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Gloucester Cathedral News The Editorial Team consists of: Richard Cann, Sandie Conway, Pat Foster, Barrie Glover, Mission Statement: Stephen Lake, Christopher and Maureen Smith. ‘We aim to produce a Christian magazine which is widely accessible and which informs, involves and inspires its readers.’ Editor: Maureen Smith

Cathedral Chapter The next Editorial meeting is on Wednesday 11th November 2015.

Dean: The Very Reverend Stephen Lake "We are happy to receive articles, handwritten or typed. We regret Canons: Lay Canons: that, due to the limited space available, and to enable us to Nikki Arthy Dr Andrew Braddock continue to produce a lively, varied and informative magazine, we John Coates Paul Mason can normally only accept articles of 400 words or less. Articles over Jackie Searle Dame Janet Trotter 400 words will only be accepted at the Editor’s discretion. Celia Thomson The Editor reserves the right to alter articles as necessary, without

Chief Operations Officer: Emily Shepherd losing the general sense.

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The Cathedral Office, 12 College Green, Gloucester GL1 2LX or you can leave them at the Cathedral Office at the address given Telephone: 01452 528095 at the front of this booklet. Email: [email protected] You may also email Maureen Smith direct: The Clergy may be contacted through the Cathedral Office at the [email protected] above address and telephone number. Disclaimer: We try very hard to make sure details are correct before Gloucester Cathedral News Subscriptions going to print, but things can change! Please check with the A year’s postal subscription for 10 copies of Gloucester Cathedral Cathedral Office and the notice board. Please note that articles do News may be obtained by cash or cheque for £12 made payable to not represent the opinions of the Chapter, the Church of or ‘The Chapter of Gloucester Cathedral’ and sent to the Cathedral Of- the editor - only the writer! fice at the above address. The Editor for December/January is Maureen Smith. www.gloucestercathedral.org.uk The deadline is the 5th November

Cover picture: ‘A Miscellany of Saints’ Taken from the Christopher Whall windows in the Lady Chapel, Gloucester Cathedral.

Photographs and cover design by Richard Cann.

2 31 December looking ahead…... CONTENTS

Wed 3 * Spirit of Christmas - Concert in aid of Muscular Page Dystrophy. Remember, remember… John Paul Hoskins 4 Sat 5 11.00am Coffee Concert. 2.00pm Caring Chorus Informal Concert. All Saints and All Souls Richard Cann 6 7.00pm Gloucester Choral Society Concert - Handel’s

Messiah. The Origin of All Souls Day Maureen Smith 7 Wed 9 5.30pm Evensong - BBC Live Broadcast. Iconography (attributes) of saints etc. Richard Cann 9 Thu 10 * Concert in Aid of ‘Meningitis Now’.

Sat12 11.00am Carols on the Hour sung by Choirs of the Cathedral Lock Up Your Brooms or Loose Them! Maureen Smith 10 4.00pm & Christmas Market in the Cloisters. Listening Post Concert. ‘The Father of English Hymnody’ Maureen Smith 11

Thu 17 7.30pm Ecclesiastical Carol Concert. Around the Community 12 Fri 18 * Police Carol Concert.

Sat 19 11.00am-4.00pm Carols on the Hour sung by Adult Choirs. Our Cathedral in Local Art John Melhuish 14

Sun 20 4.15pm Britten’s ‘Ceremony of Carols’ Sung by the Three Choirs Festival: Cathedral Choristers Gloucester 2016 Peter Cottingham 16 6.00pm Messiaen’s ‘La Nativité du Seigneur’ - performed by Jonathan Hope Comemorating the Centenary of WWI series: Wed 23 3.00pm Family Crib Service The Glos Rgt at Gallipoli Barrie Glover 18 6.00pm Christmas Carol Service A Soldier’s Cemetery John William Streets 20

Thu 24 CHRISTMAS EVE 3.00pm Family Crib Service Pin Making in Gloucester George Marchant 22 6.00pm Christmas Carol Service 11.30pm Midnight Mass “Cider with Rosie?” No, I am a Gin and Tonic Man. Norman Habgood 24 Fri 25 CHRISTMAS DAY

10.15am Sung Eucharist Jottings from the West End Hump ’n Harry 25 Sat 26 ST STEPHEN’S DAY (Boxing Day) 3.00pm Carols for All - Gloucester Choral Society. Diary of special services and events 29

