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The Forerunner

The Magazine for the Parish of

Newington Bagpath with

Kingscote

Calendar for December 2002

Sunday	1st	Kingscote Horsley Nailsworth Horsley Nailsworth (CC)	11.00 am 8.00 am 9.30 am 11.00 am 6.00 pm	Parish Communion CW Holy Communion BCP Family Communion Family Service Holy Communion
Wednesday	4th	Nailsworth	10.00 am	Holy Communion
Sunday	8th	Kingscote Nailsworth Horsley Shortwood	11.00 am 9.30 am 11.00 am 6.00 pm	Matins Family Communion Holy Communion BCP Evensong
Wednesday	11th	Nailsworth	10.00 am	Holy Communion
Sunday	15th	Kingscote Nailsworth Nailsworth Horsley	11.00 am 9.30 am 6.00 pm 6.30 pm	Family Service All Age Family Service Evensong Nine Lessons and Carols
Wednesday	18th	Nailsworth	9.30 am	Holy Communion
Thursday	19th	Nailsworth	6.00 pm	Primary Christingle Service
Friday	20th	Kingscote	7.00 pm	Service of Lessons & Carols
Sunday	22nd	Kingscote Shortwood Nailsworth Horsley Nailsworth	No Service 8.00 am 9.30 am 11.00 am 6.00 pm	Holy Communion Family Communion Holy Communion Town Carol Service
Tuesday	24th	Kingscote Horsley Nailsworth Horsley Nailsworth	No service 3.00 pm 4.00 pm 11.00 pm 11.00 pm	Crib & Christingle Service Christingle Service Midnight Communion Midnight Communion
Wednesday	25th	Kingscote Nailsworth Horsley	11.00 am 9.30 am 11.00 am	Christmas Communion Family Communion Family Communion
Sunday	29th	Kingscote Nailsworth Nailsworth	11.00 am 8.00 am 11.00 am	Family Service Holy Communion Family Communion

• Baptism Register - 3rd November 2002 Isabel Susan Shore
• The next PCC meeting will be on Tuesday 7th January at 8.00 pm in the Village Hall
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• Diocesan Internet News Site www.glosdioc.org.uk

The Vicar’s Letter

Dear Friends,

 

As a boy I remember Christmas and Bonfire night being two special times of the year that I always looked forward to - I remember going out with Mum and Dad to do the final shopping before Christmas nearly fifty years ago and whistling so much in joyful anticipation that Dad asked me if I’d swallowed a packet of birdseed !    I remember the year when Dad surprised Mum with a spin dryer, and her proudly showing it to the milk-lady when she called with her Christmas day delivery !  I remember the rocket which whooshed past Dad, taking his hat into orbit, when he lit the blue touch paper but didn’t have time to  retire immediately.  Today’s organised displays are brilliant, but they are not a patch on the fun of family Bonfire Night in the back garden.

 

Memories for me are full of laughter and joy; of anticipation and promises that were kept.  Parents who kept their promises to love, honour and cherish each other, and by keeping promises gave us children such happy memories.  But I know also that for some the memories they can recall are of loneliness, abuse, sadness and broken promises.

 

We should all try so hard to keep our promises so that we don’t let each other down.  We can only teach our children to keep their promises by our example.

 

Our Heavenly father promised, through the prophet Isaiah, that He would give a sign “the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son and will call him Immanuel” and so it happened.   God, the Father and Son, has made many promises through the bible and many have already been kept.  Through the centuries people have eagerly awaited the time when the remaining promises will be kept, as they surely will !

 

Let us all try to keep all of our promises this Christmas and remember that time spent with each other is much more precious than money spent !

 

May God’s Blessing be on you all this Christmas.

 

 

The Reverend Stephen Earley

Church Flowers

         Dec 1st to 24th           Advent candle                 Mrs S Padden

         Dec 25th and 29th      CHRISTMAS      Altar Guild and helpers

         Jan  5th and 12th                              Mrs C Hatherell

                                                                                                              Jo Spash

 

Sunday Club

Activities in December will be communicated separately later.  

