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arly in July, Reading Buses contacted Councillors and then a number of encourage more people to leave their cars behind. A new CEO has been appointed community contacts to advise of planned changes from 3 September 2018 and from October and we all hope that effective joint working can start afresh. Writing the reasons for them. For Caversham, these are as follows: this before the end of July, we do not yet know whether pressure for a delay will be successful or whether the changes listed above will indeed start on 3 September. E By the time this issue appears, timetables will be available at https://www.reading- buses.co.uk/services Red 22 If we are successful in securing a delay, it will need everyone north of the river Revert to its previous routing as far as the town centre only. to come together and support the service. If we are to avoid further increases in Weekday peak time two buses per hour services to/from Reading to depart from congestion and social isolation and halt the problems of air quality, Caversham Caversham Heights at 05:50, 06:20, 06:40, 07:00, 07:25, 08:02 08:35, 09:00 and desperately needs a viable alternative to the private car. To help make that possible, 09:30, and returning from Friar Street at 15:15, 15:45, 16:15, 16:45, 17:15, 17:45, we all need to take the bus. 18:15, 18:45, 19:15 and 19:45. Caversham and District Residents Association (CADRA) www.cadra.org.uk A new partnership with ‘VAMOOZ’ will see the cross-town school time links continue to be offered by a new speculative ‘V81’ route (in addition to the existing Reading Buses 981) should sufficient interest be generated through the VAMOOZ app and book in Caversham bus services: still advance platform. Sunday service will be reduced to two-hourly. many unresolved questions and few answers Matt Rodda MP convened a public meeting in response to Reading Buses latest Pink (soon to be rebranded Berry) 23 & 24 proposals which was held on the evening of Wednesday 1st August at Caversham Baptist Church. The meeting was very well attended and an overflow room was Monday to Saturday frequency of these combined (clockwise and anti-clockwise) used to accommodate the maximum number. services will be reduced to half hourly, still providing up to four buses per hour (every 15 Concerned of Caversham (who have provided a focus for residents over the past minutes at key points) to and from Reading from alternate sides of the road on these year) have been very worried about the latest wave of cuts that have swept across loop services. North Reading. The group have recently been passed a response from Reading Sunday service will be reduced to every hour, so two buses per hour combined (every 30 Buses to a Freedom of Information Request made by a member of the public minutes at key points) from both sides of the road. regarding figures on bus usage for the local routes. Based on that information Concerned of Caversham put the following question to the outgoing Reading Buses CEO, Martijn Gilbert at the public meeting. “On 11 January 2018 Martijn Gilbert stated in a Stakeholder briefing that “Bus use in Pink 25 Caversham has continued to fall year on year” The group has continually refuted that. Reading Buses even coined a phrase Weekday off peak service will be reduced to hourly (but continuing to be maintained ‘Use it or Lose it’. The group are now in receipt of a Freedom of Information with 2 buses per hour during commuter peak times, including with the use of a double request response from Tony Pettit, Finance Director and soon to be interim CEO deck bus on the busiest school time journeys). of Reading Buses. It shows an increase year on year for the 22, 24 and 25 over the Hourly all day on Saturdays and two-hourly on Sundays past few years. Concerned of Caversham was interested to hear Mr Gilbert report that the only successful bus route is the 27/29. Given these buses run at a similar frequency Further cuts to Caversham services are extremely unwelcome and CADRA, EGRA to the 22 and fares are just half the price of the rest of the Caversham routes he and Concerned of Caversham were busy campaigning together in July, with Matt Rodda was asked to explain, given our receipt of the FOI numbers for this route being MP and local Councillors. Reading Buses explain that they operate as