The Mild and Exceptionally Dry Spring Has Been Good for Lambing - and for Bonsall’S Sheep Farmers
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Issue 160 June 2017 The mild and exceptionally dry spring has been good for lambing - and for Bonsall’s sheep farmers. This photo of twins relaxing in the sun with their mother, was taken by Olive Bond In folklore T’Owd Man is a spirit that inhabits mines and caves. T’Owd Man of Bonsall is a carved figure of a miner that was taken to Wirksworth when St James church was being refurbished in the 1860s. It was said that strange noises coming from the old Ball Eye mine at the end of Church St. were of T’Owd Man muttering CHURCH DIARY CHURCH NEWS It seems we say it all the time: “Where even though we choose to ignore June does time fly to?” It’s June, nearly Him and live our lives as we please, the ‘middle’ of the year and it’s when rather than according to His loving and Bonsall comes into its own, with Open gracious instructions, Over Easter we St James’ Gardens, then in July the Carnival and have learned that there is a costly price Well Dressings. Lots of hard work, lots that had to be paid for doing wrong, 4 9.30 am Sanctuary to look forward to and lots to enjoy, for committing sin. A price that Jesus, God’s only Son was willing to pay, for 11 9.30 am Eucharist thanks to those faithful workers who keep things going. We may not say whoever believes, so that they will not 18 11.00 am Morning Worship it but you are appreciated for all you perish but have eternal life. God in His do! There are beginnings and mid- mercy and grace, demonstrated His 25 9.30 am Eucharist dles and endings to all aspects of life love for us in the death and resurrec- and I was reminded of this recently. tion of Jesus. It seems that spring as The first verse in the Bible - Genesis it unfolds, demonstrates Easter - from Village Life Church Chapter 1 reads “In the beginning God death to life, resurrection, as we watch created .. .” and the last verse in the creation come to life once more. As Bible - Revelation 22 v 21 is a prayer, we plant seeds, bulbs, tubers, plants, Sunday 10:30 am Morning Worship “The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ see them grow, blossom and fruit, then taste and see how good they are; yes 10:30 am UNO Sunday be with you all. Amen” The beginning even as we enjoy Jersey new potatoes, and the end of God’s inspired Word, School English asparagus, strawberries and the Bible, with an abundance in the Monday 6:00 pm Prayer Meeting tomatoes! If only we could place the middle that will enable us to live life in Tuesday 7:00 pm Craft Club same level of trust in our Father God all its fullness! God is always creating; Wednesday 7:00 pm House group and His Son, our Lord and Saviour Sunday Funday Family Service is making things and people ‘new’ and Jesus Christ, what an impact it would His grace, His undeserved favour, is on Sunday 4 June from 10:30 am have on our lives, our families, where always available, “just when we need we live, our nation and the world. I pray to 11:30 am, followed by lunch. it”, says the apostle Paul. Like David Coffee Morning will be on Tuesday that God will inspire us with the beauty in Psalm 139 it is comforting to know of His creation, the food we enjoy and 27 June from 10:00 am to 12:00 that God was there right from the start pm. A warm welcome to everybody. lead us to find out more about Him, the of our lives, in fact before we were Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and born and as Jesus emphasises: “He the End. Enjoy the Open Gardens! will never leave us or forsake us”. By Judy Land Bonsall Wesleyan His grace He is there right to the very Reform Chapel end of our lives and on into eternity, (The Dale) Catholic Church Wirksworth Thanks to all who supported the Services recent United Services and also Team Ministry our Anniversary Service; it’s good Our Lady and St. Teresa to share together and have a good sing too! of Lisieux Serving: Sunday Services during June are at Gorsey Bank, Wirksworth All Saints’ Alderwasley 6.15 pm Mass Sundays 9 am, Holy Days 7 pm. St James’ Bonsall Friday 16 June 2.00 - 4.00 pm Service of Holy Communion every All Saints’ Bradbourne Cuppa & Cake Wednesday morning at 10 am. All Saints’ Elton All are welcome to join with us. Contact Fr. Joseph Keogh St James’ Brassington (01773 743336) St Margaret’s Carsington Holy Trinity Kirk Ireton Our Lady and St James’ Idridgehay St. Joseph Church Holy Trinity Middleton Bank Rd, Matlock St Mary’s