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* Times of these events will be published in the December/January

edition. Please consider a voluntary donation of £1 to help cover the cost of this magazine 30 3 Remember, November special services and events:

remember ... Fri 30 Oct – Mon 16 Nov PANCREATIC CANCER AWARENESS MONTH. The Cathedral tower will be lit purple to help raise awareness

ovember is a month for Fri 6 5.30pm REQUIEM EUCHARIST: – Duruflé. Service to N remembering. It is the remember those who have died in the last year time of year about which Paul Verlaine wrote: Les sanglots Sat 7 9.30am FEIG BRUNCH AND BOUNCE. Free Entry - All are Welcome. longs des violons de l’automne 10.00am PUDSEY TEDDY BEAR PARACHUTING . The Golden blessent mon coeur d’une Valley Kite Fliers. Bring along your teddy bears to langueur monotone. Tout suffocant et blême, quand sonne l’heure, parachute along a zip wire high in the Cathedral je me souviens des jours anciens et je pleure … (‘With long sobs the Nave and raise lots of money for Children in Need violin-throbs of autumn wound my heart with languorous and monotonous sound. Choking and pale, when I mind the tale the Sun 8 3.00pm ROYAL BRITISH LEGION SERVICE OF REMEMBRANCE. gathers to recall those who made hours keep, my memory strays down other days and I weep …’) the ultimate sacrifice.

No longer simply Keats’ ‘season of mists and mellow fruitfulness’, Sat 14 11.00am COFFEE CONCERT by Students from Birmingham the darkening days of November often find us in more melancholic Conservatoire. Tickets £6 available on the door mood, wistfully recalling things past and apprehensive about what (to include refreshments). All proceeds support lies ahead. the Outreach work of the Cathedral Choir.

This mournful act of individual and collective remembering will be 7.00pm GLOUCESTERSHIRE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONCERT particularly appropriate on Remembrance Sunday and on Armistice With Young Musician 2015 winner Rebecca McNaught. Conductor Glyn Oxley. (See page 25). Day itself three days later, when we will continue to remember and give thanks for all who have given their lives in the service of Sun 15 3.00pm EVENSONG FOR ROAD PEACE. Join with us to freedom and of peace. remember victims of road accidents 5.00pm SWITCH ON OF THE CITY’S CHRISTMAS LIGHTS. Slightly earlier in the month, on 5th November, we ‘remember, Wed 17 6.00pm JUNIOR VOICES PROJECT CONCERT. Voices of the remember … gunpowder, treason and plot’. The details of this Cathedral Choir, Cathedral Junior Choir and conspiracy 400 years ago against James 1 are now largely forgotten, choirs from schools around Gloucester. Admission although Guy Fawkes himself lives on in the popular memory. Free.

Depending on your point of view, the Gunpowder Plot was either a Sat 21 GLOUCESTER CROSS CHRISTMAS MARKET bid for religious freedom or an act of attempted terrorism. Certainly 7.00pm GLOUCESTER CHORAL SOCIETY CONCERT. Orff, it took place at a time of heightened social division, as well as Bernstein & Brahms. (See page 25). anxiety about both the continued existence and the rightful powers of the state. Perhaps in our own time we should be doing more to Thu 26 12.30pm ORGAN RECITAL by David Pope - Assistant Director of Music, York Minster ensure that it ‘never be forgot’. Sun 29 6.00pm ADVENT CAROL SERVICE BY CANDLELIGHT. A For Christians, the beginning of the month of November sees our dramatic and majestic service to mark the annual remembrance of All Saints and All Souls. On these days we beginning of the new Christian Year.

4 29 recall those in whom the grace of God has been at work before us, both those whose lives are an example to the whole Church and those whom we have known more directly and who have encouraged

us more personally in our faith.

November ends with another act of remembering. The feast of Presents an evening Christ the King sums up the annual cycle of recalling Jesus’ incarnation, death, resurrection, ascension and sovereignty. It is a with moment of ‘remembering forwards’, looking ahead to the full coming of the Kingdom of God. THE STUART SINGERS Directed by Helen Sims Remembrance is at the heart of the Christian faith. Our faith takes history and time extremely seriously. The Bible tells the story of the on relationship between God and his people: a story of sin and failure, Saturday 14th November 2015 but also a story of God’s constant love despite our failings. at 7.30pm Throughout history, the people of God stumble and fall. But the God To be held at Gloucester of eternity intervenes decisively in our history, breaking the power St John’s Church, Northgate Street of our inhumanity by defeating the powers of sin and violence and death, through the love that conquers all. Tickets £8.00 Including refreshments Every time we gather for worship – and especially when we fulfil his command to ‘do this in remembrance of me’ – we remember the Contact Mrs Marsh Tel: 01452 728283 historic events of the life, death and triumph of Jesus Christ. All proceeds to Because our faith is so securely rooted in past events, we also (as it Quedgeley Methodist Church Refurbishment were) remember the future together as well.