a Council owned much lower than any of the other Caversham routes, how he had come to this but standalone commercial business, with the network self-funded through the re- conclusion?” investment of underlying profits, without any overarching subsidies. They report The response that night and subsequent communication by Martijn Gilbert has that Caversham is a challenging operating environment, with far lower bus use than been unsatisfactory. Concerned of Caversham will continue to seek answers to the elsewhere across the Borough. Major road works, including those at Cow Lane, have claims made by Reading Buses and the discrepancy brought by the figures received posed particular problems in maintaining a reliable service. by the company through the Freedom of Information request. We have been making the case that, after the earlier consultation and the problems Fiona Pringle: Concerned of Caversham introducing the new timetables, more time is needed to rebuild confidence and
Talking Point ...... Page 2 The River Thames ...... Page 7 CTC Holiday club ...... Page 3 Remembering the Grosvenor ...... Page 8 Savill Gardens ...... Page 4 Caversham Rock’n’Ale Festival ...... Page 9 INSIDE Living Well ...... Page 5 Clubs ...... Page 10 Summer garden party ...... Page 6 St Anne’s School end of year ...... Page 11 Page 2 CAVERSHAM BRIDGE, SEPTEMBER 2018 Caversham Clergy SUNDAY ANGLICAN TALKING POINT SERVICES St Barnabas by David Jenkins ANGLICAN Revd Derek Chandler, 20 St Barnabas Road. St Peter’s, St Peter’s Hill Tel: 947 8239. 8.00am Holy Communion – BCP (first, second and fourth Sundays) www.saintbarnabas.org.uk Matins – BCP (Third Sunday) St Andrew Caversham’s Unique 9.30am Holy Communion (second, third and fourth Sundays) Revd Nigel Jones, St Andrew’s Vicarage, Service of the Word (First Sunday) 6.30pm Holy Communion with Healing Prayers usually 1st Harrogate Road. Tel: 947 2788 Sunday, Evensong (usually Choral on second Sunday) www.standrewscaversham.org Perspective St John’s, Gosbrook Road St Peter’s, St Margaret’s, St John’s In a previous incarnation I lived in Tilehurst as the Methodist 9.30am Holy Communion (first, third and fourth Sundays) Revd Mike Smith, The Rectory, 20 Church Road, 9.30am All Age Worship (second Sunday)) Caversham RG4 7AD Tel: 9479505 Minister there. Although I was aware of the River Thames, that Fifth Sunday – Parish wide service (check website for details) [email protected] awareness is much greater now that I live in Caversham. To get St Margaret’s, Mapledurham 11.15am Holy Communion (first, second and fourth Revd Marion Pyke Tel: 947 5834 from Reading into Caversham you have to cross the river. There Sundays) Morning Worship (third Sunday) Revd John Dudley Tel: 9470265 are plenty of other parts of Reading and its suburban villages Fifth Sunday – Parish wide service (check website for details) Revd Penny Cuthbert Tel: 07825 331810 which you can drive through without even having to go in sight St Andrew’s, Harrogate Road Revd Judith Ryder Tel: 9473783 8.00am The Eucharist of the river, let alone cross it. 10.00am Parish Eucharist (Sung) CAVERSHAM PARK CHURCH (LEP) First Sunday, Family Eucharist (Anglican, Methodist, Baptist and URC) So possibly awareness of the River Thames has greater 11.30am The Eucharist first Sunday BCP Contact: Dr Alison Johnston resonance for us than it has for many of our other Reading St Barnabas, Grove Road, Emmer Green Tel: 0118 947 5152. www.cpvc.org.uk neighbours. 8.00am Said Communion (BCP) 9.30am Parish Communion METHODIST TEAM MINISTRY I am reading an outstandingly good book at the moment 9.30am COGS for all ages (1st Sunday of Month) Revd Jenny Dowding, 72 Highmoor Road. Tel: 947 2223 called ‘Listening’ by Robin Daniels. It is full of very helpful Riverside Church(Reading) insights about the practice of listening to each other. One of Meeting at Hemdean House School, Hemdean Road, Caversham Revd D Jenkins Tel:0118 327 1592 10.00am Morning Worship & Teaching CAVERSHAM BAPTIST CHURCH the areas he explores is what he calls ‘The Hesitant Journey’. CAVERSHAM PARK ECUMENICAL PARTNERSHIP Revd Colin Baker Journey is a frequently examined and richly evocative metaphor Meeting at Caversham Park School Church office tel 0118 954 5353 for our lives and for our faith. It is a metaphor about discovery, 11.00am Holy Communion (1st, 3rd and 5th Sundays) Email: [email protected] Morning Worship (2nd and 4th Sundays) exploration, movement, direction, development. There is one All Age Worship (at Festival Times) RIVERSIDE CHURCH (Reading) particular sentence in the book where he describes the process CAVERSHAM BAPTIST CHURCH South Street www.riversidechurchreading.co.uk 10.30am Morning Worship each Sunday of listening and uses the phrase ‘different types of terrain’: jungle 6.30pm House of Prayer (praise and prayer) – GRACE CHURCH (confusion), desert (loneliness), mountains (major life events) 2nd Sunday each month (formerly Caversham Hill Chapel) 3.45pm Messy Church – for all the family www.gracechurchcaversham.org.uk Tel 9474529 and river crossing (change). Fourth Sunday of the month ROMAN CATHOLIC Each of those areas are suggestive for further thinking, but it GRACE CHURCH Old Peppard Road Our Lady and St Anne’s is the final one that may have special appeal for the people of 10.30am Worship and Ministry, Children’s Church Mgr Patrick Daly, The Presbytery, Caversham – river crossing (change). THE METHODIST CHURCH IN CAVERSHAM 2 South View Avenue. Tel: 947 1787. Caversham Heights, Highmoor Road We, who may cross the river often, how open are we to 9.00am (first Sunday), 10.30am St Michael’s possibilities of change in our own lives? How prepared are we 6.30pm (second and fourth Sundays) Fr Michael Sharkey, St Michaels, to be the initiators of change? Gosbrook Road Sonning Common Tel: 972 3418 10.30am Cardinal Newman once said, “To live is to change, and to be ROMAN CATHOLIC NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH OF GOD perfect is to change often”. Perhaps the people of Caversham Our Lady and St Anne’s, Southview Avenue Revd H R Gayle Tel: 946 3009 Saturday 5.30pm, have a greater potential to be perfect because we make use of Sunday 10.00am and 6.30pm the river crossing (changes) more than most! Mapledurham House 6.00pm Mass (last Sunday of the A community newspaper produced by Caversham Christian Being prepared to change our ways and being catalysts of month) News Ltd on behalf of the Churches of Caversham change in the world are vital areas to follow wherever we live. St Michael’s, Sonning Common 5.30pm Saturday EDITORS: Dr Alison Johnston, Mrs Janet Offord, Mr Alan 9.00 and 10.30am Monday Bradbury, Mr Stephen A Roberts, Mrs Heather Gale. c/o Church House, 59 Church Street, Caversham. RG4 8AX Rev’d David Jenkins is a member of the Methodist Team SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (Quakers) Tel: 947 1703. Email: [email protected] Ministry and Co-Chair of Churches Together in Caversham. Church Street, Reading 10.30am (House study groups Sept-June Tel: 9475783) ADVERTISEMENT MANAGER: Mr A Wright, Tel: 947 6958. NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH OF GOD Email: [email protected] Church Street, Caversham 9.30am Sunday School CIRCULATION MANAGER: Mrs Carol Moloney. 11.00am Divine Worship Tel: 947 1370. Email: [email protected] 6.00pm Evening Service COMPANY CHAIRMAN: Mr Colin Ferguson. COMPANY SECRETARY: Mr Tony Holland. Caversham Bridge Contributions for the October 2018 issue should be sent to COMPANY TREASURER: Mrs J Belcher. Tel: 947 4772 the Caversham Thameside and Mapledurham Parish Office Email: [email protected] Are you a people person? by Monday 3rd September.The date for the November issue is Monday 1st October. POSTAL SUBSCRIPTION MANAGER: Mrs D. Moore. Caversham Good Neighbours is a group formed to Tel: 947 3713 Email address is: [email protected] offer essential transport to the elderly and disabled Advertising copy for the October 2018 issue should be sent to The Editors wish to make it clear that the views expressed in in our neighbourhood. If you would like Mr A. Wright, Twigmoor, Upper Warren Avenue, Caversham by this newspaper do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Friday 31st August. The date for the November issue Friday 28th board. to give to the community by joining September. Email address is: [email protected] us as a volunteer driver or helping The Editors also would like to bring to readers’ notice that the inclusion of advertisements in this paper does not mean an in our office, then please do get in PARISH OFFICES endorsement of the products or of the services offered. touch with us. PARISH OF CAVERSHAM THAMESIDE AND MAPLEDURHAM Published by Caversham Christian News Ltd, Church Street, www.cavershamgoodneighbours.org.uk St Peter, St Margaret, St John Caversham, Reading RG4 8AX Tel: 0118 947 1703. Church House, 59 Church Street, Caversham RG4 8AX 0118 948 3466 Tuesday and Friday 9.30am to 2pm Typeset and layout by RP Character Graphics, Tel: 947 1703 email: [email protected] Tel: 07949 980 982 Monday to Friday 9.30am –11.30am ST BARNABAS St Barnabas Centre Printed by: Mortons Print, Media Centre, Morton Way, Church House 59 Church Street Caversham RG4 8AX Tuesday and Thursday 8.30am-10.30am Horncastle, Lincolnshire LN9 6JR Tel: 947 6310 Website: www.saintbarnabas.org.uk