Wirksworth Mass times Saturdays 6 pm, Contact: Sundays 8.30 am & 10.30 am. Holy Days 9.30 am & 7 pm. The Team Office, Parish Rooms, Daily Mass Mondays and Fridays 7 pm. St Mary’s Gate, Wirksworth, DE4 4DQ Tuesdays – Thursdays 9.30 am. Tel/Fax 01629 824707 Sacrament of Reconciliation – email: teamoffice@wirksworthteam- Fridays 6.30–7 pm, Saturdays 10.30– ministry.co.uk. 11 am, Adoration Thursdays www.wirksworthteamministry.co.uk and Fridays 7 am – 11 pm Contact Fr. Robbie O’Callaghan (582804) There is a fortnightly newsletter listing ongoing events. On Sundays breakfast is available in the church hall after the 8.30 Mass and tea/coffee and biscuits after the 10.30 Mass. All are welcome. 2 | www.bonsallvillage.org Obituary Ron Webster (1923 - 2017) Ron Webster, of Slaley Farm, died at a key figure in negotiations home on April 7, aged 93. He was well with union leaders at known to many in the village, sitting Dagenham and indeed at all in the bay window with a wave for all Ford’s body and assembly passers-by (and a smackeroo for all plants across Europe. dogs) and always to be found playing In 1968, Ron and Jean cards in the King’s Head on Tuesday bought Slaley Farm with and Thursday evenings. Until a few an eye to returning home weeks before his death, Ron had to Derbyshire in years to enjoyed good health and had lived come. Thus began one of an independent and active life, even Ron’s many projects as he driving the last of his many beloved developed, extended and Ford cars up until just a few months modernised the property, a before. Until the age of 90 he delivered much-loved holiday home Mutterings to the households in Slaley for the family. In the early 80s, Ron and Jean finally Ron was born on June 7 1923, the retired there, enjoying nine youngest of Annie and Abraham wonderful years together Webster’s four children with three in Bonsall with their West older sisters Vera, Dorothy and Nancy. Highland Terriers. Both Born on Cromford Hill and raised immersed themselves in Bonsall, Ron never lost his love in village life, with Ron of the Peak District and his home becoming Chairman of the county of Derbyshire. His father was Village Hall Committee the village grocer and his maternal and Jean a leading light in grandfather an engine driver on the the well-dressings. Ron’s Cromford and High Peak railway. love of Westies turned his Ron passed his 11+ and studied at the home into a shrine for his Ernest Bailey Grammar School until favourite dog breed, with leaving at sixteen to take a job with ornaments and pictures British Celanese as a lab chemist. decorating every room. There he once caused an evacuation Lifelong friends Audrey, her of the entire building after creating a husband Philip and their terrible stench by accidentally adding daughter Susan, always the wrong chemicals to a solution. He an integral part of the family’s life, the copy of AR Radcliffe-Brown’s was with the company for only a short became even closer following their ‘Structure and Function in Primitive while before the War, when he and his return to the North. When Philip died Society’ which he had borrowed from life-long friend Peter Turner joined the suddenly from a heart attack and Ron Liverpool University’s Social Science army and were sent to North Africa. lost Jean to cancer it seemed only Library in 1953 and neglected to take Fate decreed that Ron was invalided right and natural, following the support back. Library staff, unaccustomed to out of the army. He spent months in they had given each other and their calculating fines for overdue books a Sheffield hospital recuperating - shared interests in walking and bird- run up over more than six decades, and developing his love of all things watching, that love would blossom. eventually determined a figure of literate. While there an officer told With the enthusiastic blessings of all, £4,510 but agreed to waive it if he him, “If you play your cards right, they got together and married in 1996. promised to return all books on time Webster, you could go to university.” As a foursome Ron, Jean, Audrey and in the future! Photographs were taken and the item was posted on Ron played his cards perfectly and Philip had walked many coastal paths together and now, partly in tribute to the library’s Facebook page. From became the first Webster to go there, the story went around the world, to university, of which he and his their lost partners, Ron and Audrey set themselves the target of walking carried by every UK news source, family were rightly proud.