The salvation that Jesus ushered in 2000 years ago has not yet fully arrived, but so certain is our hope that we dare to act – outrageously! – as though it were already here. We mourn and grieve at the signs of darkness and evil in our world. But we also walk by Saturday 21st November faith and by hope and by love, and we believe that the kingdom of 7.00pm – 8.30pm God will prevail.

GLOUCESTER CHORAL SOCIETY To put it another way: the past is history; the future is a mystery; CONCERT today is a gift – which is why we call it the present. Remembering Orff, Bernstein & Brahms both our past and our future in God’s providence gives us confidence to trust in God today. The letter to the Hebrews puts this promise Conductor: Adrian Partington well: ‘Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever’.

Tickets: £10 - £32.50 John Paul Hoskins. Visit www.gloucesterchoral.com for ticket details. Chaplain to the Bishop of Gloucester

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All Saints and All Souls Josh Saunders, Alex Stefanyszyn and The church’s calendar is such that, if one wanted, a celebration William Peart could be held on almost every day of the year for a feast day or a saint’s day. There are two main periods of preparation – Lent for Invite you to a

Easter and Advent for Christmas. Lent sees its climax for three days Concert of classical choral – Good Friday to Easter Day, and Christmas, in the main, two days, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. singing and instrumental work

on There are, however, a pair of days that one seems to ignore – November 1st and 2nd - All Saints and All Souls. Saturday 21st November 2015 from 11.00 am to 12 noon The origin of All Saints' Day cannot be traced with certainty, and it has been observed on various days in different places. The feast of in

All Saints, on its current date, is traced to the foundation by Pope Gloucester Cathedral's magnificent Gregory III (731–741) of an oratory in St. Peter's for the relics "of the Chapter House. holy apostles and of all saints, martyrs and confessors, of all the just made perfect who are at rest throughout the world" with the date Tickets £5 on door. Refreshments included. moved to 1st November. All net proceeds for volunteer work in Borneo. The formal commemoration of the saints and martyrs (All Saints'  Josh Saunders was former Head chorister of Gloucester Day) existed in the early Christian church since its legalization and, Cathedral and is now progressing his music career as a alongside that, developed a day for commemoration of all the dead tenor. - All Souls' Day. All Souls' Day is a day of prayer for the dead, particularly but not exclusively one's relatives. In Western  Alex Stefanyszyn was a chorister of Gloucester Cathedral nd Christianity the annual celebration is now held on 2 November and and holds a music scholarship with Kings School, specialising st is associated with All Saints' Day, (1 November) and its vigil, in the violin. Halloween or All Hallows Eve (31st October). Richard Cann .  William Peart is the Organ Scholar at Gloucester Cathedral

Saturday 21st & Sunday 22nd November

********************************************** Reading Latin course: THE ROMANS AND THEIR GODS God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners. These colourful figures lighten up the literature of the Romans. A weekend course for students who have some Latin. Soren Kierkegaard. More details: www.lingua.co.uk/latin ,

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6 27 We are very excited about the Agincourt concert and will raise our The origins of All Souls Day banners. We have had our fill of mediaeval jelly, but Saint George and his dragon are still with us and we might use them as part of In the 900s, a French pilgrim returning from the Holy Land was our decoration for the evening. They won’t be much use for shipwrecked on an island with a cave from which belched heat and Christmas. Saint George would make a very odd Father Christmas gas, (possibly volcanic?). Whilst there, he met a Christian hermit and no self-respecting dragon would want to be a reindeer! who lived near this cave. The hermit explained that he sometimes heard demons in the cave complaining about all the souls that are We welcome Emily Shepherd, our new Chief Operating Officer and released from purgatory through the prayers and sacrifices of the look forward to her strategic planning. It should be a very monks in Cluny, France. interesting time for her and we wish her well. When the pilgrim returned to France, he visited the monastery of We are so very blessed to be here and bedsocks will increase our Cluny and recounted the hermit’s story to the Abbot, Odilo, who blessings. It Is a time for remembrance and we think of so many old was deeply moved by it. He subsequently redoubled the monks’ friends with real affection. efforts in assisting the souls in purgatory. Thus, he dedicated the day after All Saints Day (November 1st) to all the souls still in Up the Corbels, Vermin Operatives of the World unite. Christmas is purgatory (November 2nd). The practice eventually spread coming and we can’t wait for the Advent Carol Service; we do love throughout France and then to the universal Church so that candles! November 2nd became All Souls Day.