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The CTC holiday club drew 175 Caversham For some, this is the favourite part of the day, it’s very kind to us this year. The week ends with a family fun children to Thameside School in the first moving to see everyone from the youngest to the oldest afternoon; younger siblings and parents join the children week of August. Thirty-six adult and 21 in the room waving their hands, signing and singing the to enjoy bouncy castles, face painting, hotdogs, cakes, young leader volunteers from 12 different songs and dancing together. including those made by the children during the week, Caversham churches were involved. For This year’s theme song was ‘It’s great to be on God’s and ice lollies outside in the playground and then come the seventh since it started for the 2012 team’ and by the end of the week it had become as well- into the hall for singing. Olympics, we followed the Scripture Union rehearsed as the very popular ‘Taller than the mountains’ ‘Teambuilders’ programme. and ‘Wow, worship of worth’, which we’ve been singing for seven years now! The story-teller then introduces the Bible story for the day which develops the week’s theme. ‘Teambuilders’ features Joseph and his brothers, Moses, Esther, Jesus choosing his disciples and Paul and Barnabas. Each story covers different elements of teamwork, including learning how to work together, not always in the easiest of situations. Then it’s back to our rooms for snack time and a review of the Bible story, craft activities and puzzles/colouring in a Scripture Union booklet which the children take “Thank you all so much – my kids have been home at the end of the week. After lunch and playtime, “How have I not known about this club before?” said the to loads of holiday clubs, but this is always their the afternoon starts in the hall with stories told by mother of one first-timer. “It is so lovely to hear the children favourite,” said one of the parents. puppets and then two sessions of other activities ranging talking about what they have done and learnt each evening. The club has a structured day: after from tag rugby and dance through spinning and football My daughter has loved talking with adults about their faith registration in year groups and putting on to community craft and cookery. Outside providers are and I can see their depth of understanding of the Christian their coloured caps, a different colour for used to provide the sports activities and Caversham faith growing each day”. each year, everyone gathers in the main Church members use their skills running other sessions. We all go home very tired but encouraged and uplifted hall for singing and the day’s Bible story. There is also a quiet room for those who need space and by the spirit of teamwork between the Caversham relaxation. Churches. This was celebrated with a service at Caversham Wednesday afternoon traditionally is ‘Wet Wednesday’ Baptist Church on the Saturday afternoon to which the and this was as much fun as ever, with the weather being children and their families were invited. READING PLUMBING & HEATING A.B. Walker nominated for regional ALL ASPECTS OF PLUMBING, HEATING AND GAS WORKS UNDERTAKEN. OVER 30 YEARS OF Funeral Planner of the Year Award EXPERIENCE. ALL WORK GUARANTEED. Independent Funeral Director A.B. Walker has been shortlisted We have seen soaring demand for funeral DISCOUNT FOR SENIOR for an award at this year’s Funeral Planner of the Year Awards, run plans. 