Uley, Owlpen & Nympsfield June 2021 Village News

Supporting Church, Community and Local Business

[email protected] ULEY PARISH COUNCIL MR JOHN KAY, TEL: 07841 204404 E-MAIL: [email protected]

PARISH COUNCILLORS

JONATHAN DEMBREY CHAIR 07801217230

MELANIE PARASKEVA VICE-CHAIR 07929360221

JO DEE 01453 861566

JANET WOOD 01453 860236 Uley Parish Council MIKE GRIFFITHS 01453 860463

JULIETMr BROWNE John Kay | T: 07841 204404 | E: [email protected] 01453 860710 Parish Councillors TIM MARTIN 07772268473 Melanie Paraskeva (Chair) [email protected] 07929 360221 DISTRICTJo Dee (Vice-Chair) [email protected] 01453 861566 Juliet Browne [email protected] 01453 860710 JIMMike DEWEY Griffiths [email protected]@stroud.gov.uk01453 860463 01453 860795 David Lungley [email protected] 07971 780825 COUNTYTim Martin [email protected] 07772 268473 Janet Wood [email protected] 01453 860236 LORAINEDistrict Councillor PATRICK loraine.patrick@gloucestershire.gov.uk 01453 546995 Martin Pearcy cllr.martin.pearcy@stroud.gov.uk COMMUNITYCounty Councillor WELL-BEING AGENT Wendy Thomas [email protected] AMBER WALTERS [email protected] 07817866354 Stroud District Council - Neighbourhood Warden OtherAndrew InformationBeamish [email protected] 07834 419332 Community Wellbeing TheEmail: Parish [email protected] Council normally meets Tel:in 0345the 863Village 8323 Hall on the first Wednesday of theUley month Parish at Council 7:00pm, Meetings however for the foreseeable future Council meetings are beingThe Parish held Council online meets using in the “Zoom”. Village Hall You on the are first very Wednesday welcome of the to attend online. Details of monththe meetings at 7:00pm. Youcan are be very found welcome on to the attend. notice Details boards of the meetings at either end of the village or oncan the be Uley found villageon the notice website boards at:at either www.uleyparishcouncil.gov.uk end of the village or on the Uley village website at: www.uleyparishcouncil.gov.uk

The December edition of the The June edition of the Messenger is available to download from: https://www.gloucester.anglican.org/parish-resources/communications/#messengerdownload from: Please note, articles submitted by individuals do not necessarily represent 2 the views or policies of the Church and / or Parish Council.

From the Editor

I’ve had a few inquiries for advertising article about the project to record in the Village News this month, so local stone stiles which has been I thought it would be helpful to set submitted this month. out the costs for placing adverts. The prices below are per month and they We are always keen to include can be placed for as many months as pieces from members of the you would like. local community and we would particularly like to feature local Quarter page (portrait) - £5 photographs or artwork on the cover. Half page (landscape) - £10 Full page (portrait) - £20 Please send articles, notices or adverts in by the 10th of each month The funds raised go towards the to [email protected] printing costs, with the remainder of the costs being covered by the This month’s cover photo, of Church and the Parish Council. the carpet of buttercups on the Millenium Green, was taken by Notices for local events, such as the Stephen Jones. Village Show and fundraising events, are free and will be sized to fit the I hope you can enjoy the easing of space available. Contributions which restrictions and stay safe. are of local interest are also included for free, such as the interesting Angela Parish of Uley with Owlpen and Nympsfield Churches of St Giles, Holy Cross and St Bartholomew

The Rev’d Canon Michael Cozens Churchwardens T: 01453 546459 Mrs P Thomas, T: 860047 E: [email protected] Mrs A Hardy, T: 860876