Salutations all round, Maureen Smith God for Harry, England and Saint George.

Humph ’n Harry.

Charity Christmas Cards

The Cards for Good Causes Christmas card shop will be Half-Term Family Fun open again this year from 30th October to 16th at Gloucester Cathedral December at St Michael’s tower at the Cross, Gloucester. 27th, 28th & 29th October 2015 10.45am – 3.15pm The shop opens daily, except for Sundays, from 10am to 4pm.

We stock cards from 25 national charities and some local charities, BROTHER SIMEON’S SEARCH Help Brother Simeon the Scribe find his quill pen! as well as a range of Christmas items such as advent calendars and wrapping paper. Collect your Free trail from a Welcomer at the entrance New volunteers are always very welcome and needed to cover THE BIG DRAW either a morning or afternoon. Tea or coffee provided!

Collect a clipboard, paper and pencil and get drawing! Sketch a sculpture or your favourite part of the Cathedral Interested in finding out more? Please contact Di Hodges on 01452 615036.

26 7 Iconography (attributes) of Jottings from the West End:

saints etc. Greetings from us Corbels

The Oxford English Dictionary has, as part of Humph ’n Harry its entries for ‘attribute’ – ‘a conventional symbol added to identify the personage represented’ – and this, in church art Novemberitis! Mr. H. gets it every year and this year he has it badly (iconography) is the way in which a particular and is whirling around waving lists in all directions. Humph departed saint can be identified – painting, stained to the allotment at once on the pretext of a bumper season for glass, sculpture etc. included. spiders and an imminent invasion of the shed with total destruction of all his gin flavoured crisps. Visitors to a building such as Gloucester Cathedral are faced with a wealth of such November is a strange month, not quite Winter, but almost, and Adam material – especially stained glass – which with Christmas only weeks away PLANNING is the order of the day. portrays saints as well as biblical and historical Fireworks, crackers, advanced party poppers, Christmas parties and scenes. FOOD are all causing Mr. H. deep thought.

In order to translate what one is looking at, a For Children in Need he is proposing to abseil from the tower and do knowledge of the Bible – both Old and New a quick recce to see what is happening about the solar panels. We Testaments – and the lives of the more well- are promised an Arctic winter and a little extra warmth would be known saints, is a distinct advantage. nice. The bedsocks, which were a feature of his election manifesto, Take the west window of the nave – subject is have arrived - with a strict warning that Father Christmas will water and baptism – Old Testament scenes to boycott any stray sock hung out on Christmas Eve! Otherwise, do with water in the bottom row – Noah, Moses nobody will know whose sock belongs to whom. and Naaman. The next two rows illustrate scenes from the life of Christ and, in the top The procession of Christmas lights will soon be here. Last year, Mr. row, three baptisms from the records H. had a most unpleasant ride on a camel, whose teeth were worse contained in the New Testament – Paul, than his! Humph will write the Christmas cards while Mr. H. goes to Eve Cornelius and the Jailer of Philippi. the Gloucester Cross Christmas Market, provided that he can remember where he put the cards. Mr. H. loves the Market and will There are a multiplicity of images of the Virgin Mary around the hope to make some serious money with his juggling. There is always Cathedral. She is usually dressed in blue and may also have a lily – a nice glass or two of mead and the juggling helps the Breakfast her ‘attributes’. Club.

Adam (pictured above) – usually with a spade – south ambulatory Humph is a nightmare for presents and this year he is giving himself Kempe window. a trip to Waterstone’s. The coffee is good, the chairs are comfortable and there are some wonderful new books on Agincourt. Eve (pictured above) – a distaff and spinning bobbin – Lady Chapel – Mr. H. is providing him with an alarm so that he will remember to Whall, first window on your left as you enter. come home in time for Evensong!