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Father Patrick opened the presbytery garden for the annual garden party after Mass on Sunday 15th July. Many people joined the party after attending the Sunday morning Mass. The sun was very hot and people gathered in the shade of the trees away from the stalls, apart from the BBQ selling bacon butties in the shady corner. There were hot and cold drinks and cakes for sale. Pimms Cups sold quickly as a welcome cooler on this hot day. Nevertheless, stalls were visited and there was a tombola of miscellaneous items to attract the curious and the charitable. A selection of raffle prizes were laid out, for which Margaret braved the heat to sell tickets. This is Father Caversham Osteopathic Clinic PIANO LESSONS Available from an Patrick’s first summer in the parish so good Richard Weatherall BSc OST memories should see the garden open next experienced teacher , REGISTERED OSTEOPATH ex-concert pianist . year for the same event. 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After prayers a young ‘searcher to be held between the 28th and 30th of knowledge’ Mohammed Hussein, (a full September, which will include 54 stunning time student of Islam), and the Iman of the floral designs depicting journeys of many mosque gave us an outline of the Islamic kinds – real, imaginary, current and faith, the 7 pillars of Islam , and the practice historical. The festival is being staged of worship by Muslims. There were many by the Berks, Bucks and Oxon Area of questions afterwards and at the end as NAFAS (National Association of Flower we thanked them for having us they said Arrangement Societies) how pleased and heartened they felt to Footsteps Foundation is a Dorchester based have received us there. A most instructive charity which offers specialist physiotherapy interesting and friendly meeting. for children and young adults affected by neurological disorders. Around one in 400 children born in the UK has a disability with Is your Garden in a Mess? 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Hemdean House School The River Thames – a study of change Caversham
?dZ[f[dZ[djFh_cWhoIY^eeb CADRA is delighted to welcome Terry Marsh as the speaker for the autumn open \ehXeoiWdZ]_hbi"W][)je'' meeting to be held at 7.45p.m. on Tuesday 6 November in Thameside School. Terry is
=^\]ZhieaVXZYadXVa>cYZeZcYZciEg^bVgnHX]dda^c a Caversham resident and a graduate of Reading University. He has spent most of his I]ZHjcYVnI^bZh'%&,Ide&%%Eg^bVgnEgZeHX]ddahA^hi^c\ working life on the Thames floodplain – successively at the Water Resources Board, the Department of the Environment, the Institute of Hydrology and the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology where he led the National Hydrological Programme for over 20 years. He has authored a very wide range of scientific papers and commissioned reports on water resources, floods and droughts with a particular recent focus on the impacts of climate change. Terry writes that in global terms the Thames is a mere stream, but it has played a central role in the history and culture of the UK. In a scientific context, it is probably the most extensively studied of all the world’s rivers, contributing substantially to advances in river and water management both in the UK and internationally. The Thames is often considered an ancient and unchanging feature of the landscape but it has undergone major transformations throughout its history. Physically, these Open Days changes were most evident through the Ice Ages but in historical times the river Saturday 29 September 2018 has served as a strategic barrier, an important source of food and power generation, Wednesday 7 November 2018 a major transport hub (which largely determined the location of Reading Abbey), a 10.00 – 12.00 noon focus for commercial development, a primary source of water supply and an important >[cZ[Wd>eki[IY^eeb recreational playground. Less beneficially, its use as a conduit for sewage disposal, with =ZbYZVcGdVY!8VkZgh]Vb!GZVY^c\!7Zg`h]^gZG<),H9 IZa/%&&-.)+)),)$%&&-.),'*.