well as exaltation; dereliction, despair, doubt, deprivation are living themes relating to real people. But this surely is the wonder of the Word of God as a whole, as well as of the psalms in particular.
The Bible speaks with many voices, ministering to many needs. It can rejoice with those who rejoice, but weep with those who weep. It can offer the authoritative word, but contains a preacher who feels “all is vanity”, that there is no purpose or meaning to life. It is this very comprehensiveness that makes the Bible a living book, able to meet the needs of all who worship.
To enjoy God fully means celebrating with our whole being. Worship is not confined to any one aspect of our personality. It involves physical, mental, emotional and spiritual pleasure. This means that worship must offer the opportunity to every part of us to enjoy relationship with God. Intellectual effort will be involved in true worship as the mind wrestles with the deep things of faith.
By the Rev Dr Denis Duncan
Church Flowers
July 28th and Aug 4th Mrs A Wooldridge
Aug 11th and 18th Mrs K Candy
Aug 25th and Sept 1st Mrs L Marsh
Sept 8th and 15th Mrs T Pool
Jo Spash
Sunday Club
No meeting will be held in August. We meet again in September.
Janet Davies and Elin Tattersall
Altar Guild
The next meeting will be in the Church at 2.30 pm on
Wednesday 14th August.
Vida Sutton
Grumbolds Ash Group
As announced last month, our narrow-boat trip was not until the 30th July which was too late for a report in this issue. We hope to have a barbecue some time in August—this year for members only.
Vida Sutton
Parish Council News
Sharon Hodgkins has been appointed clerk to the Parish Council and becomes the official recipient of formal communications with the council. We welcome her to this important role in the community and at the same time we thank Bob Smith for his diligent service over the years.
Brian Hillam
Lifeboat Collection
We thank all those in the parish who contributed to the RNLI door to door collection this year. The monies received in the parish totalled £94-57, and the grand total for the Tetbury group who organise our activity was £1,800.
Vida Sutton
Royal British
Legion—Nailsworth Branch
The above organisation is keen to recruit new members in the district, who have previously served in the UK armed forces (regular, national service or reserves). The next branch meeting will be at 7.30 pm on Thursday 15th August at the Nailsworth Social Club in Brewery Lane. The work of the Royal British Legion is well enough known to need no further explanation, and it is an institution worthy of support. Prospective new members can attend the above meeting without commitment, to meet existing members and the committee for a drink and chat. Anyone who would like to discuss things beforehand should call Peter Trustram Eve.
Church Restoration
Appeal
We are delighted to report that the target for the appeal has now been reached. Making the reasonable assumptions that the government delivers the Gift Aid related to our donations and the subsidy for ‘the repair of historic places of worship’ (equivalent to 12.5% off bills) we will have £63,546 compared with our target of £62,734.
We are of course extremely grateful for all of the support which we have received and there is a nice analogy appropriate to this season. Our own contributions to Appeal 2001 last year were the seed-corn, and Georgina and her team have brought home the harvest from the many generous charities who have multiplied our donations. Well done everyone !
The selected contractor, Ward of Stonehouse, will be commencing the work in September.
The PCC
The Church Gallery
As many people will already know, the church gallery has for some time been deemed to be potentially unsafe for use due to weakness in the supporting (20ft long) wooden beam which spans the building. This is not usually a problem on a Sunday morning, but it does reduce the potential capacity of the building for large weddings and concerts.
Earlier this year two cast iron columns were purchased with the assistance of a generous donation, salvaged from an old mill in Stroud, which appear to be ideally suitable to support the gallery from either side of the aisle below. We have been given verbal approval by the Diocese to proceed on the basis of installing them at some future time. (Clearly priority now must be given to the external restoration.) However this will visually alter the appearance of the inside of the building, and we feel it is important that parishioners should be aware of what is intended.
The PCC
Car Boot Sale
The next car boot sale aimed at raising funds for the running of the church is planned on Sunday 8th September between 9.00 am and 12 noon at The Hunters Hall. The principal costs which we have to meet are the Diocesan Quota (£4,200 per annum) which contributes towards the vicar’s salary and pension, and the church insurance (£770 per annum).
We invite support from parishioners in taking part as buyers and sellers, in preparing cakes and plants for the produce stall, and in helping to control the crowds ! Those who wish to sell but do not wish to set up their own stall can add goods to the ‘Community Stall’. All having enquiries and/or offers are welcome to call Sandy Childress.
Sponsored Bike Ride
This year’s event will take place on Saturday 14 September and as usual half of the monies raised will go towards the Gloucestershire Historic Churches Trust(which has contributed generously to our restoration appeal) and half towards a church of the participants’ choice.
Anyone wishing to take part please contact Sue Bradley-Jones for details and sponsorship form.
Meningitis Trust - 5
Valleys Walk - Sunday 22 September
Last year 1,600 walkers took part in this annual event, raising £44,464 towards the trust. This year will be the 15th Anniversary Walk and those intending to take part should note the date in their diaries. Further information including registration procedure will be published in the September magazine.