8 25 “Cider with Rosie?” The more obscure saints are very often portrayed very beautifully. Take the window No, I am a Gin and Tonic Man. at the intersection of the north and west walks of the cloisters – it faces you as you It is possible some of you may have seen BBC’s new look from the door at the bottom of the adaptation of Laurie Lee’s famous book ‘Cider with nave. William Morris workshop 1923 – the Rosie’. Virgin Mary with the infant Jesus in the middle, with Saint Agnes on the left holding Again, as in previous articles, the floodgates opened a lamb (her attribute) and Saint Dorothy on and brought back vivid memories of being a TV extra in the first the right. ‘Cider with Rosie’ in 1970.

I had to report to a hall situated near to St Rose’s Convent, , The legend states that, on her way to her for a costume call and was obliged to have a haircut because my execution, Saint Dorothy was asked by a hair was too long for the time period. We were then bussed to Slad scribe named Theophilus to bring him roses for the evening’s filming. The male extras were told by the Director and apples from the ‘Paradise’ that she claimed she was going to. Along the route a to really let ourselves go. The first World War was over and we knew we were not going to the Front. child with a basket of three roses and three apples appeared and Dorothy asked the child to take them to Theophilus. Look Many years later, I corresponded with a lady teacher from Iowa who Saint Dorothy took English Literature. It turned out that her class were discussing closely at the contents of the ’bouquet’ the book, ‘Cider with Rosie’. Saint Dorothy is holding in that window!

On a visit to England she came to stay with my mother and myself. Saint Thomas – the doubter – Great East Window – a spear and the Whilst here, she hired a car and, with me acting as a navigator, we Girdle of the Virgin Mary! If you want to know the answer - ask me ended up outside the Woolpack Inn. to explain!

Richard Cann. On entering, my friend asked the barman where Mr Lee lived. The barman pointed out the house and Mr. Lee was in the garden. My friend then went and spoke to him. He told her he couldn’t speak to ******************************************************* us then as his Agent was due, but asked us to return the following evening. This we did and we found Mr. Lee sitting in his chair. (No- one but Laurie could sit in his chair)!

We were with him a little over an hour. I shall always remember him Wednesday 28th October saying that on a trip back from America, looking out of the aircraft 1.00pm - 4.00pm window as it neared England. To quote him, ‘I saw a black ribbon of FELLOWS AUCTIONEERS VALUATION DAY night approaching’. Free expert valuations of your unwanted Antiques, As the title suggests, ‘No Cider with Rosie’, I’m a gin and tonic man! Jewellery and Watches in the Chapter House Norman Habgood.

24 9 Lock up your Brooms Today, the Folk Museum commemorates the past use of its building by an interesting gallery devoted to pin making. The display includes or Loose Them! the illustrated history of hand pin making and a number of early machines. That was the timely warning to Yorkshire George Marchant. householders at Guy Fawkes’ Night time in the Sources: Folk Museum display; Article by Nigel Cox mid 1800’s! www.gsia.org.uk/reprints/2005/gi200504.pdf

A local man recalls:

‘In the days when there were no County police, if

not wise enough to security lock up your yard

broom, of a certainty it would be stolen; and if ever you did see it again, it would be in the th evening of the 5 November soaked with tar, in the hands of some fellow, rushing like a mad thing along the street with your property Sunday 15th November at 5.00pm blazing in front of him. SWITCH ON OF THE CITY’S I have known scores of brooms which were stolen – aye, and stolen CHRISTMAS LIGHTS them myself – but I do not recollect an instance of the thief being prosecuted. No, if you did not secure your broom, it went, and that ‘THE NUTCRACKER’ was very much the end of it. There was more fun running with a stolen broom than a bought one.’ A service to celebrate the switch on of the Christmas lights in the city and the start of the Maureen Smith. festive season. Source: ‘The English Year’ by Steven Roud. Meet the city procession headed by Father Christmas, the ************************************************ Town Crier, civic leaders, samba bands and local children And talking of Guy Fawkes Night - carrying giant lanterns depicting characters from the did you know that…. famous ballet story The Nutcracker - ever popular at Christmas: mice and a mouse king, gingerbread soldiers, The first recorded fireworks in England were at the wedding of King dolls, snowflakes, a sugarplum fairy, the nutcracker and a Henry VII in 1486? land of sweets and fairies! They gained popularity during the reign of Henry VIII and by Elizabethan times (1558 - 1603) there was a fireworks master. Join us as we sing carols together Elizabeth 1 created this post so that someone would be in charge of and reflect on the true meaning of Christmas. organising firework displays for great occasions. James II even knighted his fireworks master after a particularly excellent display Refreshments in the Cloisters. of fireworks at his coronation.

