St. Werburghs Church

Sunday 15th March is of course Mothering Sunday and to celebrate all mothers there will be a special service in Church at 11am.

All are welcome.

Its that time again and another great night is in store.

Traditional Scottish fare including haggis and neeps and ‘Auld lang syne’

Tickets are £12.50 a head and available from any of the Church Warden’s and Rev. Carol.

Rev. Carol can be contacted via 01538 372082 or via the contact page HERE 

 

Saturday 13th see’s breakfast with Santa at the village hall from 10am to midday.

Santa will be on hand – its been a task and a half to get him as this is his busiest time of the year but he is coming.

Full English breakfast is £3.50 for adults and £2.00 for the children.

A visit to see Santa in his Grotto is £1.50 and includes a present.

Every one is welcome !

 

 

The church will be holding its annual Christmas Tree Festival on Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th December within the Church.

 

Saturday 6th sees the Church open from 11am to 4.30pm and includes free craft activities for the children.

 

Sunday 7th has the Church open from 12.30pm until 4.30pm.

 

There are stalls and refreshments on both days and everyone is welcome.

 

The annual minutes silence preceded by the reading out of the names of the Parish’s War dead in this the centenary year of the start of the first World War took place at the Memorial on Dovedale Road on Tuesday 11th November.

A good turn out was witness to the proceedings despite a cold wind and some rain.

The service was conducted by the Reverend Carol Richardson.

The children from St Werburgh’s placed wooden crosses for each man assisted by other parishioners plus the laying  of poppy wreath’s.

The name of Leonard Edwards was read out for the first time since his death in 1920 as was the name of Stephen Allbutt who died in the second Gulf War in 2003.

Stephen’s mother now lives in the Parish.

As the bells  of the church struck 11am the gathering paused in a minutes silence.

One of St Werburgh’s pupils, nine year old Siobhan Waring composed the following poem and asked that the local paper shared it.

Her words sum up what remembrance is all about.

WHERE POPPIES GROW
In Flanders field where poppies grow
At the Tower of London the poppies show
One hundred years may have past
But the memory will always last

This coming Sunday, 9th November sees St Werburgh’s Church and the Parish Community come together to remember all those all lost their lives or suffered in the service of the country in either of the two World Wars or in other conflicts.

This years service is even more special following the news that a group of parishioners have been awarded over £6000 to commemorate those who died from the Parish in the First World War.

Reverend Carol Richardson was fortunate to join others this week at the Tower of London where she saw the ceramic poppies that are being planted to represent every British fatality in the war, in total  over 800,000 are being planted.

Carol said of her visit ‘I had a wonderful day, it was so moving to see a vast carpet of poppies and the crowd were so reverential as they looked on’

The poppies are made in Derby and can be purchased for delivery after the end  of the commemoration. It is hoped over £20 million will be made.

On Tuesday 11th November the annual commemoration event will take place at the village memorial in Dovedale Road at 11am.

 

Sunday 21^st September saw the village of Kingsley and its wider parish coming together to commemorate the centenary of the start of the first world war.

The day was chosen as it was on the eve of the centenary of the parish’s first fatality when George Harris Smith lost his life when his ship was sunk in the north sea whilst serving with the Royal Navy.

A very fitting and at times moving service in St Werburgh’s Church was conducted by the Reverend Carol Richardson with over a hundred persons present including school children from the local school who gave their thoughts on what the war meant to them.

A cross of  candles was lit by the congregation with readings and the poem  In Flanders Field by John McCrae recited during the act of commemoration.

This saw the 27 names on the villages war memorials read out plus the addition of Leonard Edwards who died as a result of his war service but seems to have been missed out.

Present were descendants of some  of those remembered as well as the small committee that have been working on the event for the last few months.

Either side of the church service the village hall was open and again over a hundred people visited a display of research conducted into the 28 from the area who are on the war memorials with of course the exception being Leonard Edwards.

Some  of the families bought photographs and other mementos of their descendants and shared them with the community.

Martin Clewlow who is a descendant of James Millward from Kingsley Moor (who survived the war) and featured in a Cheadle and Tean Times article earlier this year attended and put on a display of memorabilia from the war which was of great interest to both young and old alike.

As a result of event several families provided additional information and lines of enquiry to the committee in their quest to document as much as possible about the lives of those who died and their links with Kingsley.

The day  was a real community event and one that allowed everyone  to pause and reflect in a most appropriate way. Those who had spent several months researching these men felt this time was different  when their names were read out. It was ninety four years that week since Leonard Edwards died as the result of his war service and this event was the first time his name had ever been read out.

The research and display created by the committee will now be loaned to St Werburgh’s school to allow the children studying the war to better understand its impact on the local community.

Meanwhile the project is continuing in its research and proposed works around the war memorial. If anyone has any information on those listed below or anyone that might have been missed off the memorials to date then they can get in touch with Martyn on 01538 750657 or via martyn_hordern@hotmail.com. They would particularly like to hear from Peter Capewell from Tean who’s story of the Capewell brothers from Kingsley Moor also featured in this newspaper earlier this year.

 

George	Harris	Smith
Robert	Myles	Heywood
Rowland	Auriol.J.	Beech
Thomas	Salt
James	Poyser
Charles	Allen
Isaac	Hammond
George	Price	Bevans
Arthur	Keene
Thomas	Clowes
Earnest	Upton
George	Fallows
Edward	E	Bradshaw
George	S	Wheawall
Thomas	Barker
Roland	John	Burston
James	Meakin
James	H	Wildgoose
Colin	Capewell
George	Ramsell
Moses	Holland
William	Brindley
John	W	Salt
Kenneth	Roy	Lovatt
Rowland	J	Beech
Leonard	Edwards
George	William	Hood
J	Tideswell

 

A speical service will be held at Foxt to celebrate 10 years

since the Church almost closed.

Refreshments will be served at 5.15p.m in the Village Hall followed by a service in St. Marks Church at 6.30p.m.

Everyone Welcome.

2014 sees the centenary of the start of World War One.

Kingsley Parish has recorded on its memorials the names of 27 men who lost their lives as a result of their service in the war.

A small group has been quietly working away in the background to ensure that the parish commemorates this anniversary.

On Sunday 21st September there will be an exhibition in the village hall from 1pm until 3.30pm.

This will reveal the results of the groups research to date, what is planned in the future and a general display from the period in the parish’s history.

Tea and cakes etc will be on sale.

At 4pm there will be a service held in the church.

This date was picked as on 22nd September 1914 the first parishioner George Harris Smith lost his life serving with the Royal Navy in the North Sea. It seemed a poignant date to pick to hold the service.

The village hall will remain afterwards until 6pm for those wishing to visit the exhibition.

We look forward to lots of people from the parish coming together to mark this occasion.

 

 

 

The Newcastle Amateur Operatic Society will be presenting a concert called ‘Musical All Sorts’ on Friday 19th July at 7.30pm in the Church.

Described as a very good choir with modern songs and grammar which should appeal to a wide audience.

Tickets are available on the night at  the door or from Ian Hough on 01538753782 or Peter Johnson 0158752410

Tickets are £7 a head