Parish day off - Friday All bookings for the Church and St Messages listened to daily Giles Room to Marion Kee, T: 860364, E: [email protected]

www.ewelmebenefice.co.uk

3 A Letter from Tony King

Dear friends does get a look in on his own back in January with The Conversion As I write this, we are one week away of St. Paul on the 25th.and the from the next stage in the relaxation Lectionary does allow Peter to be of the Coronavirus rules. If all goes commemorated alone on 29th June. well, we shall be able to do more, The old Book of Common Prayer to mix more and, hopefully, relax lectionary also had Peter on his own some of the restrictions currently on this day. Originally the feast day controlling our church services. celebrated the martyrdom of both saints in Rome, which may go some I don’t think it will actually allow us way in explaining the mystery. to dispense with social distances and/or masks, but maybe we shall We know quite a lot about Paul and be allowed to sing. That’s one of the Peter, a bit about John the Baptist things I’ve missed most – while it’s and hardly anything about Barnabas. been nice to have a reduced choir singing on our behalf, it’s not the But there is one other same and I’ve found it very difficult commemoration which is not of a to stop myself singing behind the person. On 3rd of June the Church mask! celebrates A Day of Thanksgiving for Holy Communion – formerly We shall see – and hopefully during known as Corpus Christi or, in full in the month of June things will Ecclesiastical Latin: Dies Sanctissimi become even more relaxed. Corporis et Sanguinis Domini Iesu Christi, lit. ‘Day of the Most Holy Body As always there are a number and Blood of Jesus Christ the Lord’. of Church Feast Days in June - Barnabas the Apostle on the 11th, The Originally it was a celebration of the Birth of John the Baptist on the 24th Real Presence of the Body and Blood and Peter and Paul the Apostles on of Christ in the Eucharist. This caused the 29th. Quite why Peter and Paul the celebration to be dropped during (both of rather more significance the Reformation – the Church of than Barnabas, in my humble England abolished it in 1548, but it opinion) have to share a feast day is was later re-instated under the name a bit of a mystery. In fairness, Paul ‘Thanksgiving for Holy Communion’.

4 It seems perhaps strange to have this in the service. It’s hardly a time of celebration when the celebrations on rejoicing. Maundy Thursday also incorporate a thanksgiving for Holy Communion. It was this fact that caused the We hear the gospel narrative about Church in in 13th century to start the Last Supper our Lord gave to celebrating the feast day of Corpus his disciples, with the injunction ‘Do Christi. this in remembrance of me’ and our Responses and prayers give thanks In many places on this day there are for this. So why is there another feast processions in the streets with public day? prayers and the Holy Sacrament - The Body of Christ - is carried aloft In fact, the institution of the for all to see. Eucharist at the Last Supper is observed on Maundy Thursday in a It is certainly different from Maundy sombre atmosphere leading to Good Thursday! Friday. The liturgy on that day also commemorates Christ’s washing A prayer from the liturgy for the day: of the disciples’ feet, the institution of the priesthood and the agony May Christ, who has nourished us in the Garden of Gethsemane. Yes, with the living bread, make us one in the institution of Holy Communion praise and love. is remembered, but it is rather swamped by all the other elements Tony King

From the Registers

Recently Departed: Doreen Hester Davies, Terry Davies, John Flood Ken Dunn, Barbara Harris, Joyce Holloway, Lucy Winifred Horler, Those whose Year’s Mind falls in Ernest Frederick Hunn, June: Eleanor Temple-Carrington, Joscelin Adams, Beryl Ashton, Ethel White, Wendy Balm, Mike Louis Beeston, Barbara Wright, Joyce Poultney Margaret Beatrice Billett,

5 Church News from Canon Michael

St Giles’ ‘Access for All’ project Music in church and a return to Inside this edition of the Village News Evensong you will find a leaflet giving details of Although we are currently still the project we are planning for your not able to sing together as a village church. The members of St congregation in church, we have Giles wanted to share this exciting been very blessed by having a small project with the wider community as group of singers (following Covid we are soon going to be able to start guidelines) who have sung a couple work. The leaflet gives details of the of hymns during our Sunday services. plans, although we are doing well, This month, on Sunday 27th June, we there is still some money to raise! are trying a different Sunday pattern The legacy of just over £100,000 was with a communion service for the intended for work like this including Benefice in St James in Dursley at improving disabled access. We have 10am and Evensong (with some received other grants including a music) in Holy Cross in Owlpen at generous donation of £2,000 from 6pm. Why not walk over to join us! The Spirit of Uley fund and we hope to hear positive responses from other potential funders. We do need Annual Meetings postponed to your help! Any donations would be June very much appreciated, as well as Due to Covid restrictions not allowing suggestions of where to apply for us to hold a meeting in person on funding. We’re putting together a 16th May, we decided to reschedule ‘shopping list’ of things that people the Annual Meeting of Parishioners might like to help with buying; to Sunday 20th June at 11.30am. It anything from a box of screws to a will be immediately followed by the piece of limestone paving! If you Annual Parochial Church Meeting know of anyone who might be (APCM) at which the 2020 annual interested in seeing the leaflet, it is accounts will be presented, PCC available on the Ewelme Benefice members will be elected and reports website www.ewelmebenefice.co.uk on aspects of church life will be or pop into St Giles and help yourself received. These meetings will be to some printed copies. Very many held in St Giles. All those who live thanks. in the parish of Uley with Owlpen

