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Copy for the MARCH issue should be with the Editor
Bodinnick, Wick Road, Langham CO4 5PG [email protected]
by 1 pm on SUNDAY 15 FEBRUARY
FEBRUARY 2015
FROM THE RECTOR
Dear Friends,
May I again thank you for your warm welcome to Langham and Boxted. I am really enjoying my time with you in the villages and I particularly enjoyed meeting you at the Carol and Christmas Services associated with Boxted and Langham Schools, and in both the parishes churches over the Christmas period. I look forward to meeting you all again in the coming year. A special thank-you to everyone who sang so well in the services.
That first Christmas gave birth to a new life, Jesus’, and through him there is the opportunity for a new start and a new future for us all. The New Year gives us the opportunity to accept all that he offers us and for him to be part of a new start for us all. Through him we can review the past, consider the future and journey on with him as part of our lives.
As someone who is making a new start in the villages I invite you to journey with me as I review my past and consider how best to journey on in my life. As part of these assessments you may like to join me for a Confirmation Course that I have started on Saturday mornings. This course is open to all, including those who would like to explore the Christian Faith with a view to being confirmed and those who are already confirmed who would like to review the basis of their faith. You may also like to join a Lent Course which we hope to hold, starting at the end of February, leading up to Easter (5th April).
Additionally, as part of our preparation for Easter we will be holding services in Holy Week, including Maundy Thursday and Good Friday and there will be an Easter Day service to round off our period of Lent and to celebrate Jesus’ resurrection. To find out more of the practicalities please contact me on [email protected], or contact our Churchwardens, Stephen Garner, Jos Carter and Graham Pullen, or please look at the Church web site lb-churches.co.uk as information comes on stream.
Finally, may I take this opportunity to wish you all a very healthy and fulfilled 2015,
PANTO AT BOXTED On 30 December the Royal British Legion clubhouse at Boxted was transformed into a Theatre Royal for two most memorable performances of “Cinderella”, devised and presented by the talented and resourceful Cherry Watts with the able assistance of her husband John. The show was in aid of the RBL Poppy Appeal and captured the very best of village fun and humour; the audiences responded with huge enthusi-asm, ever ready to add their own quips. Left: Ugly Sister Violet (Barry Took) is resigned to the advances of Buttons (James Petts). Right: Kingy (Scott Dolling) rather enjoys the protection of Ugly Sisters Lavender (Chris Mackay) and Violet (Barry Took).
BOXTED METHODIST CHAPEL Minister: The Revd Ruth Ridge
The Manse Chapel Lane West Bergholt CO6 3EF 242183 Email: [email protected]
THE PARISH OF
LANGHAM WITH BOXTED Website www.lb-churches.co.uk
Rector The Revd Dr Mandy Elmes
The Rectory Church Close West Bergholt
CO6 3JZ 240906
Mobile: 07872 649967
Email: [email protected]
Lay Minister Denise Hobday 230918
Sunday Group Patsy Ann Maggs 322450
Zone & Edge Dominic Sheil 273324
Churchwardens
St Mary’s Langham
Stephen Garner 272599
St Peter’s Boxted
Jocelyn Carter 272755
Graham Pullen 273804
St Mary & St Peter Newsletter
Editor Ian Hollands 230525
Email: [email protected]
Advertising Christopher Garnett 272479
Email: [email protected]
Distribution
Ann Barnard (Boxted) 272349
Andrew Stacey (Langham) 272806
Enquiries about baptisms, weddings or funerals should be made to Ian Hollands, PCC Secretary, 230525.
CHURCH SERVICES FEBRUARY
Sunday 1st 11.00 am Boxted Methodist Chapel
Morning Service 11.15 am St Peter’s
Sung Eucharist 3.00 pm Boxted Methodist Chapel
Band Service Sunday 8th 9.30 am St Mary’s
Sung Eucharist (With children’s Sunday Group)
11.00 am Boxted Methodist Chapel Sunday 15th 8.00 am St Mary’s
Eucharist (BCP) 9.30 am St Peter’s
Sung Eucharist (CW) (With children’s Sunday Group)
11.00 am Boxted Methodist Chapel Morning Service with Holy Communion
Ash Wednesday 18th 10.00 am St Mary’s
Eucharist with Imposition of Ashes Sunday 22nd 11.00 am Boxted Methodist Chapel
Morning Service 11.15 am St Mary’s
Sung Eucharist (CW) 6.00 pm St Peter’s
Evensong (BCP) *
* Provisional—please see notices at churches
BOXTED METHODIST CHAPEL Readers will see that Sunday morning services at the Boxted Methodist Chapel are now at 11 am instead of 10.30. The change is to enable Ministers to take two services on a Sunday morning.
