In this issue... Welcome to the December 2015 edition of Your Berkhamsted
It is that time of year again and Christmas is around the corner. In this edition we have a review on the Old Mill, which is definitely a pub worth visiting – great food and lovely setting. We have included a walk which is a good excuse to work off the festive over-eating during and after Christmas. Our resident history expert, Jenny Sherwood, tells us about another house in Berkhamsted, another wonderful story of Berkhamsted’s past. Our What’s On page shows events in December in and around Berkhamsted, also look out for YB tweets on @Yourberkhamsted. Please see email below and get in touch if there are any ideas or stories you may have, either to publish or additions/changes to the magazine for consideration. Have a wonderful Christmas and New Year! Jacqueline Hicks, Editor, [email protected] Berkhamsted in the News 3 What’s On 7 & 8 Book Review 9 Berkhamsted Local History & Museum Society 11 – 12 Winter Walk 13 – 15 Short Story 15 – 16 Book Review 16 Your Berkhamsted Clergy 17 Parish Pages 18 & 19 Hospice News 20 & 21 A Christmas Poem 23 Your Charities 25 Pub News 27 Review of The Old Mill 28 Your Garden 29 Your Sport 30 Berkhamsted School News 31
Front cover: Thank you to Mary Casserley for her wonderful winter scene. Look for more of her work on www.marycasserley.com
The Town and Parish Magazine of St Peter's Great Berkhamsted Responsibility for opinions expressed in articles and letters published in this magazine and for the accuracy of any statements in them rests solely with the individual contributor. 2 Berkhamsted in the News Julian Dawson
A distinguished start to this month’s on the discovery of a lost cartoon in the column, with that fine nature writer British Film Institute’s archive. This has Richard Mabey contributing a piece to been widely reported on the netosphere. newstatesman.com. He writes a Considered the holy grail of lost rarities, fascinating article on the beech tree, a the short “Sleigh Bells” is thought to be 400 year old example on the Ashridge the origins of Mickey Mouse. It was Estate being the prototype for Harry spotted by a Disney researcher whilst Potter’s Whomping Willow no less. I searching the online catalogue. Ah, the heartily recommend his book “The Barley virtues of a well indexed catalogue, says Bird”, the Suffolk name for the the professional librarian within me. nightingale. A book of myth, ecology, and Metadata is everything you know. heart-felt experience. Including a hertsandessexobserver.co.uk features a description of the famous war recording contribution by our own Ashlyns School of distinguished cellist Beatrice Harrison to road safety. “Don’t be a road monster” playing in her garden accompanied by a is a light hearted film written and nightingale whilst the drone of bombers produced by students at the school, with can be heard overhead. It is one of the the help of 92 fellow pupils. Funded by most spine tingling recordings I have ever the county council, “the children are heard. Search for it on Youtube. asking their parents and carers to think hemeltoday.co.uk reports on the about their behaviour when driving and Berkhamsted Lions honouring one of parking around schools in Hertfordshire their own. The Melvin Jones Fellowship and where possible to think about has been awarded to John Beach, who alternative ways of getting to school such has served unflinchingly for 36 years. as walking or cycling” according to Who are the people who will replace highways cabinet member Terry Douris. these selfless individuals. Are we Having faced the gamut of four-wheeled becoming a nation of individuals drive monstrosities as I walk to the wrapped up in our own stressful station every morning, I can whole existence that we can no longer share heartedly endorse that!! out talents where they are most wanted. The blog carolinanaturally.blogspot.co.uk/ reports (Continued on page 5) 3
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Take a stroll through the woodland Wed 9 Dec at 8pm - Black Plumes and discovering more about winter and Victorian Mourning - Robert Stephenson Christmas time at Ashridge. Visit the of Kensal Green Cemetery. Town Hall. Ashridge Visitor Centre to collect your www.berkhamsted-history.org.uk Annual trail map and follow the trail, answer the sub £7, double £12. Visitors £2.50 at door. questions and return to collect your DC Christmas reward. No need to book, just turn up. For Ashridge and a full list of events (Continued on page 8) please visit www.nationaltrust.org.uk/ 7 What’s on , continued …….