Source: Woodlands Primary School/Project Britain

10 23 Pin Making in Gloucester ‘The Father of English Hymnody’

Brass pins were first made in Gloucester in the mid-1500s, but the Isaac Watts, popularly referred to as ‘The Father trade was greatly expanded by John Tilsley (or Tilsby) in the 1620s. of English Hymnody, was born in Southampton in By 1632, he employed more than 80 ‘boys and wenches’ and this 1674. His father was a schoolmaster and gave rise to the following verse: committed religious Nonconformist. Young Isaac

The ladies, Heaven bless them all, subsequently had a very strict upbringing. As sure as I’ve a nose on, In former times had only thorns From an early age, Isaac displayed a propensity for rhyme. During And skewers to stick their clothes on. family prayers one morning. Isaac saw a mouse running up a bell- No damsel then was worth a pin, rope in the room and started to giggle. When his incensed father asked him to explain his behaviour, he responded: Whate’er it might have cost her, Till gentle Johnny Tilsby ‘A little mouse for want of stairs Invented pins in Gloucester. ran up a rope to say its prayers.’

Pin making continued to grow and was the city’s main industry by Receiving the cane for his misdemeanour, he cried: 1735. Gloucester probably became the largest pin making centre in Britain by 1763. By 1800, there were nine pin factories in the city, ‘O father, father, pity take employing 1,600 workers. One of these was founded by William And I will no more verses make.’ Coucher in 1743, in the Westgate Street buildings that are now the Folk Museum. Pins and pinheads are still found under floors in the He fortunately didn’t keep that promise! Indeed he subsequently museum. Various partners later joined the firm, including John wrote over 600 hymns amongst them the perennial favourites, Come Tovey, an enormous man weighing 23 stone. let us join our cheerful songs, Jesus shall reign where're the sun and When I survey the wondrous cross. Pins were made by hand in those days, using a labour-intensive process involving some 12-14 stages, each performed by different Isaac of course, also wrote the hymn which is so often sung at workers. The early stages included drawing out brass wire to finer Remembrance-tide, O God our help in ages past. Interestingly, this gauges, which required considerable strength. Pointing the ends was hymn was written after the death of Queen Anne and the accession a hazardous process involving rapidly spinning grindstones that of George I, which marked the end of the persecution of Non- generated an unhealthy dust. Pin heads were cut separately and conformists. The references to the ‘stormy blast’ were directed at fixed on to the body of the pin. This was often done by out-workers the Stuart-supporting Jacobites, at that time very much out of in surrounding cottages or workhouses. favour, ‘their ‘presumptuous boasts and hope blasted’.

Machines were developed in the 1820s and pin making was fully Isaac Watts is remembered in the Anglican Calendar on 25th mechanised by the 1840s. The Folk Museum company (now known as November the date on which he died in 1748. Kirby Beard & Co) successfully adapted to this, probably using Maureen Smith. machines driven by shafts and belts, powered by a steam engine. However, other local firms went out of business and when Kirby Sources: Wikipedia and ‘Glory, Laud and Honour’, by Peter Harvey. Beard moved to Birmingham in 1853, pin making in Gloucester came to an end

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Around the EYE -WITNESS Stories from the Community West Bank & Israel

Saturday 14th November 7.00pm

Palestinian Refreshment followed by talk at 7.30pm Christchurch, Abbeydale In Memorium: It was with immense sadness that we heard Heron Way, Gloucester GL4 5EQ of the recent death of Sarah Vaux. Sarah was a faithful member of the Cathedral community and will be greatly Come and hear first-hand from Theresa Mansbridge who has missed by us all. We extend our deepest sympathy to her recently returned from the West Bank husband, Len and their family and friends. Sarah’s funeral was held at Gloucester Cathedral on Monday 19th  What is daily life under occupation really like? October.  What is the Israeli peace movement doing? ******************************  What can we do to promote a just peace in Israel‑occupied

Palestine? Congratulations to Robin Jenner on the publication of his book, ‘Eighteen lives from the Eighteenth Century’. Tell Others – Bring your friends! The book, which is published by Austin Macauley, will be available from November 30th. Robin also has another claim to fame! He is the longest

serving volunteer in the Cathedral Gift Shop.