Langham & Boxted Churches
FAMILY
QUIZ NIGHT Saturday
7 MARCH
Boxted Village Hall 7.00 for 7.15 pm
Teams of up to 8 people
£6 a head (Includes light snacks)
Licensed Bar Raffle All ages welcome
To book a table ring
Dominic Sheil
01206 273324 In aid of the
Churches’ youth work
MEMORIAL TO WILFRID TOLHURST
In September 2013 we reported that the Dedham Vale Society’s (DVS) had had to abandon its project to erect a flagpole on St Mary’s Church in memory of the late Wilfrid Tolhurst, a benefactor of the church and at the time of his death chairman of the Society. Last year the church’s insurers had a change of mind and agreed to accept lightning protection of the tower only, the much lower cost of which has rendered the project once again viable. With the agreement of the Parochial Church Council, the DVS is now engaging contractors and after a gap of nearly eighty years the flag of St George will shortly be seen from across the Dedham Vale, flying boldly from St Mary’s Church tower.
THE CHILDREN’S SOCIETY Collections for the Society at the Carol, Crib and Christingle church services and the Boxted St Peter’s School Carol Service came to a remarkable £414. February is the month in which the home collection boxes are gathered in for counting. Will people who have them please bring them to a service at St Mary’s or St Peter’s on 8, 15 or 22 February (see the panel on this page) or contact Gill Pullen (Boxted, 273804) or Helen Sims (Langham, 321286), who will gladly arrange collection.
HEATING OIL SCHEME Orders for the next delivery of domestic oil under the group scheme must be made (in person only) at Langham Community Shop not later than Sunday 8 February.
BOXTED HISTORY GROUP In November, Jeff Page returned to deliver the second instalment of his talk on the life and times of Charles Dickens. Well on his way to being an established author, Dickens married Catherine Hogarth in 1836, the couple sharing their home with Catherine’s sister Mary. It is not known whether Dickens had a relationship with the latter. In 1857 he left his wife to live with the young actress Ellen Tiernan. Dickens’s writings increasingly reflected the plight of children at a time when half the funerals in London were of children. He spent his latter years largely as a social campaigner, being responsible for securing the closure of harsh Yorkshire mill schools and raising funds to establish Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital. A social and fund-raising quiz night in December raised £170 for the Royal British Legion.
JOHN TOKELY Painter & Decorator No job too large or small.
9 Nayland Road Colchester CO4 5EG Mobile: 07976 848310 Tel: 01206 845665
STEVE RAYNER House/Garden Maintenance Grass/Hedge cutting Weed control Clearance
Small tree work Exterior painting Gutters cleared Gates/Fencing/ Shed Services DIY jobs
Mobile: 07709 972728 Tel: 01206 233487
LANGHAM PRE-SCHOOL Ofsted inspected Children aged 2-5 yrs old can learn & play in a friendly atmosphere with highly qualified staff. Mobile: 07930 963638 (9-12.30) during term-time Email: [email protected]
MATHER & CO SOLICITORS LANGHAM Low cost, high quality conveyancing. Also Wills, Probates and Powers of Attorney + Family and general legal services. Tel: 01206 322763
BS GARDEN MAINTENANCE Hedge & grass cutting Pruning Planting
Painting & Odd Jobs Winter Logs Mobile: 07513 150526 Tel: 01206 273292
LENNIE NEWPORT Window Cleaning Services Windows and surrounds thoroughly cleaned
A reliable service Tel: 01206 322762
J ROGERS Plumbing & Heating Over 40 years’ experience
Mobile: 07970 477995 Tel: 01206 852875
RUSSELL SMITH
High Quality Painter & Decorator
Jon-Pat School Road Langham Colchester
Tel: 01206 323520
BIG CLEAN LITTLE CLEAN LIMITED
Domestic and Office Cleaning
A quality, reliable, fully insured service
Mobile: 07786 087585 Tel: 01206 273125
EXTERIOR CARE Roofing Specialist
Flat roofing Tiling & Slating New roofs & repairs
Mobile: 07970 016234 Tel: 01206 272453
5 Brook Cottages Wet Lane Boxted
PARK LANE BEAUTY Beauty Treatment
Unit 6 Park Lane Business Centre Langham
Telephone 01206 233308
Email: [email protected]
PENROSE Veterinary Surgeons
9.00 to 6.30 weekdays, Wed evening & Sat morning
70 Brinkley Lane Highwoods 01206 842608
Peeler’s End Stratford St Mary 01206 323414
ZUMBA Fitness
Boxted Village Hall
Thursdays 9.30-10.15am Yogalates 10.20-11am
Jo Clarke 07887 518031
BOXTED VILLAGE HALL SNOWBALL December Winners January
£25 Anne Sara Mrs Andrews £10 D Warren Anne Sara £ 6 Mark Graves Mrs Mott £ 4 J Mallett Mrs Mott
If you would like to join the Snowball, ring Chris Tadman on 273216.