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8 Book Review
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To end the series on houses in the centre A plan of 1867 shows stables, a billiards of Berkhamsted, which no longer exist, room, harness room, coach house, we turn to Highfield House, a house cottages, laundry, drying ground, about which little remains in the History paddock, lawn, vinery and large kitchen Society archives. Compared with the gardens, so Highfield House was not other large houses near the town centre really as insignificant as it might initially Highfield House had little of particular appear. At that time Alfred Compigne distinction or architectural merit to lived there. commend it. We have only one From the 1851 census we learn that John photograph taken of the rear view in Hyde was a superannuated civil officer, 1937 shortly before it was demolished. It presumably previously having worked in was not particularly large although both London. With John and his wife Mary the 1841 and the 1851 censuses show were living his daughter also Mary, her that the household supported five husband William Watson, who was servants. Secretary in the Merchant Seaman’s Highfield House probably dates from the Office, also no doubt commuting to th late 18 century and was a two- storey London by train. There were three structure, which featured plum and red children, two boys and a girl, aged 6, 3, chequered brickwork and a Welsh slate and 2, all born in Berkhamsted, which roof. The name Heifield first appears in means the Watsons had been in th 16 century documents, but that does Berkhamsted since 1845 if not before. not necessarily mean there was a house William was Secretary in the Merchant on that site. Seamen’s Office, presumably also commuting to London. William Watson The house stood above the old part of was also very interested in the history of Highfield Road, or Prospect Place as it Berkhamsted and had a copy of John was originally called. At the top of the Wolstenholme Cobb’s History & road was the tradesmen’s entrance to the Antiquities of Berkhamsted which he was house and conveniently on the right hand grangerising. side was the Chaffcutter’s Arms where they could quench their thirst after the We have this book, which belonged to long haul up the hill. The main carriage William and can see various prints which drive was from Three Close Lane just he added in to embellish and add to above the footpath, which links that lane Cobb’s text. At the back of the book is a with Victoria Road. Both Victoria Road handwritten note from the Rev. Cobb to and Highfield Road were cul-de-sacs and William Watson giving him a print, which their extension was only possible once he thought he might like to fix into the the house had been demolished. book. (Continued on page 12) 11 (Continued from page 11) the other side of the cemetery giving access to the Rectory. Did they predate By the time of the 1871 census Alfred the cemetery? Prospect Place was the Compigne was living at Highfield House. first new road on the south side of the He was clerk to the newly opened High Street and was already in occupation Waterworks, presumably those in at the time of the 1851 census. The Berkhamsted. By 1881 his occupation was houses and the Wesleyan, or Prospect given as Clerk to the School Board. The Chapel, as it is sometimes known, was last person to live in Highfield House, also built about the same time on land according to Kelly’s Directory, before its sold off for housing development. demolition, was James Whittal. It was
after his death that the house was Jenny Sherwood, Berkhamsted Museum and demolished in 1937. History Society I am sure there is much more to unearth about this house. Only very recently a Working Party from the Rectory Lane Cemetery Project discovered steps leading out from the cemetery to the site of Highfield House. These mirrored steps
12 Winter Walk
Captain’s Wood, Chesham PUBLIC TRANSPORT: No direct bus service This wonderful, varied walk takes in to the start. Buses 149/194 do, however, ancient field patterns and hedges, old provide a service to Bellingdon. Please earthworks and the home of a famous check timetables. author, as well as looking at the work Route carried out by Chiltern Society volunteers. Exit the pub car park and turn right down START: The Black Horse Inn, Chesham the road for c100m. Vale, Bucks HP5 Turn right over a stile, continue ahead to 3NS. Grid ref SP 963 045. The landlord cross the next one and then follow the has given permission to park at the far transmission cables up to the top of the end of the car park hill. Go over the stile on the right into the DISTANCE: 5.7 miles, with c140m of next field. Turn right and continue uphill, ascent keeping to the left of the hedge. Follow TERRAIN: An easy walk, with two gentle the field edge round to the left to a gap in climbs and one steep descent the hedgerow and turn right through it. MAPS: OS Explorer 181 and Chiltern Continue straight across the middle of Society 8 and 17 two fields to a kissing gate. Go through it REFRESHMENTS: None on the walk, but and the next one directly ahead. the landlord of the Black Horse would be Turn left and follow the hedgerow, delighted to serve you! passing through two further gates, all the way 13 down to the bottom of the hill. Turn right Turn right down the drive to a busy and follow the valley floor for 400m to road.Cross it, go through a kissing gate cross a stile to a wide track: Hawridge opposite and follow the wide track round Lane. to the left. After 200m, follow the track Turn left along the track as it climbs gently round to the right. Go past a field gate and then continue to a busy road. Cross and stile, and continue to the entrance of with care, turn left along the verge and a wood. Go over the stile and then then right into Two Gates Lane. After straight ahead for c170m. 100m bear left and follow the lane as it As the main track swings to the left, bear bends left and then right. Continue for right to exit the wood at a field edge. c150m to a kissing gate on the left. Follow the fence down to a kissing gate Go through it and across the middle of and onwards to meet a byway. Turn right the field to the next gate. On the other to reach a busy, narrow road. Taking great side, bear diagonally left to a gate in the care, turn left along it to return to the corner of the field. Go through it and stay Black Horse. care, turn left along it to in the same general direction past the return to the Black Horse.