YOUR HELP IS URGENTLY NEEDED! The Mouth and Foot Painting Artists Volunteers are urgently needed to help with serving coffee after the 10.15am Eucharist on Sundays mornings. “THE NATIVITY”

This is a great way of making new friends! During November, The Mouth and Foot Painting Artists will be constructing a unique collage with a local Gloucester youth group If you can help, please contact Jean Bouchard at this Christmas. [email protected] The artwork will depict a nativity scene painted by renowned Alternatively, you can speak to Canon Celia, Jean Bouchard or any MFPA artist, Jon Clayton, based on his original painting called of the coffee volunteers in the Chapter House after the 10.15am “The Nativity” Eucharist.

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Cathedral Gift Shop

Advent and Christmas are not far off!

So don’t miss out on the beautiful range of traditional Christmas cards, decorations and gifts available at the

Cathedral Shop now.

From gorgeous glass,

olive wood from the Holy Land,

A Soldier’s Cemetery wonderfully scented candles, fair trade and hand-made,

Behind that long and lonely trenched line to books, cards and Advent calendars To which men come and go, where brave men die, all reflecting the real meaning of Christmas.

There is a yet unmarked and unknown shrine, New this year are fantastic hand-cut pop-up nativity cards . A broken plot, a soldier’s cemetery. And old favourites are back – There lie the flower of youth, the men who scorn’d our bespoke Cathedral advent candle, To live (so died) when languished Liberty: delicious award-winning Christmas mead Across their graves flowerless and unadorned and angels everywhere!

Still scream the shells of each artillery. A small shop offering a very warm welcome – When war shall cease this lonely unknown spot just the place to start your Christmas shopping and help the Cathedral at the same time. Of many a pilgrimage will be the end, And flowers will shine in this now barren plot And fame upon it through the years descend:

But many a heart upon each simple cross Saturday 21st November Will hang the grief, the memory of its loss. GLOUCESTER CROSS CHRISTMAS MARKET

Written by John William Streets We will have a stall at this year’s city centre Victorian Market

(killed and missing in action on 1st July 1916 aged 31) so be sure to come and visit us to find some unique Christmas Gifts and information about events and services at your Cathedral this Christmas.

20 13 Our Cathedral in Local Art The enemy opposition was fierce, and General Sir Ian Hamilton's dispatch tells how the men made a determined rush with fixed

Gloucester Cathedral's best representation is, of course, itself - both bayonets and attained the summit, but the firing was so intense that internally and externally! And, a very beautiful building it is, too, there was no chance of digging themselves in, and they withstood both architecturally, culturally, socially, historically and, above all, attack after attack until every officer was either dead or wounded. By spiritually! After all, it is God's Holy House of Prayer! (One may also midday, small groups of men were being commanded by junior NCOs or add psychologically, too, to this list?). Preceding it was the seventh even privates. The Commanding Officer, Colonel Jordan, had propped century Saxon church, followed by the eleventh century, Norman himself up in a shallow trench and fought on until being shot in the abbey until the sixteenth century's Reformation Cathedral. face, (he was later made a CMG) and at the end of the day there were only 181 of the 1,000 still alive or unwounded in all ranks. This most iconic building in Gloucestershire and Diocese has inspired some street artists to paint it around our city centre. Below are four The battle, then, was essentially a defeat, and of course we now know examples: that the Turkish Army was much stronger than expected, but that by no means was any reflection on the Gloucesters. Later the poet, F.W. Harvey, who was himself a member of the 5th Gloucesters, wrote 1). Junction of Eastgate Street and Nettleton Road. the following:

It is subjective, but, personally, this is Here's a health to every brother in arms - the best one?! It's the largest, covering a And now (in silence) another toast: two-storey building and including the Safe returned from war's alarms; Docks. Oversized, turquoise and light To gallant friends - a mighty host green shrubbery is dotted here and Maimed and merry, hale and bold, there around the cathedral's pink walls, lilac and blue roofs and brown windows. Asleep with foreign earth for bed, This on a black and light yellow To pledge our fellowship of old. background. Till doomsday reveille - the Glorious Dead!

Barrie Glover. 2). Gloucester Train Station (Platform 4). (With acknowledgments: CAP OF HONOUR by David Scott Daniell. Sutton Publishing/1951/55) This is opposite the British Transport Police Office. One rectangular wall panel shows the east end of the Lady Chapel with white, stone walls and black windows surrounded by green shrubbery and with a light and dark blue sky, all done in a ceramic tile effect.