The Editor
Harvest Supper 2002
Please note in your diaries that the Harvest Supper will be held on Saturday 5 October in the Village Hall. Further details will be published in the September magazine.
The PCC
Mobile Police Station
The Mobile Police Station will visit Kingscote on Wednesday 7th August in the evening and on Wednesday 21st August at midday. It normally parks at the Lych gate and visits are also announced on the Parish Council notice board.
The Editor
Post Office
The Post Office is open on every normal working Tuesday and Thursday :
from 9.00
am to 1.00 pm and from
2.30 pm to 5.30 pm.
Mobile Library
The mobile library will be by The Walled Garden from 9.40 am to 9.55 am on Thursdays August 8th and 22nd.
Waste Recycling
The boxes will be emptied as follows:
Newington and Bagpath - Mon. 5th and 19th August.
Kingscote - Tues. 6th and 20th August.
Funeral Costs
One of the least enjoyable responsibilities of the PCC is collecting the various fees involved with funerals and interments. Family members are naturally distressed at such times and the whole business can seem rather parasitic. Two levels of fees are involved: Statutory fees which are set nationally, authorised by parliament, and non-negotiable; and Local fees which are set locally to be appropriate to the actual costs involved. The PCC would be entitled in cases of need to be flexible on the latter. Specific examples of the 2002 fees are listed below.
Statutory fees for Funerals and Burials
Clergy Fee PCC Fee
Funeral service in church £39.00 £33.00
Churchyard burial following above - £133.00
Interment elsewhere following above - -
Separate burial in churchyard £27.00 £133.00
Separate interment of ashes £27.00 £40.00
Separate burial elsewhere £27.00 -
Certificate at time of burial £9.00 -
Statutory
fees for Monuments* in Churchyard
Small wooden cross £6.00 £9.00
Small vase £27.00 £33.00
Cremation tablet £27.00 £33.00
Any other monument £39.00 £75.00
New inscription added £27.00 -
*All subject to strict control on size & materials. Those who mow know why.
Local fees at Kingscote (may be reviewed by new vicar)
Organist** £30.00
Heat and light*** £40.00
+ Clergy travel expenses as appropriate @ 40p per mile
** Depends on who is available.
***These costs recognise that, over and above fuel and electricity consumed,
equipment needs maintenance and
eventual replacement.
The Editor for the PCC
General Interest
(We have some space to spare this month and return for the third episode in the historical series on the large house and estate which previously existed to the right of the road leading to Wotton-under-Edge.)
Memories of my Victorian Childhood at The Ridge
My father was a member of the Duke of Beaufort’s and Lord Fitzharding’s (now the Berkeley) hunts. The latter used to meet sometimes at The Ridge and while the riders were having refreshments, we children used to have the time of our lives making friends with the sad faced hounds. I seem to remember an old man named Sammy the Runner who was quite an institution with the hunt and I can see him now opening the gate from the park into the drive for it and knocking the stones off the road with his stick.
Our two elder brothers and sister also hunted but we three had as a steed only Jenny the donkey. She was a friendly ass but with decided views of her own as to what should be expected of her. She was, however, quite obliging about jumping the small stream in Waterley Bottom and as surely as she arrived safely on the further bank so surely did the rider fall off. She had at one time, I remember, a most attractive woolly coated son called Ben. My brave twin used to hold him around his neck and keep up with him, running, whilst he galloped about the orchard.
To return to the house:
Beyond the stable yard was another in which were the shops, as they are called, of the estate carpenter and blacksmith, old Daddy Poole and his son Edward. We loved Daddy’s shop with its tools and wood shavings and pots of paints, but Edward’s had an even bigger attraction with the huge bellows and forge and anvil and flying sparks, besides the thrill of seeing him shoe the great heavy feet of the cart horses.
On the other side of the house, from the terrace and tennis courts a wide path ran down to the gardens, quite a long way through lawns and shrubbery by an iron bridge over a sunken road and over a stream to the green-houses and kitchen garden. The greenhouses were five in number and adjoined the stove. At one end of them was the cottage of William Workman, the head gardener, a great friend and very kind to us children. We thought his cottage most fascinating as its top door opened from the kitchen garden but downstairs was another door opening at a much lower level into the orchard.
Below the orchard were the shooting dogs’ kennels. I remember Fidget the little roan spaniel and Beau and Belle, retrievers and constant companions of Henry Workman the keeper. Workman was the name of many families around us and of our six gardeners three bore it - William as mentioned above, old Joe, who lived in the Dingle cottage, and Albert at the Bowcote Lodge. He married our head laundry maid, Charlotte, and great was the excitement when their son Freddie arrived. He was probably the first baby we ever had anything to do with. Bowcote Farm was the home farm then and many happy times we had there.