6 and Nympsfield are entitled to possibly on Saturday 12th June, attend the first meeting to elect when you can come to explore the the Churchwardens. Those whose churchyard around St Giles. We names are on the church electoral hope to hold a ‘bug count’ amongst roll are able to attend the second other things and also to chat about meeting. our plans for wilding an area of the churchyard and introducing Explore the churchyard at St Giles ‘designer bug hotels’ to encourage As part of a national initiative and more wildlife. More details will also our own decision to focus some appear on our weekly news sheet attention on our churchyards, we and the Ewelme Benefice website are hoping to hold a day this month, www.ewelmebenefice.co.uk

OWLPEN COFFEE MORNING Saturday 3rd July 10.30 am – 12 noon Lampern House GL11 5BX

Plants, Cakes, Lewis & Wood Fabric, Raffle, Tea & Coffee, Bacon Butties, Beauty Bar, Pony Rides, Owl Trail and Games (including the legendary Chad Valley Horse Racing)

Fun for all the Family

Proceeds for the Parish of Uley with Owlpen and Nympsfield

7 Uley Parish Council News

Election Update: New Uley Parish The Councillors have taken the Council Chairperson decision to cancel the June meeting of Council and the next scheduled Following the recent elections and meeting of the Parish Council will be the annual meeting of Uley Parish on Wednesday 7th July at 7pm in the Council, the Parish now has a new Village Hall. Chairperson; Cllr Melanie Paraskeva. Cllr Paraskeva was unanimously voted Jonathan Dembrey as Chair of Uley Parish Council at our annual meeting on Wednesday 12th Our hard working Chair Jonathan May succeeding the outgoing Chair, Dembrey is retiring . He served on the Jonathan Dembrey. PC for 9 years, which is an average of 3 hours a month sitting in meetings. Cllr Jo Dee was appointed Vice- That’s 36 hours of meetings a year and Chair to the Council and our newest approximately 324 hours of sitting Parish Councillor, David Lungley was down ( not to mention all the time attending his first meeting since being spent on emails and phone calls!) . So elected. we are going to release him from any more sitting down.. The meeting was the first opportunity for our newly elected County and District Councillors to introduce themselves to the Parish Council. Cllr Wendy Thomas will be representing Uley at Gloucestershire County Council and Cllr Martin Pearcy will be representing Uley at Stroud District Council.

Uley Parish Council would like to thank the outgoing Councillors Loraine Patrick (GCC) and Jim Dewey (SDC) for their contribution to Uley during the last term of office.

The meeting was the first face to face Retiring Parish Council chairman Jonathan meeting of the Parish Council since Dembrey is presented by his successor March 2020 and was held adhering to Melanie Paraskeva with a framed map of Uley; current social distancing guidelines. a gift from his fellow councillors.

8 A farewell ode to JD, As we set our Countless planning applications, leader free: And some very heated conversations! Twice, he had to guide us through From each parish council meeting A stormy change of clerk, To benches and the village seating, Yet our Parish ship stayed afloat, From stacking chairs at village hall, Just like the Cutty Sark! To each resident’s anxious call. He couldn’t take us any higher From the siting of the mast So the time has come, to now retire. To the gorilla which was cast, We will be sad to see him go, Out of stone, and on the green But he’ll be here still, for us we know. Although not everyone was keen. So JD, it’s not goodbye, From his desk at Sheepscombe Farm It’s merely ‘Au revoir’, He made sure we all stayed calm.From We know where you live replacing loo rolls at the playing field, And it’s really not that far! To making sure each deal was sealed. All that remains for us to say, Is a heartfelt thankyou in our village way.