LANGHAM 100 CLUB November Winners December
£50 Bridge Club Alan Cadman £25 Elizabeth Ellis Roger Hobday £15 Cliff Jones C & R Clark £10 Community Shop Karen Schofield
If you would like to join the 100 Club, ring Sue Armstrong on 271127.
St Peter’s
Church
St Mary’s
Church
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Available 24 hours a day
12 Vineyard Street Colchester
Open 10am to 8pm daily
01206 561234
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Langham Shop & either Church
BOXTED WI Armed with cuttings from their gardens, members at the November meeting showed great ingenuity in their response to a demonstration of Xmas wreath-making. Some quite lovely wreaths were made. In early December members enjoyed an excellent Christmas Supper at the Leavenheath Lion. A week later they were joined in the Village Hall by friends from the Mile End WI and other guests at their Christmas Party, where entertainment was by the fabulous “First Class Brass”. Betting slips and horseracing (Overall Winner: Mary Chapman)made for a very different and really fun meeting . Boxted WI will hold an open meeting on 10 March, when non-members will be very welcome to go an hear Christine Beadle talk of “The Essex Scrubber”. The tickets are £5 each, inclusive of a soup and bread roll and tea or coffee and a cake. Please speak to Ann Bure on 271103. The very attractive 2015 programme includes a visit to Hayman’s Gin Distillery and an orienteering/mystery walk in High Woods Country Park.
BOXTED EVERGREEN CLUB In the course of their Christmas celebrations the Evergreens had an excellent three-course lunch at Tiptree “New Times”, calling at Perrywoods Garden Centre on their way home. The following week they had their Christmas Party, at which they were fascinated by Magic Marvo’s amazing tricks. There was a very tasty spread organised by Barbara Woodmason and Elaine Mott, whose efforts, and those of others, were much appreciated.
POPPY APPEAL The Royal British Legion (RBL) Poppy Appeal realised a tremendous £2,034 in Boxted , to which must be added some £500 in proceeds from “Cinderella (see the front page). The house-to-house collection in Langham brought in £1,192, which included £172 given at the Remembrance Service at St Mary’s. The organisers in the two villages add their personal thanks to those of the RBL for the efforts of the collectors and for the generosity of the many donors.
LANGHAM WI The December meeting was a celebration of Christmas, when members were joined by friends from Boxted and East Bergholt WIs. Member Carolyn Blacklock demonstrated making Christmas table decorations, after which the other members made their own. The first meeting of the New Year gave members much to think on and to realise how fortunate they are: Vivienne Wiggins had come to tell of the work of Beacon House, Colchester, in looking after the homeless, providing warm clothing, food and daily help. There will be a representative of Langham WI at the centenary celebration of WIs in the UK to be held in the Albert Hall in June. At home, the centenary year will see a number of expeditions; they include a theatre trip and visits to a snowdrop garden and the Bulmer Brick & Tile Works.
SHOEBOX APPEAL 2014 A handsome total of 137 well-filled shoeboxes were collected—30 from Boxted St Peter’s School 53 from Langham Primary School and 54 between the two villages at large. Well done, everyone!
