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Focus on St Mary's Arcade, Chepstow Telephone 01291 606 900 November 2018 Community Chepstow^ Matters Hand delivered FREE to c10,000 homes per quarter across Chepstow & the surrounding villages We Will Remember Them ... see inside for information on some of the many different events taking place locally WYE RECLAIM Reclaimed & Restyled Furniture • Antiques • Salvage Yard • Collectables OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK Unit 2, Beachley Road, Sedbury NP16 7AA Call: 07948 461 249 or find us on Facebook at Wye Reclaim INSIDE: • Local People • Local Businesses • Local Community Groups & Events Dear Readers... Lest We Forget ... As you can see from the front cover, this month is all about Remembrance, it being 100 years since Contact Us : the end of the First World War. There are many events Choose staff being held across the town to commemorate the fallen, 01291 606 900 from services to concerts, to art displays. Take a look [email protected] throughout our pages and we hope to see you at some absence [email protected] of these. November also brings Bonfire Night and we share news of two events taking place on 4th and 5th of www.mattersmagazines.co.uk November, in Chepstow and Devauden. insurance Chepstow Matters Christmas really starts to makes an appearance in Editor: Jaci Crocombe November and we have news of several Christmas c/o Batwell Farm, Shirenewton NP16 6RX Shopping events taking place this month - keep an eye Reg Office: Matters Magazines Ltd, out for these dates and venues as you read through this you can 130 Aztec West, Almondsbury BS32 4UB Co Regn No: 8490434 month’s issue. We also bring you a Focus On on some of our local depend on... Follow us on Twitter independent traders to be found in the St Mary’s Arcade. @ChepstowMatters Pop down and see for yourself what they have to offer, and make a note to join them on their special Christmas late /ChepstowMatters night opening later this month (see page 19-21 for more information). Chepstow Matters is independently published every month and Only broker to Cover for pre- delivered FREE to approximately 10,000 homes across NP16 5, Thank you to our contributors this month and a big Thank compare 4 policies existing illness 6 and 7 on a rotational basis so that every home receives one You to OUR ADVERTISERS who make the publication of from 3 insurers as standard through their door once per quarter. your community magazine possible. 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Registered office: 55 Bishopsgate, London EC2N 3AS. Collection & Return service available. Authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. 01291 618 013 07818 413 451 www.perfectpetservices.com www.theaerialman.co.uk A48 Penhow, rear of Rock & Fountain Inn 4102_TEB_advert_210x148mm_artwork.indd 1 12/09/2018 11:11 2 To advertise Your Business email [email protected] or call 01291 606 900 Let people know you saw them in Chepstow Matters! 3 MUSICAL DIRECTOR: GRAHAM BULL CCS is affiliated to Ty Cerdd & Making Music, and is a Registered Charity (no. 112798) Chepstowwww.chepstowchoralsociety.org.uk Remembers Sunday 4th November, 3.00pm at St Mary’s Priory Church, Chepstow AtIn Novemberthe beginning this year people we will commemorate said not to theworry centenary since of it the would end of all the be Great over by Christmas. Thousands of youngWar, World men War flocked I. At the tobeginning the recruiting people said offices not to worry to joinsince upit would and allthe be comrades marched off to the front- lineover smiling.by Christmas. But Thousands as the trenches of young men and flocked barbed to the wire recruiting reached offices out to forjoin mile after mile; after the mud of up and the comrades marched off to the front-line smiling. But as the trenches and Flandersbarbed wire fields, reached oafterut for the mile shellsafter mile; exploding after the mud around of Flanders their fields,ears, after the thepals realised that this was to be a veryshells differentexploding aroundwar to their any ears, experienced the pals realised previously. that this was to be a very different war to any experienced previously. By the time the fighting ceased at 11 o’clock on 11 November 1918 over 700,000 British soldiers hadBy the perished time the fighting while ceased overall at casualties11 o'clock on totalled11 November some 1918 37 over million. 700,000 The carnage of this war to end all warsBritish hadsoldiers resulted had perished in families while overall throughout casualties the totalled land some losing 37 million. father Thes, sons, relatives, neighbours and carnage of this war to end all wars had resulted in families throughout the land losing Mud and Glory: The Art of World War One friends.fathers, sons, relatives, neighbours and friends. Lecture by Eleanor Bird In this centenary year we will all reflect on the end of that terrible war and in Chepstow a special Sunday 4th November 2.30pm at The Drill Hall, Lower Church Street, Chepstow NP16 5HJ In this centenary year we will all reflect on the end of that terrible war and in In association with the exhibition at Chepstow & Abergavenny Museum and the Centenary Commemorations of the Armistice eventChepstow is toa specialbe staged event tois to commemorate be staged to commemorate this most this important most important occasion. The town has assembled The Chepstowoccasion. The Choral town has Society, assemble thed theBuglers Chepstow of 1Choral Rifles, Society, a solo the Buglersviolinist, of 1 Children of Chepstow School and As soldiers struggled in the trenches and battlefields Lecturer Eleanor Bird MA (Oxon), who runs a series of Rifles, a solo violinist, Children of Chepstow School and a number of local of the First World War, the British Government popular art history classes for Monmouthshire, says: apersonalities number of who local will readpersonalities previously unseen who will letters read from previously the front line, unseen poems ofletters the from the front line, poems oftime the all timeinterspersed all interspersed with relevant with musical relevant pieces bymusical The Choral pieces Society. by The Standards Choral Society. Standards will be decided that a pictorial record must be kept of “Because the War happened just as art was exploding presented.will be presented. Medals Medals may may be be worn.worn. This This will will be bothbe both a reflective a reflective and uplifting and uplifting occasion for everyone this ‘War to End All Wars’ – both as a warning to into the new style of Modernism, the paintings present,occasion for many everyone of whom present, will many wish of whomto remember will wish to those remember who those fell whoor were fell injured in that war. the future, and as a means of keeping those who not only present a record of the conflict, but also or were injured in that war. remained at home in touch. The artist Paul Nash demonstrate how painting was changing in response ThisThis veryvery special special Commemoration Commemoration will be staged will be at staged3pm on Sundayat 3pm 4th on November Sunday 4th November 2018 in St Mary’s believed he could be “a messenger who will bring to ideas about abstraction, colour and emotional Church,2018 in St Chepstow. Mary's Church, Entrance Chepstow is .free, although back word from the men who are fighting.” It is an expression.” there will be a retiring collection for the Armed art which still speaks to us today and should be a Tickets priced £10 full and £7.50 concessions are ForcesEntrance charity,will be free SSAFA., although We there hope will be that a retiring you collectionwill for voluntary donations to the Armed Forces charity, SSAFA. Do make sure that the elderly are messenger for our own future.
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