next four gates to meet a wide track. Turn Points of Interest right along the track and where it bends The Black Horse pub is over 500 years old to the left, keep straight ahead through a and reputed to be the oldest in the gate. The path then emerges at the top of Chilterns. The current building dates from a field. the 18th century. Mind your head on the Turn left and follow the hedgerow along low beams! In medieval times, most of the top of the hill for over 800m. Just the land in Chesham Vale was farmed before a hedgerow joins from the valley using an open-field system, where there floor, bear left into Captain’s Wood. Stay was a mixture of common fields and on the wide track for another 800m, narrow strips. These strips, sometimes ignoring all paths left and right and always called lynchets, were usually cultivated by maintaining the same height. the tenants of the Lord of the Manor. This The path then sweeps to the right by a area is also known for its ancient line of garages on the brow of the hill. hedgerows, some of which could be 1,000 Here, turn sharply left and go gently uphill years old. Recently they were the subject to a playing field. Keep to the left of a of a survey carried out by local people on playground and cross to the far right-hand behalf of the Buckinghamshire & Milton corner of the field. Go past a barrier on Keynes Biodiversity Partnership. the right to an access road. Turn left, go Hawridge: To the right of the second gate through the smaller gate and continue are the grounds of Hawridge Court, a ahead. Just before the path swings to the medieval manor house dating from the left, turn right through a large metal field 13th century. It’s enclosed by an earlier gate. Go through the smaller gate directly ringwork, comprising a single rampart and opposite into a field. Bear left across the ditch. Hawridge gets its name from the corner of the field and over a stile. Stay in Anglo-Saxon Aucrug which means ‘ridge the same direction, bear to the right of a frequented by hawks’. paddock and go through a gate onto the Hawridge Lane: On the left at the top of drive to Mount Nugent Farm. the hill is Animal Farm. This is a small 14 farm producing a wide variety of free- perhaps it came from a local landowner, range meat. Further along on the left Captain Spratly. Captain’s Wood is an an- are Bellingdon Farm Cottages. They are cient woodland and, since 1995, a desig- Grade II listed and date from the 17th nated nature reserve. Its lower bank is century. DH Lawrence rented one of one of the most diverse hedgerows in the them between August 1914 and Janu- Chilterns and may date back to the 7th ary 1915, during which time he wrote century. Since spring 2013, the Chiltern The Rainbow. Society has been organising regular con- Bellingdon: The walk passes Bellingdon servation working parties to ensure the Farm and Bloomfield Farm. Like many Wood is kept open for all. farmhouses in the area they were built Ramscoat Wood: At the entrance to the during the 16th and 17th centuries and Wood were the Baker family brickworks, both are Grade II listed. Bellingdon is which, it is said, made the finest bricks in famous for its brickworks, the last one Chesham. They were used in the con- of which, HG Matthews, is nearby. struction of Park Royal Underground Sta- Captain’s Wood: There is little evidence tion in London. to show how the Wood got its name; ****** Short Story Short Story/Poem all over Europe? Surely I could cope? The short story holds an important place In the kitchen, amid howls from in English literature. From Edgar Allan Poe Catherine, our two week old daughter, I to Kate Mosse, writers down the ages added garlic to an overheated pan and have turned their attention to this form. bitterness filled the kitchen. A pot of wa- It's now "Your Berkhamsted's" turn! We ter boiled over, the washing machine are asking our readers to let us publish beeped and our misnamed cat, Tiny, their work. Don't let inexperience put you cornered his latest prey that sought ref- off trying. Your subject can be humour, uge by an overflowing laundry basket. My adventure, love, fun, mystery or just an simmering hormones erupted and as I intriguing situation. Around 700 words, sniveled without reason or care, a button and anonymous if you wish. Let's write popped off my favourite skirt I’d spent the morning squeezing into. lots of stories and enjoy the reads.