Janet Davies and Elin Tattersall

 

 Altar Guild

We were all very sad to hear of the death of Mrs Lloyd.  Peggy, as we all knew her, was our eldest Member and up to three years ago was very active in everything we did.  We all feel privileged to have known such a kind and gentle Lady.

 

At our coffee morning this year our grand total raised was £429.  We extend our thanks to everyone who helped us on the day.  Prize Draw winners were:

         1  Rachel Nichols - Christmas Hamper.

         2  Christine Lambert - Meal for two at Bar ‘1651’ Fleece, Cirencester.

         3  Eileen - Sherry

         4  A Goodfield - Whisky

         5  Edna Clark - Port

         6  Georgina Harford - Wine

         7  Julie Burness - Box of fruit and produce

         8  Gerald Gale - Chocolates

         9  Tristan Field - Brace of Pheasant

 

Our next meeting for church cleaning will be on 18 December at 2.30 pm.

 

Vida Sutton

Grumbolds Ash Group

This year we will meet for our annual Christmas meal on 11th December at ‘The Old Crown’ Pagan Hill, Stroud.  Travel arrangements to be made between Members to arrive at 7 pm.  Everyone to bring a small gift as usual.

                                                                                                       Vida Sutton

 

Halloween

The children from the village who participated in Halloween would like to say thank you to all contributors !  They had great fun.  They were given £5 on their travels and have donated this to the Village Hall.

 

Church Christmas Cards

Cards incorporating one of three alternative photographs associated with the church are available for £1.00 each.  See samples on display in the church or ring Sue Bradley-Jones to reserve your order.

 

Boxing Day

Weather permitting, a Village Walk - meet at 11.30 am at Windy Corner, Bagpath, and then go as you please to recover from the festivities on Christmas Day.  All ages welcome.

The Wick & District Beagles will meet at 1.00 pm at Hunters Hall.

 

Mobile Police Station

The Mobile Police Station will visit Kingscote between 1.30 and 2.00 pm on Wednesday 11th and Sunday 22nd December.  Please give them your support.

 

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 Thursday  Dec. 12th.

 

Waste Recycling

The boxes will be emptied as follows:

              Newington and Bagpath  -  Mon. 9th and 23rd Dec.

              Kingscote  -  Tues. 10th and 24th Dec.

 

A reminder of materials which may be put into the black box:

         Intact empty glass bottles and jars - no lids, corks or caps

         Empty food and drink cans including pet food cans - wash and squash.

         Empty aerosol cans - do NOT squash or pierce.

         Newspapers and magazines.

         Telephone Directories and Yellow Pages.

         Junk mail, brochures and envelopes - PAPER ONLY, no plastic inserts.

 

Materials which must NOT be put in include:

         Broken glass, glass ovenware, ceramics, textiles, cardboard or plastic.

 

To order additional or replacement recycling boxes phone:  01285 623 613

 

        

Country House at Bagpath

It has been announced that The Cotswold District Council has refused planning consent for a proposed large new country house at the south end of Scrubbets Lane.  Those with internet access wishing to learn more about this matter may consult the following web-sites:  http://www.countryhouse.co.uk/ and  http://www.nothanks.org.uk/.

 

The Editor

General Interest

(We have a little space to spare this month and return for the fifth and final 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

 

As regards young companions there were not many of our age in the neighbourhood.  Besides the Grahams of Rednock, I can only remember the Rev. C. Murray-Browne’s children at Uley Rectory and Sir Benjamin Browne’s at Stoutshill, and farther away, the Ricardo’s at Gatcombe, Minchinhampton.  The cousins at Ashcroft and Kingscote were contemporaries of the elder half of the family.  Our grandfather (Rector of Bagpath, Kingscote, Owlpen and Beverstone) died when we were very young.  He was succeeded in the living by Alan, the eldest of his eight sons.  Two of the eight , Clement and Henry, went out to British Columbia taking one of the Ashcroft labourers.  They cut down trees and built a house which they called Ashcroft, which was the beginning of the present Ashcroft, a large town and railway junction.  Uncle Clem became a judge and then Governor of British Columbia, and his descendants are still living there.