A new adventure every day!

We are looking for an enthusiastic and hard-working Deputy AManager/Play new adventure leader every to join day! a busy and long-established playgroup in Uley (29 hours a week, term time only). We are looking for an enthusiastic and hard-working Deputy Manager/Play leader to join a If you have a Level 3 in Early Years Childcare Development and busyEducation and long plus- atestablished least two years’ playgroup experience in Uley of working (29 hours with achildren week, term time only). aged 2 – 4 years, please email your CV to Nicola Wood at: manager@ Ifuleyplaygroup.co.uk you have a Level 3 in Early Years Childcare Development and Education plus at least two years’ experience of working with children aged 2 – 4 years, please email your CV to Child Welfare is paramount and all applicants will undergo a criminal Nicolarecords Wood check. at: [email protected]

Child Welfare is paramount and all applicants will undergo a criminal records check. 9 The Gloucestershire Stone Stile Project

Could you help to discover more stile is the step stile and again Stone Stiles in Gloucestershire? some of these can be tricky to climb over. For centuries these stiles have In 2020 Peter Wilson, launched ‘The provided access to locals walking Gloucestershire Stone Stile Project’. along pathways as they went about Supported by CPRE Gloucestershire their business whilst preventing the Countryside Charity, English sheep and cattle from straying Heritage and the Cotteswold further afield. Naturalists Field Club, Peter’s aim was to produce a record of You may come across some or every remaining stone stile in all of these types of stone stiles Gloucestershire before they are in and around Uley, Owlpen & lost forever. Through support from Nympsfield. volunteers and members of these groups and other keen walkers he has received over 800 contributions. Any ‘duplicate’ stiles recorded are welcome as the picture submitted may have been taken at a different time of year accompanied with more historical information about the stile. No-one knows for sure how many stiles there were originally as despite their historic value, scores of them have been abandoned and some now lost forever. It’s thought however there are at least 100 more stone stiles yet to be mapped.

There are three main types of stone stiles: slit stiles are usually two upright stones too narrow for farm animals to pass through, slab stiles vary in height and can prove difficult to negotiate even for the most energetic walker! The less common Slit Stile by Maggie Booth

10 So if you are out walking and you you came across the stile. The next spot a stone stile, or if you know of an phase of the project is to produce existing stile, please photograph it, if an interactive App from all the possible from both sides. Download information received. The App will a Stile Recording Form by going encourage more people to explore to the CPRE website, https://www. our wonderful county adding to their cpreglos.org.uk/creating-a-record-of- enjoyment of country walks. It will gloucestershire-stone-stiles/ Please also help wheelchair and scooter give as much information as possible users and families with children in before emailing the form to: peter. buggies to plan their walks. wilson@woodchestervalleyvillage. co.uk There are many stiles out there just waiting to be discovered but please Peter is also looking for information do remember the Country Code – on the history, geology and the Respect other people, Protect the landscape setting of each stone natural environment, Follow advice as well as its precise OS location. and local signs and Obey social Don’t worry if you’re not able to distancing regulations. give all that information but he would like to know exactly where Maggie Booth

Step Stile by Fay Britten Slab Stile by Susan Lang

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Parish of Uley with Owlpen & Nympsfield

A week of fun & activities for 5-11 year olds. Please bring a packed lunch (drinks/snacks provided)

For more information or to reserve a space, contact Liz Rymer on 860520 12 Uley Community Stores & Post Office Diary Tel Shop: 861592 | Tel Post Office: 860203 (Eileen, Ailsa, Carolyn and Angela) www.uleycommunitystores.co.uk | Run by Volunteers