I rubbed my eyes, forgetting the dawn Baby Blues by Sandra Smith effort I’d made to apply a smattering of
David lay sprawled across the sofa whilst mascara. And to think my flawless ap- focusing on the mother-of-all-televisions. pearance used to be as legendary as my At my insistence, a muddy scrum took organisational skills. precedence over domesticity for what It was another overpowering pong that better way could my husband wind down brought me back to reality. I picked up my after a hectic week of business meetings baby from her Moses basket but this time the culprit was Raddish, our flatulent (Continued on Page 16) 15 (Continued from page 15) little princess.” mongrel. Amazing how a dog’s innocent Horrified, I watched David place a dummy gaze belies the whiff they generate. He in Catherine’s mouth. My maternal acknowledged the offence by exploring instinct descended into a spiral of doubt his male zone. as my muddled mind hovered between Shouts of delight from David indicated his anger and anxiety. I wanted to accuse him team’s victory and I recalled a recent yet of interfering but my senses were distant time when I, too, would have swamped with unwanted tears. In shared his enjoyment at watching a rugby contrast, however, our baby stopped match. Now I was absorbed in the life we crying, instead concentrating on her new had enjoyed creating together rather best friend with gummy enthusiasm. than the rules of a sport I could no longer Within a few moments her eyelids recall. drooped and she drifted into sleep. Her I cuddled my daughter. She was even breathing soothed the atmosphere. distressed, I was distraught and my David lay Catherine down in her basket tomato sauce was a disgrace. I stared at and gathered me in his arms. an ingredient-challenged fridge but my “Perhaps I should have bought one for brain was as vacant as the shelves. her mum,” he teased. My face puckered Mopping my moist cheeks I inadvertently like a chocolate-deprived toddler and I dragged a dripping spoon across my wondered if I’d ever feel like a full-on unwashed hair. Another surge of emotion female again. sent me slumping to my knees and My handsome husband dabbed my eyes Raddish hurried over to lick an and held me to him. unexpected treat from my head. “Don’t take it personally if the pets refuse It was a while later when clearing up leftovers tonight,” he joked. rodent remains that David strode into the We laughed. Maybe my sense of humour kitchen, a smile reflecting his team’s hadn’t evaporated with the abandoned victory. tomato sauce after all. “Pasta again, is it?” he asked and forked “Look, I know you insisted I should out a strand to taste. He grimaced and continue to work as normal but I want to grinned in quick succession before be here to help so I’ve booked paternity spitting out the spaghetti. leave for a couple of weeks – no, don’t “Salt might have worked better than argue - and tomorrow we’re having a sugar,” he chuckled and reached for takeaway. Oh, and you must promise me another pan which he filled with water. you’ll sleep whenever Catherine naps.” With our baby continuing her lung As our canine’s tail whipped against my practice, David gathered his daughter unshaven legs, I wiped my cheeks sending from my weary arms. She stared at him, make-up streaking across my hand. “I her soggy face seeking comfort. He love you.” David’s words were as tender whispered in her ear. The gesture was as his kisses and soon a hint of forgotten vaguely familiar. He rummaged in his passion reminded me that, one day, briefcase. normality would return. “I stopped at the pharmacy on the way home. Thought this might console our www.TheCurrentMrsSmith.co.uk 16 Your Berkhamsted Clergy I really should be preoccupied with thing, he faced persecution, which I Christmas at the moment, but there's happily don't, though tens of thousands something else on my mind. You see, it's of Christians still do. But more been three and a half years since I came fundamentally, he was displaced by his to Berkhamsted, and now my time is up. very nature. One December, the God of My training period as a curate is over. So God and light of light was born in the instead of fretting about crib services and darkness of a cave behind a pub. The turkeys, my little family and I are getting darkness of this world was never where ready to move to London where I will take he belonged, and in the end, it's not on a church of my own. where we belong, either. So he came to bring us back to the light. I never expected to be in Berkhamsted. As a London ordinand, I thought I'd be going Jesus didn't really belong to his biological back to an inner-city parish. To be honest, family, either. You get a sense of that in I hadn't even heard of Berkhamsted until the Virgin Birth. It's not that his family the vice-principal of my seminary told me wasn't important to him, but he found a that his friend, Fr Michael Bowie, had a larger and more important family in those job going there. He thought it would suit who followed him and believed in him. me - and it has. It's been a good place to They, he said, are his true brothers and train: supportive colleagues and Parish sisters. And so he gave us the Church, a Council, a large and mixed congregation, a worldwide family, as the vehicle that great choir and beautiful worship, two would bring us all to the light of union church schools, plenty of weddings, with his Father. baptisms and funerals - plenty of Camden Town will be very different from opportunity to build up the basic skills of Berkhamsted, and no doubt will have a parish priest. some darker corners. But for me, it's like a But Berkhamsted has been more than move to another part of the family, going that. It's been our home. We'll miss the off to live with some other distant countryside and canal, the local shops and relatives. Relatives don't always get along, pubs, the markets, the friends we've but since I became a Christian in 2005, made. Still, we have to move on. It's one one of the joys has been in the kindness of the strange things about being a priest: I've received from that family wherever you're dropped into the heart of a I've been in the world, from Berkhamsted community, expected to make it your to Tokyo. If you ever come to visit St home, and then a few years later, you're Michael's Camden Town, we'll do our best pulled out again to make a new start to offer you the same family hospitality. somewhere else. Something about being But in the meantime, you've got brothers in the world, but not of the world. and sisters right here at St Peter's in
From the time he started his ministry at Berkhamsted, waiting to welcome you to around the age of 30, Jesus Christ did not your place in God's spiritual home: stay in one place for very long. For one perhaps this Christmas? Fr Tom Plant, Assistant Curate, St Peter's 17 Regular Church Activities 3rd Mon Pastoral Network, 7:45pm, The Court House. Contact Philippa Seldon 871534.