TIN-BINS SKIP HIRE STRAIGHT ROAD BOXTED
2-4-6-8- yard skips
Fully licensed and qualified in
Waste Management & Recycling
Tel. Colchester 272751
Hunnaball Funeral Service York House 41 Mersea Road Colchester
Caring personal service from a family business
Immediate attention anytime, please contact: TREVOR, MELANIE or SAUL HUNNABALL
Tel: COLCHESTER 760049
T.P. Brundell Upholsterer Antique & Modern Re-upholstery
Loose Covers
Free Estimates
36 Silcott Street Brightlingsea Tel: 305635
Orchard Barns Kindergarten
Judged ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted
Children’s Nursery for children aged 2—7 years
Before and After School Club/Holiday Club Please visit our website
www.orchardbarns.co.uk Or call Shelley on
01206 323093 for more information
Architectural Services Homa Design Ltd
Langham New buildings, extensions, conversions
Planning & Building Regulations Tel: 01206 272247
RESULT! DSA Approved Female Driving Instructor
Friendly, reliable, 1—1 Tuition
Pass Plus, Refresher & Intensive Courses Mock Test Service Discounts Available
Call Chris: 01206 273132 or 07973 570022
CLEANSHINE WINDOW CLEANING SERVICE
ESSEX & SUFFOLK COVERED BASED IN BOXTED
Est. since 1994 Friendly, reliable and traditional service
Tel: 01206 272054 Mobile: 07706 054373
Please call for a Free Quote and see what a difference
clean windows can make GUTTERING ALSO CLEARED
JIM BROWN Oil Boiler & Aga
Maintenance
Tel: 01206-272012 Mobile: 07885-504036
A.H. BLAND Landscaping & Treework Service
Tel: 01206 869559 (24 hours) or 272426
Mobile Tel: 07771 626548
BEECHWOOD
LUXURY CATTERY
MOOR ROAD LANGHAM
Julie Tel: 01206 272937 Riches Mobile: 07792 061856
Tree Work & Hedging Fully qualified + insured Free Estimates
Firewood available Seasoned + split Free delivery
Call G Ely Mobile: 07860 833634
FUTURE ELECTRICAL LTD YOUR LOCAL ELECTRICIANS
Call Chris on 272494 or 07798 865377
Free quotations Qualified & Registered
Family Business [email protected]
Removals - Storage - Self Storage
T e l : 01206 233376 Foxash Estate Harwich Road Lawford CO11 2LR
www.schofieldremovals.co.uk
Period Building Specialists
& Timber Framed Conservatories
BARNARD
CONSTRUCTION
LTD.
Tel. 01206 272909 Mob. 07789 680124
1 Cage Lane, Boxted, Colchester CO4 5RE
Michael J Byles Plumbing & Heating
Oil Boiler Installations Servicing & Maintenance Oftec Registered
General Plumbing & Heating work also undertaken
Telephone 01206 822225 Mobile 07717 012433
E –mail: michaeljbyles @aol.com
ANGLIA LANDSCAPES
01206 272357
JANE BURTON Traditional Flooring
CARPET WOOD STONE
AMTICO VINYL RUGS
Designed to your personal requirements
Welmans Lamberts Lane Great Tey CO6 1AP
Tel: 01787 222770
Adult Care in the Community (private)
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.reedcareservices.co.uk
Telephone: 01206 848445
340 The Crescent Colchester CO4 9AD
mark & peter graves
carpenters & general builders
a family run business providing a professional
service and quality workmanship at competitive rates.
general interior & exterior property improvements/
maintenance including: painting, ki tchen
instal lation, shelving, cupboards, wardrobes,
f looring, windows, doors, archi traves, skirt ing
boards, guttering, fascias, roofs, extensions,
conversions, renovations, garages, new bui ld,
decking, patios, fencing, sheds and barns.
all jobs considered
tel: 07889 947150 (day) or
01206 271173 (evening)
c o m p l e t e e v e n t
www.complete-event.co.uk disco bar
Bradley Rabett
Tel: 01206 838884 Mob: 07944 580890
Email: [email protected]
All groundworks & landscaping carried out Supplies of aggregates, topsoil,
crushed concrete & road planings Est. 1957
FARM & WOODLAND SERVICES
BOB’S LOGS & KINDLING
Open fire/wood burner Barn stored
Mobile: 07733 326644
Tel: 01206 391146
Little Owls Pre School Boxted Ofsted reigistered
www.littleowlsboxted.co.uk
Phone: 01206 273226
Email: [email protected]