Further to the Open Letter regarding Although restrictions are now starting to the future of the shop you may be aware ease, we will be keeping to the measures that the shop premises have recently that have been set in place for the been put on the market for sale. There foreseeable future. Still keep to the 2 are 2 sale options listed: Firstly the metre social distancing whilst queuing shop and accommodation combined outside, 1 in for the shop turning right and secondly the accommodation to and 1 in for the PO turning left. be sold separately. Whilst this implies the shop lease could be renewed as a Note the wearing of masks and hand separate transaction it is not certain. sanitising continues to be mandatory The Committee is fully aware of these inside all shops. developments and will provide a further communication in the near future as As I have said to the volunteers, we are all more information becomes available. still in this for the long haul and must not get complacent!!! Volunteer’s week is here once again, June 1st to the 7th. It always gives me “STAY SAFE” great pleasure to say a big “THANK YOU” to all our volunteers on behalf of the If you have any suggestions at this time Committee (who are also volunteers) or for any new items you’d like stocked and all our customers. Especially during please let us know. The shop has flour!! these extremely testing times, your commitment and contribution as a Check the website for further updates. volunteer really makes a difference to the Uley Community Stores and our Shop Opening Hours wonderful village. I must not forget our Monday to Friday: 8am - 5.30pm wonderful ladies in the Post Office for Saturdays: 8am – 1 pm their dedication especially as they are on Sundays: 9am – 12pm the front line all day. Post Office Opening Hours As I mentioned in last month’s issue. Monday to Friday: 9am – 5.30pm We welcome back some customers and (Wednesdays closes 4.30pm) indeed volunteers now they’ve had their (Closed everyday for lunch 1pm – 2pm) 2nd vaccination after shielding for so Saturdays: 9am – 12.30pm long, regaining confidence in joining Sundays: Closed the outside world again. We all need to show them respect, consideration and patience. Pami Davis 13 Uley Annual Show Saturday 11th September Opens at 2pm at Uley Village Hall

Tea & cake available

Entries close Thursday 9th September Queries to Moya Wallis 861675

Organised by The Uley Society Registered Charity No.: 295000

VEGETABLES (Cup) 14) 6 berries (e.g. raspberries) Sponged and with foliage removed. 15) 6 apples (named variety) Uniformity in colour, size, shape and 16) 6 pears (named variety) condition. 17) 3 rhubarb stalks 1) 6 named edible herbs (in a vase) 18) Any other fruit 2) 4 carrots 3) 1 sweetcorn cob FLOWERS (Cup) 4) 1 pumpkin or squash 19) 6 named flowers in a vase 5) 2 courgettes 20) 6 sweet peas in a vase 6) 5 runner beans 21) 1 specimen rose in a vase 7) One bowl home-grown salad 22) A spray of floribunda roses in a 8) 4 chillies vase 9) 3 potatoes (named variety) 23) 4 rose blooms of different varieties 10) Longest runner bean in a vase 11) Any other vegetable 24) A specimen of any flower not listed, in a vase FRUIT (Patrick Cason Cup) 25) 4 stems of any one variety not Uniformity in colour, size, shape and listed, in a vase, no foliage condition. 26) Specimen house plant 12) 6 tomatoes (retain stalks) 13) 6 small tomatoes

14 FLOWER ARRANGEMENT (Cup) 45) 6 squares of fudge (any flavour) 27) Miniature arrangement (10cm 46) 6 fruit scones (fluted cutters) maximum spread) 47) 6 cheese scones (plain cutters) 28) Arrangement in any container 48) 3 savoury tartlets using flowers of one colour 49) 6 cheese straws plus foliage (maximum 50 x 50) Any savoury vegan item (labelled) 50cm) 51) Any savoury loaf of bread 29) Create a hand-tied bouquet that (labelled) is designed to be handheld 30) Arrangement in a basket (45cm HANDICRAFTS (Cup) maximum) 52) A string of bunting (folded) 31) Make a seasonal wreath using all 53) A Christmas tree decoration natural components 54) Any hand knitted or crochet item 32) Arrangement in any container 55) Handmade article for use or using flowers from own garden decoration in the home (max. 50 x 50cm) 56) An item from recycled materials 57) Hand-made bag or purse PRESERVES (Barbara Harris Cup) 58) Felting (wet or needle) Clean jars covered with wax disc and 59) Greetings card - any lid. Labelled with dd/mm/yy. medium 33) Marmalade - 1 jar 60) A clothing item 34) Jam - 1 jar (named) 61) An item of jewellery 35) Jelly -1 jar (named) 62) Any item not included in above 36) Lemon curd - 1 jar 37) Chutney - 1 jar (named) POEM/LIMERICK 38) Home-made fruit liqueur (e.g sloe A limerick is a humorous five line gin) poem with a rhyme scheme aabba. 63) An original 4 verse poem about COOKERY (Cup) The Song of the Uley Mills Covered with cling film. No packet 64) A limerick starting with the first mixes and state if nuts or chilli line: If everyone planted a tree... included. 39) 6 ginger cake squares Limerick example: 40) Lemon drizzle cake (loaf tin) There was a young lady of Riga 41) Victoria sponge (jam, no cream) Who went for a ride on a tiger 42) Vegetable based cake (e.g. They returned from the ride beetroot, courgette, etc.) With the lady inside 43) Flourless chocolate cake And a smile on the face of the tiger 44) 6 flapjacks Categories continue on p17...