Tues Chuckles Parent & Toddler Group, 10–11:30am. All Saints’ Church Hall. Song Time or short service as announced. Contact Jenny Wells, 870981. Tues St Peter’s Choir, Children 5:15–6:15pm. St Peter’s. Adrian Davis 01296 632263 or Jean Wild 866859. 3rd Tues Mothers’ Union, meet in members’ houses at 2.30pm. New members always welcome. Contact Kathie Lally, 863526. 4th Tues Mothers’ Union Prayer Group, 2:30pm. 17 Shaftesbury Court. Tell us if anyone needs your prayers. Contact Jenny Wells 870981. Wed Julian Meeting, meets about twice a month, 11:30am. All welcome. At Jenny Wells, 57 Meadow Rd, 870981 or at Ruth Treves Brown, 3 Sherwood Mews Park Street, Berkhamsted HP4 1HX Thu Bellringing, 8pm, St Peters. Contact David Burbidge 862139. Fri Little Fishes Parent & Toddler Group 9:30–11:30am. The Court House. Weekly, with short service on 1st Friday in St Peter’s (10am), Tracy Robinson 863559. Fri St Peter’s Choir, Children 7–8:30pm, Adults 7:30-8:30pm. St Peter’s. Adrian Davis 01296 632263 or Jean Wild 866859. 3rd Sat Berkhamsted Churches Prayer Breakfast, 8am, The Way Inn. Rachael Hawkins 866324. 1st Sun Sundays Together Lunch 12.30pm, Court House. For anyone on their own on a Sunday. Liz Jackson 864382. Regular Church Services St Peter's Regular Sunday services 8:00am Eucharist 9:30am Sung Eucharist and Sunday School 6:00pm Evensong
Regular weekday services Morning Prayer – Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 9:00am (St Peter’s), Tuesday 9am (All Saints’ Shrublands Road) Eucharist – Tuesday 9:30am (All Saints’); Wednesday 8:30am, (St Peter’s) Evening Prayer Monday – Friday 5.00pm – Saturday 6:00pm (St Peter’s) Key Church contacts: Parish Office, Hilary Armstrong & Kate Perera, Court House, 878227. Fr. Tim Pilkington, 01442 879739, (day off Friday), Team Rector, St Peter’s. Fr. Tom Plant, 01442 382633 (day off Monday), Curate, St Peter’s. The Revd. Rachael Hawkins, All Saints’ 01442 866324. 18 This Month’s Diary
Events at St Peter’s Church or the Court House, Berkhamsted, presented by The Cowper Society supported by the Friends of St Peter’s Mon 07 Dec at 8.00pm ORGAN RECITAL in St Peter’s Church - Nicholas King, Hemel Hempstead. Free Entry. Retiring collection. Sat 12 Dec at 8:00pm CONCERT in St Peter’s Church – Berkhamsted Choral Society with Brass Ensemble. Conductor Graham Wili. A Winter’s Night and traditional seasonal highlights. Tickets: £15, U18s & DC £8 from 07500 431643 or www.berkhamstedchoral.co.uk Wed 23 Dec at 7.30pm CONCERT in St Peter’s Church - Chiltern Chamber Choir with Bridgewater Sinfonietta, leader Philip Aird. Director Adrian Davis. J S Bach Christmas Oratorio. Kathryn Jenkin soprano, Jeanette Ager mezzo-soprano, Phillip Conway-Brown tenor, Piran Legg bass. Tickets: £15, £13 seniors in advance or £16 & £14 at the door, U18s free from Brown & Merry, 124 High St, Berkhamsted or www.chilternchamberchoir.com
Registers – St Peter’s: Baptisms: 25 th October: Milly and Thomas Shepherd; Isla Grace Thompson; Benjamin Arthur Smith Funerals: 28 th October: Ron Fisher
Services: All Saints’ : 13th December, 10am: Nativity 20th December, 4pm: Carol Service 24th December, 4pm: Crib Service; 11.30pm: Midnight Holy Communion 25th December, 10am: Christmas Day: Holy Communion
St Peter’s: Christmas Eve Crib Services: 4pm and 5:15pm . Midnight Mass: 11:30pm with the choir singing carols from 11:10pm.
Christmas Day 8:00am: Said Eucharist 9:30am: Family Eucharist with carols. Please encourage the children to bring a toy.