 

The tall uncles used to come over from Ashcroft to The Ridge and have fun with us children, giving us special names.  There were two much loved aunts,  Aunt Hat and Aunt Em.  The last, my idea of a Christian, became a Plymouth Sister, like a Kingscote cousin of whom she was very fond.  Our Bengough grandmother and two aunts were Roman Catholics, so we had no excuse for not growing broadminded.

 

My Begough uncles were Stewart, a clergyman and very musical - at one time Prementor of Kings College Cambridge - and Major General Sir Harcourt, a good soldier and excellent linguist.  In the Boer War an African paper wrote that had Major Bengough been present at the time there would have been no Tower of Babel.

 

At Kingscote in those days were Sir Nigel Kingscote, my mother’s first cousin, and Lady Emily his wife, son and two daughters.  The elder, Maude became the mother of Field Marshal Sir Henry Maitland.  My only remebrance of cousin Nigel Kingscote is of him at a dance at The Ridge trying in vain to persuade my small self-conscious self to let him pull me through ‘The Lancers’.   We had a delightful caricature of him by ‘Spy’ in ‘Vanity Fair’ in which full justice is done to the Kingscote inches and striking aristocratic nose.   The picture is called ‘The Court’ as he was for years the Equerry to King Edward VII when he was Prince of Wales, and Treasurer to the Household when he became King.  Lady Emily, my Godmother, was Lady in Waiting to Queen Alexandra when she was Princess of Wales and Woman of the Bed Chamber after she became Queen.  I only remember her on a rainy day driving her dog-cart into the stable yard on a visit to my mother, while we children were energetically playing ‘Snob’, a kind of cricket in the loft.

 

And so ends the record of a happy childhood in a beautiful home.  We left The Ridge in 1884 for Dorsetshire, and there my beloved twin died two years later.

 

E. D. Bengough

 

Kingscote Village Hall

 

Children’s

Christmas

Events

 

Saturday  14  December

 

Older children:  8.00 pm to 10.00 pm

 

Christmas Disco with food

 

 

Sunday  15  December

 

Younger children:  3.00 to 5.00 pm

 

Christmas Party with a visit from

Father Christmas

 

 

Entry fee for each party  £3  per child

 

(For further information call Angela 860 697 or Louise 861 027)   

 

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Parish Directory as of January 2002

Vicar:	The Parish entered Interregnum on 12th August 2001
Rural Dean:	The Rev. C. Mulholland	See paper version of Forerunner
Churchwarden:	Harry Tubbs	3 The Walled Garden, Kingscote, GL8 8YP. Tel: 860 194
Hon.Sec.PCC:	Georgina Harford	See paper version of Forerunner
Hon.Treas.PCC:	Brooks Childress	See paperversion of Forerunner
Members of PCC:	The Churchwarden The Hon. Secretary The Hon. Treasurer Robert Whitworth Sue Bradley-Jones Jane Nichols Elin Tattersall Philip Kendell Kay Brightley Vida Sutton Richard Waller Hugh and Juliet Ellis
Members of Altar Guild:	Gill James (Treasurer) V. Sutton P. Lloyd P. Sage I. Shorey J. Bateman J. Spash J. Wagner
Sunday Club:	Elin Tattersall Janet Davies
Editor of Forerunner:	Harry Tubbs	3 The Walled Garden Kingscote, GL8 8YP. Tel: 860 194
Printer of Forerunner:	Geoffrey Higgins	See paper version of Forerunner
Lay Representatives to Deanery Synod:	Hugh and Juliet Ellis
Covenants / Gift Aid:	Philip Kendall	See paper version of Forerunner
Envelopes:	Harry Tubbs	See paper version of Forerunner
Church Flowers and Brasses:	The Altar Guild
Church Flowers Rota:	Jo Spash	See paper version of Forerunner
Organist:	Rosemary Sims	See paper version of Forerunner
Sidespersons:	Robert Whitworth Harry Tubbs Sue Bradley-Jones Kay Brightley Rod Tibbert
Village Hall:	Chairman: Mike Waite Bookings: Angela Wooldridge	See paper version of Forerunner See paper version of Forerunner
Royal British Legion:	Gordon Bateman	See paper version of Forerunner
Parish Council Chairman:	Richard Gale	See paper version of Forerunner
Parish Council Clerk:	Bob Smith	See paper version of Forerunner

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