15 Uley WI Diary May 2021

Ah! Just to be outside in the late lots of us thought it would be fun April sunshine with WI friends was to go to Hampton Court and have invigorating, but also to be able Sarah lead us on one of her guided to gaze around at the carpets of tours. Perhaps we might do this next bluebells while strolling through our year as a special outing. local woods was pure bliss. Thanks Jo Rymer and Sally Lamerton for Meanwhile, monthly on-line Zoom organising and leading many of quizzes continue to challenge our these popular walks. memories and general knowledge repertoires. Currently, many of us are rearranging dates, trying to dodge the wet and windier days of early May so we can hold more outdoor mini-gatherings in members’ gardens and beyond.

Through the WI subscription, WI members receive a monthly magazine from the National Federation of Women’s Institute (NFWI). While I have to confess to not Sarah Slater’s Zoom talk at our having found WI Life a particularly April meeting, ‘Secrets, Scandal riveting read in the past, recent and Salacious Gossip of the Royal issues seem to have developed Court’ proved hugely entertaining stronger appeal (at least for me) with as well as instructive. Dressed in a a fresher look and well-researched gorgeous period costume she had articles. For instance, the latest made herself, Sarah gave a ‘no-holds- one devotes considerable space to barred’ account of the goings-on enhancing feelings of wellbeing during the period from 1660-1830 and discusses positive, innovative at Hampton Court palace. What strategies for dealing with anxiety. comparatively sedate times we now We may be coming out of lockdown, live in – if just half those stories were but many people will still need to true! Listeners were transfixed and deal with difficult aspects of its legacy.

16 The magazine also explains how of family and friends, but perhaps members can access their ‘My WI’ it’s time to make more of an effort to platform, an on-line community for connect with the wider community. and by members. I have certainly Note to self, perhaps... appreciated the friendship and support of my Uley WI friends over For more details about joining the WI the past year and it is heartening to please contact our email address: know that WI members across the [email protected] country are reaching out to make contact with one another. It can be tempting to cling to one’s own circle Ann Warrender

Continued from p15... 8, 9, 10 & 11 Years 77) Lego model or scene (not kit) ART (Cup) 78) Choose a famous poem & write it 65) Landscape out in your best handwriting 66) Portrait 67) Abstract ULEY SCHOOL YEAR ONE 68) Iconic Uley 79) Design an Olympic Medal that reflects our values of Wisdom, PHOTOGRAPHY Friendship, Compassion and Trust. (Rosemary Bowmer Cup) All colour prints except no. 69. No. 72 OPEN CLASSES can be mounted. Maximum print 80) A design for a Uley flag size 7”x5” (18 x 13 cm). 81) Make a bug hotel 69) Black and white (any subject) 82) Design a Poster ‘How to protect 70) Clouds the planet’ 71) Pet(s) 72) Summer days (set of 3) COOKERY (all ages) 83) Bake a cake CHILDREN’S SECTION 84) Make your favourite food (Ruth Cornish Cup) 85) Amazing sandwich (named UNDER 5 YEARS 73) Potato print picture GARDENING (all ages) 74) Model made from Play-Doh 86) Something you’ve grown 87) Largest sunflower head 5, 6 & 7 YEARS 88) Your largest vegetable 75) Make a junk monster 76) Paint a Uley rock

17 Parish Matters from the Archives

The Parish Council minutes from only way a person can dispose of his 1894 to date are safely stored in sewage is to bury it in his garden. Gloucestershire Archives. Looking Uley School have only bucket through past minutes many lavatories and these have to be decisions were made over the years emptied in the Headmaster’s garden. for the benefit of the village and various enterprising events took The Swedish houses (The Knoll) place. would be commenced in two months time. Six prospective tenants names This month we take a look at the to be drawn out of a hat. Wood was years immediately following World being stolen from the site, the local War Two. police to keep an eye on this.