We knew the cart horses very well - Prince and Captain (white) Violet and Blackbird (black) and Polly and Jerry (bay and brown). These last were the special charge of David Poole, one of the carters, who lived in the little lodge towards the ridings. It is still called ‘Poole’s Lodge’. The cowman Ephriam Woodward lived in the ‘Round House’ on the Dursley road. George Haglin looked after the pigs and greatly did we enjoy watching him ladle out the swill for them in a bowl with a very long handle from two fascinating deep pits in one of the farm buildings.
The bailiff James Hancock, lived in the cottage at the far end of the plantations near the Dursley road. In the main lodge was Charles Hand, who worked in both stables and garden, and there was a Jim Baglin who cleaned knives and shoes in a nice little room in the back yard. We used to pick up sticks for his old mother, Biddy. They lived in two cottages ( now no more) below Bowcote on the road to Dursley, the other being occupied by Bill Hancock (another carter).
But the chief occasion for the picking up by us of sticks was the great bonfire on Guy Fawkes Day. We used to have a glorious one in the park near the house - so large it could be seen from across the Severn, as we would see the those over there. The maids in the ‘workroom’ (where all the sewing for the house was done) used to make a huge guy and it was terrifying to see him being carried downstairs - a great tall, white, stuffed figure of a man, always with a full matchbox in his pockets. There was great excitement when it caught fire and went off with a bang, and the poor guy fell into the fire himself. There were fireworks afterwards and the roasting of potatoes in the embers, altogether a thrilling annual event in our young lives. We did not agree with our German Governess, Fraulein Emmerich, who thought the bonfire was a great waste of wood. Fraulein was with us for some years and found us no doubt very trying at times, though we had our better moments. She was very musical and an excellent teacher.
On Sundays twenty-four souls (twelve of us and some of the twelve servants) went to the little church, about three quarters of a mile from the house. It was built by our great uncle, and was most picturesquely situated on a high wooded promontory, sloping steeply down into Waterley Bottom. My mother was driven there in a four wheeled pony carriage, while we walked by a short cut. Those were the days when people went to church more than they do now and the little church used to be pretty well filled., what with the local farmers, the men who worked for us and their families and ourselves. We had a good part singing choir and for the little pipe organ an organist called Bye came up from Nibley. On one side of the organ were raised seats for the children, for whom we had a little school behind the church run by Mrs Brown and her daughter Jenny, who lived in a little cottage near by. The school was used too for a Sunday School and sometimes for a Missionary meeting.
Amongst the most regular attendants at the little church were Farmer Daniel and his family from Symondshall. I can see them now, he and his wife, daughter and one son in their pew by the vestry door, and their two other sons singing respectively tenor and bass in the choir. We three used to love going over to Symondshall where they were all so kind to us, giving us tea and a great treat - hot buttered toast. I remember one evening when it was getting dark when the little brother and I started for home, and how frightened we were as we ran along the high road, hand in hand, and crying and praying to God to keep us safe.
To be continued
Confused ?
It is necessary for technical reasons that these warheads be stored upside down; that is, with the top at the bottom and the bottom at the top. In order that there may be no doubt as to which is the bottom and which is the top, it will be seen to that the bottom of each warhead immediately be labelled with the word TOP.
British Admiralty Regulation, quoted in Applied Optics, vii, 19 (1968)
Magazine
Material for the next issue of the Forerunner please by 20th August to H.
Tubbs, 3 The Walled Garden, Tel. 860 194, e-mail:
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Parish Directory as of January 2002
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Vicar: |
The Parish entered Interregnum on 12th August 2001 |
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Rural Dean: |
The Rev. C. Mulholland |
See paper version of Forerunner |
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Churchwarden: |
Harry Tubbs |
3 The Walled Garden, Kingscote, GL8 8YP. Tel: 860 194 |
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Hon.Sec.PCC: |
Georgina Harford |
See paper version of Forerunner |
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Hon.Treas.PCC: |
Brooks Childress |
See paperversion of Forerunner |
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Members of PCC: |
The Churchwarden |
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Members of Altar Guild: |
Gill James (Treasurer) |
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Sunday Club: |
Elin Tattersall |
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Editor of Forerunner: |
Harry Tubbs |
3 The Walled Garden Kingscote, GL8 8YP. Tel: 860 194 |
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Printer of Forerunner: |
Geoffrey Higgins |
See paper version of Forerunner |
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Lay Representatives to Deanery Synod: |
Hugh and Juliet Ellis |
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Covenants / Gift Aid: |
Philip Kendall |
See paper version of Forerunner |
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Envelopes: |
Harry Tubbs |
See paper version of Forerunner |
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Church Flowers and Brasses: |
The Altar Guild |
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Church Flowers Rota: |
Jo Spash |
See paper version of Forerunner |
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Organist: |
Rosemary Sims |
See paper version of Forerunner |
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Sidespersons: |
Robert Whitworth |
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Village Hall: |
Chairman: Mike Waite |
See paper version of Forerunner |
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Royal British Legion: |
Gordon Bateman |
See paper version of Forerunner |
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Parish Council Chairman: |
Richard Gale |
See paper version of Forerunner |
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Parish Council Clerk: |
Bob Smith |
See paper version of Forerunner |
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