Sunday after Christmas: Holy Family: No 8am Eucharist or 6pm Evening Prayer 9:30am: Parish Eucharist
3rd January, The Epiphany: Fr Tom’s last Sunday with us . 8:00am: Said Eucharist 9:30am: Sung Eucharist (with incense) followed by drinks and presentation to Fr Tom 6:00pm Evening Prayer (said) Further information available from our church websites: www.stpetersberkhamsted.org.uk and www.allsaintsberkhamsted.org.uk. 19 News from the Hospice of St Francis
Christmas Care Christmas period and beyond. Just £12 The Hospice could provide toys and memory books for continues to care a bereaved child whilst £34 could pay for for patients over lunch for a family spending Christmas in the Christmas the Hospice.
season, with staff Christmas Trees and volunteers on This year, for the first time, we will be hand round the selling Christmas top quality Nordmann clock. Patients Fir, non-drop, Christmas trees from Friday staying with us 4th December, with prices starting at £30. over the Visit us at Spring Garden Lane, off Christmas period Shootersway, Berkhamsted, receive a handmade blanket and stocking Hertfordshire, HP4 3GW every day from and a special Christmas meal with all the 9am-6pm (excluding Sunday 6 th trimmings is available to families during December when sales will end at 12 the day. In addition, children we have noon). Christmas cards are also on sale in supported during the year are invited to a the Hospice’s main reception and our Christmas party where Santa makes a local shops. Our number twenty gift shop special appearance. on Lower Kings Road in Berkhamsted has We also invite anyone in our community a beautiful range of decorations and gifts. to Light up a Life by dedicating a light to remember family and friends no longer Santa Dash with us. The lights on the Hospice Get into the Christmas spirit by doing our Remembrance Tree will be illuminated 2.5 mile Santa Dash through Hemel and will burn brightly throughout the Hempstead on Sunday 13 December festive season, symbolising the brightness starting at 10am. Bring the family (and and joy that special people have brought your pet dog!), have fun, and help us to our lives. Special star dedication cards raise funds for the Hospice this Christmas are available at the Hospice and online at time! Register at: www.stfrancis.org.uk/ www.stfrancis.org.uk/Lightupalife santadash .
Steve Jamieson, Hospice CEO, said, “It is at Christmas when the loss of loved ones is most strongly felt and we know the symbolism of having lights burning brightly on our Remembrance Tree brings comfort at a poignant time.”
Dedicating a light in memory of someone special is completely free but the Hospice is hugely grateful for any donations received to help support its work over the 20 2016 Contact Gillian van der If you’re planning New Year’s Merwe, Voluntary Resolutions, the Hospice can help you Services Coordinator: achieve something amazing for yourself, 01442 869550/ and for us! Why not? …. [email protected] Skydive for us on Sunday 20th March Lose weight for us by joining our Biggest 2016 . Loser Challenge in conjunction with Go on our 10 day Trek to Peru in Sportspace, Hemel Hempstead. We’re September 2016 taking in the Inca Trail looking for 20 individuals who want to and working on a community project. work together to lose weight, eat well Pledge to volunteer for us. Currently, we and raise pounds for Hospice care. are looking for volunteers to join our For further details on all Hospice events, Supportive Care Bereavement team. We visit: www.stfrancis.org.uk or call 01442 are holding a training day primarily to 869555 or follow us on Facebook/ recruit for the telephone bereavement TheHospiceofStFrancis Twitter: support line, which operates out of our hospicstfrancis Spring Centre between 4-9pm on Monday evenings, starting on February We wish you all a peaceful Christmas and 5th 2016 for six consecutive Fridays. Happy New Year.
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A Christmas Poem In the Bleak Midwinter
In the bleak mid-winter Enough for Him, whom cherubim Frosty wind made moan, Worship night and day, Earth stood hard as iron, A breastful of milk Water like a stone; And a mangerful of hay; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Enough for Him, whom angels Snow on snow, Fall down before, In the bleak mid-winter The ox and ass and camel Long ago. Which adore.
Our God, Heaven cannot hold Him Angels and archangels Nor earth sustain; May have gathered there, Heaven and earth shall flee away Cherubim and seraphim When He comes to reign: Thronged the air, In the bleak mid-winter But only His mother A stable-place sufficed In her maiden bliss, The Lord God Almighty, Worshipped the Beloved Jesus Christ. With a kiss. What can I give Him, Poor as I am? If I were a shepherd I would bring a lamb, If I were a wise man I would do my part, Yet what I can I give Him, Give my heart.
Christina Rossetti (written 1872, published posthumously in 1904)
Curate leaves St Peter’s
Fr Tom Plant is moving to a new parish where he will be Vicar of St Michael’s Camden Town. His last service at St Peter’s will be on the 3 rd of January, when we hope to pre- sent him with a farewell gift. People within the community as well as the church will have benefitted from Fr Tom’s ministry, and may wish to give an expression of their gratitude in the traditional way. Cheques should be made out to: ‘PCC of Great Berk- hamsted’ and be sent to the Parish Office. Please write “Fr Tom” on the back.
