Dear Wellow Parishioners,
Wellow Parish Post w/c 5th September 2016
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- Freshford and District Local History Society Autumn Programme
- Freshford & District Horticultural Society Annual Show - Saturday 10th September
- Fox & Badger Charity Quiz Evening - Thursday 8th September
- Item offered free - Office chair
- Wellow Boules
- Shoscombe History Group - Somerset & Dorset Railway
- Wellow Community Bus
- Dumped Peugeot opposite the School
- UKE CAN DO IT CHALLENGE
- Wellow Flower Show
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Freshford and District Local History Society Autumn Programme
FRESHFORD & DISTRICT LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY
LECTURES FOR AUTUMN – September to December 2016
Meetings are held in the Freshford Memorial Hall on the fourth Wednesday of each month. The hall is open from 7.00 pm and meetings begin at 7.30 pm. Annual subscription £10. Visitors are very welcome to attend any of our meetings.
Wed 28 Sept: Edward Mason, Rector of Bath Abbey:
“Bath Abbey – living history, living future (the Footprint Project)”
Wed 26 Oct: Francesca Breedon, University of Sheffield:
“Recent work at the Carthusian friary at Hinton”
Wed 23 Nov: Nicola Tallis, Alison Weir Tours:
“The life and times of Lady Jane Grey”
There is no meeting in December. Our meetings will resume on 28th January 2017.
If you want to cease membership or know of anyone who would like to become a member please contact penny@summerdene.fsnet.co.uk or phone 01225 723447
Freshford & District Horticultural Society Annual Show (sponsored by Freshford Mill) takes place next Saturday 10th September from 2-5 pm at Freshford Village Memorial Hall.
Schedules are available from The Galleries shop or they can be downloaded at www.freshfordvillage.com . The schedule includes tips for preparing your entries for showing.
The Annual Show is our big event of the year, please support it. There will be a raffle and refreshments too.
Following our Summer recess the monthly Charity Quiz Night starts again this Thursday @ 8pm.
Teams of up to six members very welcome for a fee of £2 each with all money raised going to the Charity or Good Cause chosen randomly on the night.
To date these quizzes have raised £28,435.30 and over the previous 12 month the following charitable organisations have benefited from your generosity to the tune of £2,022: -
July 2016 - £112.00 donated to The Dorothy House Hospice
June 2016 - £193.00 donated to Living Paintings
May 2016 - £175.00 donated to Willberry Wonder Pony Cancer Charity
April 2016 - £181.00 donated to Hope for Tanzania
March 2016 - £225.00 donated to Help for Heroes
February 2016 - £184.00 donated to the RSPCA
January 2016 - £159.00 donated to Wiltshire Air Ambulance
December 2015 - £189.00 donated to The Dorothy House Hospice
November 2015 - £250.00 donated to The Dorothy House Hospice
October 2015 - £169.00 donated to Willberry Wonder Pony Cancer Charity
September 2015 - £185.00 donated to the British Red Cross
Not only are all team fees donated on the evening but there is a wonderful raffle where the money raised is also donated to Charity or Good Cause of the night.
Our thanks to Landlord & Landlady, Jo & Charles Parson for their generosity in donating raffle prizes.
We look forward to seeing you on Thursday.
Richard & Clover Holland
Office swivel chair. Grey upholstery, silver metal-effect arms; metal feet with wheels. About 5 years old, originally from CostCo, now surplus to requirements. Basically very good condition but does tend to drop in height occasionally!
Can be collected from ‘Water Meadows’ by arrangement. Call Ian on 834276 or e-mail ian@ian-harris.com.
All parishioners and friends are welcome to join in our regular Wednesday evening Boules sessions, starting at 6.30pm at the 'Petanque Piste' on the Playing Field.
We hope to keep playing until the clocks go back at the end of October so there's still plenty of time to practice your 'shooting!'
Salutations!
Michel Leclerc
A talk by Mike Beale from the S&D Trust
Monday September 26th 2016 at 7.30 in the Village Hall
To mark the 50th Anniversary of the closure of the Somerset and Dorset Railway the History Group has invited Mike Beale from the S&D Trust to give a talk. The talk will focus on the line as a whole but will also include a very local focus and flavour. There will be various displays to view both before and after the talk as well as memorabilia such as a Shoscombe and Single Hill Halt fridge magnet (every house should have one) to purchase.
Ticket price: £5 to include a glass of wine or juice.
Tickets available from:
Nick Glass 01761 439406
Roina Richards 01761 434357
or on the door, IF there are still some left!
Wellow Community Bus
The summer holidays are over and we are back to the normal Community Bus Timetable, running into Bath from the Village Square at 7.40am, 8.30am, 3pm and 5.30pm with morning pick-ups on request from the Avon Street Coach Park, Bath and the evening scheduled return run to Wellow from Bath at 5.55pm. Please phone the minibus mobile 07580 868407 to request a morning pick-up from Bath.
Following low demand for the Friday morning 10.30am 'Shoppers Run' we have decided to suspend this service with immediate effect. We will consider putting on some Xmas shopping runs in December.
Please contact Prakriti on 07900 163167 for your group bookings ... and book early for your Xmas parties!!
In regards to the vehicle reported X173EAK we have carried out checks and found that the owner is not local we have asked that an officer from a neighbouring beat to go to the keepers address to find out what the owners intention is. However in the meantime as the vehicle is not road legal we are arranging for its removal, this may take a few days.
Thankyou
PCSO 6826 Tony McIntosh
Safer Stronger Neighbourhoods Team Radstock
Avon and Somerset Constabulary
(General Enquires: 101 (Non-Emergencies Only) (Internal: 62621
:Email: tony.mcintosh@avonandsomerset.police.uk
For details of your next PACT meeting, click here
UKE CAN DO IT CHALLENGE
Have you always wanted to learn to play a musical instrument?
Are you looking for something to while away those long, dark winter evenings?
Do you play an instrument and would like to join a fun music group?
Do you enjoy singing and laughing and good company?
Then the UKE CAN DO IT CHALLENGE is for you.
Open to people of ALL ages and ALL musical abilities, you are invited to come and join our fun, relaxed ukulele group.
We play well-known, familiar songs and will help you to master this marvellous, magical, musical instrument, which is guaranteed to bring a smile to your face.
To find out more come along to our first meeting:
Saturday 10 September*
The Galleries Café, Freshford
4:00pm
*There are lots of activities in the village this weekend, so if you are in the vicinity of the Galleries at 4:00pm on Saturday feel free to pop in.
For further information contact Nicky Thomas & Deb Jones
E: ukecandoit@outlook.com
T: 07973 818459 or 07933 329725
Or visit: www.ukecandoit.org
Wellow Flower Show
WELLOW HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY
On a miserable day we should like to thank all those villagers who rallied round to help rescue a very wet afternoon.
The entries were exceptionally good and congratulations to all the winners.
The full list of winners will be displayed in the next Parish Newsletter.
The Flower Show committee thanks everyone who judged, stewarded, set up or took down the show.
Those who did a sterling job providing teas in the Hall – you must have been in the most popular place apart from possibly
the beer tent. Anyone else to many to mention who supported the Show in whatever way they did – THANKYOU
Wellow Flower Show committee (on behalf of the Society)
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