Scrumpers Broach Cider Barrel Holiday Club s usual a great “CUTHBERT’S PLUS”! A event - the rain Monday 6 – Friday 10 August 2012 kept off, the cider and Every afternoon, 2.00 - 5.00pm The Parish Post 28 Number 2012 July the food were good. We at St Cuthbert’s, are still looking for for Beambridge Clunton Coston Cwm Kempton Little Brampton Obley Purslow The Llan & Twitchen people who would like a For children & young people of school age couple of fruit trees £5 Forms available in local churches from each. Phone Anne the second week in July or can be And now for a Barbecue Summer? Shepherdson 660309. requested by phoning the number below Harry samples the cider Patronal Day Festival Clunton Village Hall If you are beyond school age and would Clunbury 100 Club Welcomes like to offer help, or if you have any ou are cordially Chairman’s Barbecue queries, please contact invited to New Members Y ubscriptions (£12/year) for the Club, Sandra Schofield 660158 celebrate the Patronal Sunday 29 July Day Festival of St S which supports Clunbury Church, EVERYONE IS INVITED TO THE starts 4.00pm are due now for 2012/13. Open to all – FINALE ON THE FRIDAY Swithin’s Church at 5.30pm to hear and see what’s been Clunbury, on St Contact Alan Grace anyone wishing to join contact Maddy 660652 Matveieff, 660458 or Mary Jones, happening and to share refreshments Swithin’s Day, 15 July. 660316 June Draw Results Carnival 1. No 97 Julia Brereton £20 Celebrations start at 1pm with a 2. No 72 Tony Pugh £15 Look out in the town for posters giving Clunbury Café 3. No 37 Pat Turley £10 details of all events taking place during Barbecue Hog Roast 4. No 26 Joan Halliday £5 the Clun Carnival from 22 July up to 5 complete with salads and vegetarian Opening Thursday 5 July 5. No 79 June Gissing £3 August. options, and a scrumptious pudding Carers’ Support Services Carnival Concert table 10.00am to 12.00 at the Old Vicarage, Clunbury rop In Surgeries at Clun (Hazlehurst Sunday 22 July at 7.30pm followed at 4pm by then every other Thursday Community Room), Thursday 5 July St George’s Church D Songs of Praise at the Church 2 - 4pm, and Bishop’s Castle (The An enjoyable evening with the Tea or coffee Tickets for the barbecue: Pharmacy), Thursday 12 July 2 - 4pm. Male Voice Choir and Adults: £10 - Children under 14: £4 (with refills) For further information or to book an Bettws Ladies, with guest soloist Ruth Available from: appointment please contact Jenny or Gittins. Wine will be available at an and a slice of cake Maddy Matveieff 660458 Dice on 01694 722024. extra charge. Tickets £5, from Richard Mary Jones 660316 all for £1 Carers’ Support Services is Bright on 640541 Christina Whitehead 660424 available to all Carers in Shropshire. It is Cream Teas Come along to the Village Hall All proceeds to Clunbury Church a service provided by the Community Sunday 29 July and chat with your friends & between 3 and 5pm Council of Shropshire and Mayfair Any offers of help or puddings would be neighbours Community Centre, . at the home of Sue Dowell in Church gratefully received. This will be the first Street. Bring and Buy and a draw, with service taken at Clunbury Church by our There will also be a plant and CONTACTS tickets at £3.50. new vicar, the Revd Paul Wignell. Do join produce bring-and-buy. Please Email: [email protected] Carnival Procession and Show us to welcome him and his wife and Website: www.theparishpost.org Saturday 4 August celebrate St Swithin’s Day by singing the support this if you can Phone: Sue Hill 660355 hymns that mean most to you. Do please In aid of Village Hall funds or Lin Brown 660478 let Christina Whitehead, Mary Jones or For more details contact David or Sue Hundred House Special Maddy Matveieff know what those hymns or Gisèle Wall 660561 on 660355 The editorial team does not accept responsibility for any Steak and Fish Themed Menu Night are. opinions expressed by contributors and reserves the right to edit contributions if deemed appropriate. Friday 6 July Please send your contributions by the 20th of each month Twenty Four and Counting Jubilee Beacon Party As the rain was pouring Draw in aid of Air Ambulance hat an amazing way to ome 160 of us watched outside, we stayed in hanks to all those who bought tickets W commemorate the Queen's S the Beacons light up as church for the celebratory T and donated prizes. Due to the Diamond Jubilee when Clunton and far as the eye could see: photos, taken by Rose precise timing of the lighting of the Jubilee friends celebrated in "royal" style at an amazing and moving sight, as we Evans, which can be viewed on Beacon we did not have time to finish the Cwm Bydd Farm high up in the hills. There argued about whether that was The theparishpost.org website. Thank you to draw. Hopefully you will not have thrown was a banquet of food with a hog roast Wrekin or not, and those who really knew everyone who blew up endless balloons, your tickets away as the winners are: and sumptuous "puds" The highlight of their Shropshire Hills put the rest of us to and put up bunting and flags, and Serial number AHIV LG4Q: 351-355; 381- the night came when the beacon was lit shame! Best comments: ‘Golly, all these arranged the beautiful flowers to match! 