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24 Your Charities
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‘Peach’ Pub Company wins store by looking after them and giving top people award for the everyone great training so they stay and fifth year running grow with us. I'm really proud of what 19th October 2015: we've all worked so hard to create, and being recognised as one of the leading Pub company Peach, which runs The Old people businesses is the highest praise Mill in Berkhamsted has again been we could wish for," he says. recognised as one of the leading people businesses in its industry by winning a top "A contributing factor to our continued national award for the fifth time in as success in the awards is undoubtedly the many years. great training we give our teams, and how dedicated we are to our training pro- Peach was named winner Pubs & Bars grammes," he says. "We develop a lot of Category 2015 at the Best Employers in our own training, for instance with Peach Hospitality Awards 2015 in London on Pathway programmes which help the Monday 12th October, marking five people who work behind our bars or cook consecutive years of taking the trophy in our kitchens develop from when they home. first start out to becoming a partner in our business. We now have six partners Organised by the Caterer.com, the annual who have done just this, using our train- awards single out the businesses in the ing to become stake-holders in the com- UK hospitality industry that do the most pany and win awards of their own. to train, motivate and develop their people. What is special about the awards To find out more about working at Peach is that the winners are selected solely on and benefiting from the great training the views of the people who work there, and career opportunities available, please showing which businesses really go the contact [email protected]. More extra mile to put their people first. information about Peach is on www.peachpubs.com . "We have been named one of the best places to work in our business, for the To read a review of The Old Mill, fifth year running," says Garry Peacher, Berkhamsted please turn over to general manager of The Old Mill. "This is Page 28. a really big thing to win in our industry and winning once is fantastic but to be singled out for praise five years on the trot is a truly amazing achievement," he says "We run wonderful pubs and they're full of brilliant people. We know that people are central to our success and set great
27 The Old Mill A review by the Editor I decided to have the Superfood Salad of Sesame-crusted Halloumi, Pomegranate, Sweet Potato & Spinach, Toasted Seeds & Lemon Dressing (£7.00) for starter and I must say it hit all the right notes and was just enough not to spoil the mains. Talking of the mains, I chose 28 Day Dry- aged 8oz Rump Steak (£19.75), served with Watercress, Chips and a choice of either Blue Cheese Sauce or Chop House As you drive along from Bourne End, The Butter, though I opted for dauphinois Old Mill is the first pub you will encounter potatoes instead of chips. The 28 day dry as you enter into Berkhamsted. It is in a ageing produced a mouth watering steak great location beside the Grand Union that cut with such ease. Canal in Berkhamsted. Its old mill-race
turns the wheel over a weir and through I had to have pudding, it would have been the secret courtyard. The building retains rude not to and chose crème brulée and the character of its Georgian & Victorian was not disappointed. The lovely melt in origins. your mouth crème with the crunchy burnt
sugar topping was the perfect ending to a Inside it has been tastefully decorated wonderful gastronomic experience. with a mix of old and new, keeping a lot
of the original features. There is a warm All menu choices are on the website, and cosy feel, with lots of nooks and there are also daily specials. Also look at crannies, including a snug area. Always the website for what is on at Christmas nice to sit somewhere different each visit and New Year! and get a different perspective of the www.theoldmillberkhamsted.co.uk place. When we arrived at The Old Mill is on London Road, lunchtime, there was a relaxed Berkhamsted HP4 2NB. Tel: 01442 and friendly atmosphere. The staff were 879590. very attentive and Garry Peacher, the
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There is an extensive menu and I will be honest it was so hard to choose – this means I will have to visit often and try the other dishes on the menu. It is the only way!"
28 Your Garden Helen Reeley Adventures in boots December with festivities & fun of one My boots are well & truly wet now & it’s kind or another. I’m organising some looking like it’s time to pack them away willow wreath workshops on 5/6 th for a couple of months especially as December at Frithsden Vineyard & we’ve had cold weather too. Working in 12/13 th December at Lockers Park School. the cold & wet is truly miserable during All materials are locally sourced; the the dark months & I know some willow is grown in Berkhamsted by the gardeners like me take a break in Sunnyside Rural Trust & the flowers, December. But excursions don’t stop & seeds heads & foliage are foraged from this month so for the hedgerows. The enjoyment purposes only workshops are terrific fun I’ll be visiting the gardens at & everyone is very Kew especially to see the welcome except small glass house and the new children. Get in touch if one mile path of twinkling you want to come. lights that make up this The footprint on the magical after dark materials is very low as the experience. It’s open until willow wreath can be used 10pm so there will be again & the foliage is maybe there will be an compostable. I find the opportunity to miss the plastic wreaths for sale in people who want to see the shops quite abhorrent, Santa. even some of the fresh Apparently gardens in wreaths are decorated Toronto disappear under a sheet of with fruits that have been soaked in snow between December & March with unknown chemicals to stop them going temperatures between minus 3C & mouldy. If you’re buying a fresh wreath or minus 6C. Sounds blissful in a way garland this year look at the list of because you really would be forced to ingredients (so to speak) & compost what stay indoors & not do any gardening. you can. However (and thankfully) this doesn’t People have bought greenery into their occur in our neck of the woods & we do homes since time began. It was thought have occasional pleasant winter days to ward off evil spirits associated with the when we can get outside & paint the dark winter nights & also to celebrate the fence/clean the greenhouse/spread forthcoming new spring growth. On that muck/turn the compost & do some bare note I wish you a safe & warm mid- root planting. Between now & next winter. March I have all of these jobs on my list Do drop me a line if you have any queries (and some of these for clients too). [email protected] 07708 There is some fun to be had in 643313 www.reeleylandscapes.co.uk