14 19 A panel to the left of this shows the cathedral tower.

Finally, seven panels to the left of this is the cathedral sandwiched between a Union Jack and the Docks, all in shades of brown! (not illustrated).

The Gloucestershire Regiment at Gallipoli 3). Greyfriars, Opposite Indoor

Market Entrance. O God, whose face is against them that do evil, Grant that we, Thy Servants of the Gloucestershire Regiment, This picture shows "Harry Potter" May ever stand back to back against all evils that beset us, figures around brown shades of a and Never turning our backs to Thee, "chunky" cathedral! May steadfastly behold Thy glory in the face of Jesus Christ our Saviour. To the right of this is a "1960's"- Amen. style brown cathedral (not illustrated). *************

The Regimental Collect (i.e. special prayer) of Gloucestershire's own regiment will have felt especially apt at the end of 1915 and into 1916 4). Llanthony Road, Opposite Church when it was ordered to sail for Gallipoli in Turkey. We now know that Street, The Quays. what seemed to be a good intention to take the pressure off the allies at the Western Front in Belgium and France turned out to be a On two square building wall panels shows disaster, not only for Britain but also for the New Zealanders and an eerie white and grey cathedral, with Australians who joined the campaign against the Ottoman Empire. little detail. Most of the 7th battalion that went out in June were not professional soldiers, but civilians who had volunteered at the outbreak of war, and who had had barely ten months' training.

The Battle of Chunuk Bair, in August, was representative. The allies If you know of anywhere else that has Gloucester Cathedral art attacked some heights called Sari Bair in two columns, with the (other than in the Cathedral Gift Shop!), then, please let us know. Gloucesters behind the New Zealanders, and the Royal Welch Fusiliers bringing up the rear. Alongside were the Australians whose armies (in John G. Melhuish, retrospect) came of age in the fighting. Photos by Chris Smith.

18 15 Three Choirs Festival: The glorious music will be enjoyed in a new festival setting. For the first time we will create a Festival Village around the Cathedral to Gloucester 2016 provide our guests with entertainment, excitement and refreshment. Gloucester is proud to be hosting the 2016 Three Choirs Festival 23-30 July during which Meals will be served in a marquee on the south car park with food we shall be showcasing past and present provided by an award-winning chef. Picnic meals will be available Gloucestershire talent in addition to welcoming and lighter snacks will be served from street food booths. our usual roster of UK and International artists. The garth will be home to a champagne and Pimms bar for pre- In 2015, the festival celebrated its concert drinks and a real ale and wine bar will be open on site. tercentenary, a milestone not reached by any other music festival. In 2016 we will interweave Save the dates and do come and enjoy the party! the dual strands of past and future. The start of our fourth century is a natural moment for us to celebrate the new generations of The success of the festival will also depend on our wonderful team composers, musicians, singers and audiences who cherish our music of volunteers. If you feel that you might be able to offer some time meetings and refresh the great British choral tradition. during the festival but have not volunteered before, please contact the Operations Director, Peter Cottingham to find out more. Call So in 2016 you will find a real celebration of youth, including the him on 07816 445378 or email: [email protected]. emerging superstar Finnish conductor Santtu Matias Rouvali, the National Youth String Orchestra and the winner of the 2015 Bromsgrove International Young Musician competition.

th In a year when we commemorate the 800 anniversary of the coronation of the nine-year-old Henry III in Gloucester Cathedral, Saturday 14th November 2015 we’re planning more links than ever before with local children, who at will be visiting the Cathedral ahead of the festival to discover the sacred space and create their own musical reaction. In addition, an 7.00pm outdoor performance area will feature local emerging talent every day. GLOUCESTERSHIRE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONCERT

We’re also working with our chosen charity Mindsong to present With Young Musician 2015 winner Rebecca McNaught cherished memories and consider the way in which past and present collide for those living with dementia. Conductor Glyn Oxley

With the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Three Choirs Chorus and our Event Sponsored by CJ Hole Estate Agents Three Cathedral Choirs we will celebrate new commissions from Joseph Phibbs, Philip Lancaster and Neil Cox alongside some of the Tickets £15, (conc. £7.50) from 0845 6521823 or great works from the choral-orchestral canon, including Elijah, to be www.gloucestercathedral.org.uk sung, on his festival debut, by Sir Willard White.

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