1946 - The tenant of The Kings It was agreed that the time had now Head suggested a car park at The come for pesons who were resident Turnpike for persons using the at The Public Assistance Institution, licensed premises. Surveyor to be Dursley, at the outbreak of war and approached. Surveyor agreed and who were later transferred to various work to be started a.s.a.p. institutions throughout the County should be brought back to Dursley, 22 tins of jam at the Council offices as relatives were finding it very sent from S.Africa for the aged and difficult to vist them at such places as needy people in the Parish. Eastington, Stow-on-the-Wold, etc.

Various Wells mentioned. (a) Bread Rationing. Proposal from Crawley (b) Buckle House (c) the Womens Institute that when Shadwell (d) near the Church) bread rationing is introduced an (e) Whitecourt (f) The Street. office should be opened one day per month in the village for exchange of Public Meeting held in October. points saving a long journey to the Sewage conditions in Uley disgusting. Food Office. Uley is the largest village in the Rural District Council area not connected 59 tins of various foodstuffs had been with the sewer. Sewage matter runs received from Queensland for Uley & down the main street constantly Owlpen for distribution to the old and giving off an offensive smell. The needy.

18 Inspection of the building site in Uley Footpaths. It was agreed to parade found the lavatory overflowing and in all footpaths in the parish that had a disgusting condition in full view of been ploughed up in order to re- passers by. establish public rights.

1947 - Secretary of the Flower Show Decided to install street lighting in Committee requested the permission the village. The lighting would have from the Council for use of The Green to be gas as the electric was not in a for the Uley Feast. Agreed to let The position to supply light at the present Green to the Amusement Proprietor time. for the sum of £5. 1949 - Complaints from tenants of Playing Field. The Council’s Nos. 9 & 10 The Knoll that the walls & application for compulsory purchase ceilings were falling in. powers had been granted by the County Council and was now To be continued next month ….. awaiting confirmation by the Minister of Health. Margaret Groom

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23 The Ewelme Benefice Parish of Uley with Owlpen and Nympsfield Churches of St Giles, Holy Cross and St Bartholomew The Revd Canon Michael Cozens - 01453 546459 [email protected] Churchwardens - Ann Hardy 01453 860876, Pauline Thomas 01453 860047 www.ewelmebenefice.co.uk

June 2021 Services Sunday 6th June 1st Sunday after Trinity St Bartholomew in 10.00am Parish Holy Communion Nympsfield Sunday 13th June 2nd Sunday after Trinity St Giles 10.00am Parish Holy Communion Sunday 20th June 3rd Sunday after Trinity St Giles 10.00am Parish Holy Communion 11.30am Annual Meetings (postponed from May) Sunday 27th June 4th Sunday after Trinity St James, Dursley 10.00am Benefice Holy Communion Holy Cross, Owlpen 6.00pm BCP Evensong

Booking for services each week is still required via the Parish Office.

These arrangements may have to be changed as they are subject to national guidelines and the Government Roadmap out of lockdown. Please continue to regularly check our website www.ewelmebenefice.co.uk

Church opening times: Church Activities St Giles is open daily 10am – 3pm Saturday 5th June in Holy Cross Baptisms, Weddings and Funerals 2pm Wedding of Simon Braithwaite and by arrangement. Please contact Canon Henrietta Mann Michael Sunday 20th June 11.30am in St Giles Parish Administration Annual Meeting of Parishioners to elect Please contact the Parish Office: Churchwardens, followed by the Annual [email protected] Parochial Church Meeting 01453 549280 When the office is closed, emails will still Up to date information can be found on be answered and messages picked up. our website: www.ewelmebenefice.co.uk

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