29 Your Sport Matthew Dawson Chesham United enjoy FA Cup run early tie against Aylesbury in the first This month, local side Chesham United FC qualifying round of the FA Cup. After will travel to either Aldershot Town or drawing 0-0 at home, the Generals went Bradford City for their second round FA away to Aylesbury in the replay where Cup clash. they won 2-1. That was followed by a 2-0 After advancing through the qualifying win away at Paulton Rovers in the second stages of the FA Cup, Chesham quite round of qualifying, before defeating remarkably beat League 2's Bristol Rovers North Leigh at home 2-0 again in the next 1-0 in the first round proper of this round of qualifying. In late October season's FA Cup. Chesham then beat Enfield Town 2-1 at Chesham United, of the Southern home to send themselves into the first Football League which is the 7th pyramid round proper of the FA Cup. of English football, put in a valiant It's a brilliant achievement for one of our performance in the first round as a goal local clubs who sit one division behind from Ryan Blake was enough to seal the Hemel Hempstead Town who reached the win. It was a win which ensured they first round of the FA Cup last season. reached the second round for only the However Hemel were beaten 3-1 by Bury second time in the club's history. who at the time were in League 2. The 1-0 victory came despite Chesham Chesham will be hoping to advance to the missing a first half penalty, as The third round of the FA Cup to equal their Generals beat a football league best ever run in the famous competition. opposition for the first time in their They last reached the third round proper existence. in the 1979/80 season when they were At the time of writing Chesham's knocked out by Cambridge United. potential second round opponents have This season presents quite a turnaround not yet faced each other in their first for Chesham though who were knocked round replay, after Aldershot and out in the first round of FA Cup qualifying Bradford played out a 0-0 draw at the to Dunstable Town in 2014/15. Manager beginning of November. Andy Leese will now be hoping their Cup For Chesham, a game against Aldershot run can inspire them to climb the league would probably be preferable with the table, with the club sitting in the bottom Shots sitting just two divisions above half of the Southern League at the time of them, rather than League 1 Bradford who writing. famously reached the League Cup final in Chesham's second round match will take 2013. However the 'magic of the cup' place on December 6th and you may could well spring another surprise for already know the result of the game by Chesham, who will look to go away and the time you read this article. Whatever cause another upset to higher league the outcome of their second round opposition. encounter with Aldershot or Bradford Back in September, Chesham survived an though, Chesham United have done tremendously well. 30 Berkhamsted School News
Ashlyns School which will enjoy its first airing to the The Deputy Speaker of the House of school community from 8 – 10 December Lords, Baroness MacIntosh of Hudnall, in the Centenary Studio Theatre. recently visited Ashlyns to address Sixth This “ambitious, anarchic, anachronistic Form politics students and respond to and alliterative adaptation of Moliere’s their questions. A Labour peer since 1999, classic comedy” sees Argan, a wealthy Baroness MacIntosh spoke about the hypochondriac hatch a plan to marry his House of Lords’ role of scrutinising Gov- daughter off to an up and coming young ernment and answered student questions doctor in order to provide for his future on a range of topics; including the recent healthcare needs. However, Argan’s rejection of the Government’s plans to scheming wife has one eye on his health reform tax credits, hereditary peers, and and the other on his fortune and his the recent election of Jeremy Corbyn as daughter has plans of her own. Will this Labour Party leader. The students were story end happily ever after? You’ll have engaged and interested in the session to come and see. which will enhance their knowledge of Tickets are now available on the Berk- this key part of their Government and hamsted Bookings website – Politics syllabus. www.berkhamstedbookings.co.uk – for three 7.30pm performances on Tuesday Thomas Coram School 8th, Wednesday 9th and Thurdsay 10th Our Year 4 Speedstackers beat over 40 December plus an additional early eve- other schools to come top in a competi- ning performance (5.30pm) on 8th De- tion held at Ashlyns School. They will now cember. Tickets costs £5 per person and go through to a County final in March. early booking is recommended as tickets Congratulations! for this production will sell quickly Berkhamsted School ************ The School continues its successful tradi- Year 13 student Ollie Floyd, was deserv- tion of taking Sixth Form drama produc- edly named the Hertfordshire Young Per- tions to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival as son of the Year (Senior Category) at Hert- rehearsals and preparations are under- fordshire’s annual YOPEY awards on Tues- way for the next Edinburgh-bound pro- day 10th November. duction, Moliere’s The Hypochondriac ,
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