385. Serial number RG91 HX4K: 696- whilst the full moon gave us its own years I have spent telling children about Thank you too to the bellringers who 700; 711-715; 791-795; 851-855.LUCKY TICKET DRAW: number 45. Pat Harding spectacular sight. Gradually with the help the Armada and Beacons – and I never rang a flawless 'Quarter Peal' for us. We has the prizes, so if you have won, please of a fantastic panoramic view, we watched thought I would see them myself’ (Sylvia are most grateful to Pat for playing for Grace, “aged 21”), and ‘I think this is the us, and to our readers, one of whom only contact her to arrange collection. Tel: as one by one beacons were lit along the 660169 or 07909 882014. bestest day of my whole life so far!’ (Lily just made it in the nick of time! But it all valley and far away over the Long Mynd Tracy Price had accumulated an Jones aged 7), winner of the girls’ added to the feeling of celebration and and Clee Hill and beyond, counting at astonishing number of prizes, any that are Jubilee Themed Hat Competition. enjoyment together. least 24 at one time. Christina Whitehead not claimed will be put up for raffle again Congratulations and many thanks to all A highlight of the Beacon Party was the at the Chairman’s Barbecue on July 29 at who worked so hard before and on the sumptuous and groaning pudding table Jubilee Quiz Clunton Village Hall. The raffle raised night to make the occasion a great (and thank you so very much to all who For those who missed it at the time the £163 for the Air Ambulance, success and special thanks to Carol and so generously and creatively contributed questions are available on the website and as the Jonathon for allowing us to invade their to it) which took so long to absorb, so to www.theparishpost.org but for all those Village Hall made a profit on the evening, peace at Cwm Bydd Farm and giving us a speak, that we got a bit rushed by who completed the Jubilee Twenty One we will send £200 off to support this night to remain always in our memories Beacon Lighting Time. And once it was lit Questions and are still wondering what essential service. . – and other lights started sparkling on our dog HM the Queen breeds at Last but not Least Sheila Hindle hills and in our valleys - there was no Sandringham, here are the answersS he unsung heroes of Clunton Village Ringing in the Jubilee dragging anyone back to the business of 1) Elizabeth II, 2) Union Jack, 3) Bunting, THall Committee must not be forgotten. lun Valley ringers joined together on quizzes and raffles (see next page). 4) India, 5) Jamaica, 6) Edward, They worked long and tirelessly to produce Saturday 2 June, to ring in celebration Thanks to all of you who made it such a 7) Labrador, 8) Jubilee, 9) Sir Winston a superb and truly memorable evening for C memorable evening – pudding-makers, of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Churchill, 10) 31, 11) 1919, with Peace the community. They are (in no particular tent erectors, table decorators and all the Second's Diamond Jubilee. Over 20 Teas, to celebrate the signing of the order): Jack and Jenny Huffer, Tracy Price, other volunteers who made it work, were ringers, including six learners rang at Peace Treaty, 12) 25, 13) Windsor Castle, Alan Grace, Ian Davies, Pat Harding and all wonderfully generous with their time Clungunford, Clunbury and Clun. 14) Lillibet, 15) Buckingham Palace, Malcolm Smith. Without them the whole and energy. And finally, thank you to Her thing would not have happened and it In addition, Jude Crighton, John Croxton, 16) 1992, 17) 8, 18) Westminster Abbey, Majesty the Queen, whose exemplary 19) 11, 20) Underwear – bras and certainly would not have been as wonderful Barbara Freeman, Helen and Alex Sharpe, as it truly was. Thank you from us all. reign has given us all such a marvellous corsets, 21) Forth Road Bridge and Roger Webb rang a quarter peal at reason to celebrate. Clunbury on Sunday 3 June, after the Clunton Village Hall Committee Jubilee Service to mark the event. PS We have a large white oval plate and a wooden slotted spatula unaccounted for – if they are yours please ring Pat Harding 660169. Generations Jubilee Thanksgiving Service join together lunbury enjoyed a special Diamond at the Jubilee C Jubilee Service of Thanksgiving Thanksgiving taken by the Rev Ann Ogram, with a Service large congregation including lots of children, who all sang their hearts out, and then enjoyed delicious cakes, coffee and wine, including a wonderful Jubilee Some of the Clun Valley ringers who took part in Union Jack cake made by Annie Sutton. Saturday's ringing