%:bV^a/Zcfj^g^Zh@]ZbYZVc]djhZ#Xd#j` attendant health risks which peaked in the nineteenth century, has impacted negatively lll#]ZbYZVc]djhZ#Xd#j` on water quality and, correspondingly, limited the variety of wildlife the river can sustain. Caversham has been directly, or indirectly, impacted by most of these changes. Since the early 1960s, a revised legislative framework has enabled a more integrated management of the river, leading eventually to improved water quality and, latterly, greater ecological diversity. But continuing population growth and the threats posed by global warning have become a major focus of concern with a media perception that flood and drought threat in the Thames basin may increase substantially. In fact, Reading Family Aid: whilst continuing floodplain development can you help? has increased vulnerability to flood events, Fine handmade and second hand Our charity is in desperate need of new river flow patterns in the Thames have committee members interested in really displayed considerable resilience to the jewellery taking responsibility for some of their proj- exceptional increase in temperatures over åså2OLEXåSERVICINGåAGENCY åPLUSåPRESTIGIOUSå ects and also someone to get involved in the last 50 years. Nonetheless, careful makes the more computer technical aspects of management remains essential to maintain åså0ROBATEåVALUATIONS their work. a cherished regional and national asset. Reading Family Aid (RFA) provides sev- CADRA looks forward to welcoming åså%XCELLENTåJEWELLERYåREPAIRåSERVICE eral outings and toys at Christmas to many you to what promises to be a fascinating åså0URCHASERSåOFåOLDåGOLD åPLATINUMåANDåSILVER hundreds of disadvantaged families across and very topical evening. åså!NTIQUEåANDåUNUSUALåPIECESåALWAYSåWANTED the wider Reading area. We are a small å"RIDGEå3TREET å#AVERSHAM å2'å!! charity run entirely by volunteers and have been going since the 1950s and as a regis- Rivermead Indoor 4ELEPHONEååå tered charity since 1993. As we have grown so has the need to be better organised and Bowls Club professional and so we need volunteers Rivermead Indoor Bowls Club, Richfield who are happy to take on the management Avenue, Reading re-opens on 29th responsibilities. It would be a real shame if September 2018 for our new season. New we were unable to continue. Members are welcome (no experience Choose We are currently looking for an Outings necessary) – coaching and help are Organiser, a Toy Project Manager and a Toy available. Caversham Project Technical Administrator. If you have There are two Open Days – Sunday 21st The website for Caversham the time to get involved and have good or- October – 2pm to 5 p.m. and Saturday 27th includes information on: ganisation skills and are comfortable using October – 10am to 1pm y News y Events a computer for email, Word and Excel or Bowls are provided, but please bring y Business listings you are perhaps a retired IT professional along your own flat bottomed shoes to y Jobs then please have a look at our website wear. y Clubs y Schools page https://www.readingfamilyaid.org/ We are a friendly club providing a sport current-vacancies.html and contact Ruth- for all abilities from 14 years upwards. A Brought to you by [email protected] providing warm welcome awaits you so come along some information about your interest and and give it a try. www.ChooseCaversham.co.uk any relevant experience. Contact Joan Strong – 0118 942 5269 Page 8 CAVERSHAM BRIDGE, OCTOBER 2014
BRITISH LEGION Royal British Legion – Caversham Branch
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On this day the branch launched its own ‘Field of Remembrance’ in the Military Section of the Henley Road Cemetery. This is to encourage people to make a donation for a wooden cross in memory of a person who served in WW 1 (or any ENVIRONMENT MOBILE MOWER SERVICING other conflict) and to place it amongst all the others. (The branch would like to thank ‘Choose Caversham’ for informing E. H. HAMLEY & SON its members and to all the outlets who are making these crosses available throughout Caversham). Professional and Domestic machines These two events were filmed live by BBC South. Buildersserviced and/ repaired Decorators at your home or workplace This year’s Poppy Appeal will hold a very special significance. Caversham is always generous - let’s hope that this year Repairs and Roof Work a Speciality will again exceed all expectations. If you want to help in any way please contact the Poppy Appeal Organiser (Pauline) on CollectionEstablished & Delivery over 100 service years 0118 9475345. Remembering the Cavershamalso available based Please ALL MAKES contact: – ALL0118 MODELS 957 3894 07743 929649 Email:Over [email protected] 20 years experience Caversham Royal British Legion Parade and Service of Remembrance, Sunday 9th November Contact: Adrian Davies Grosvenor All participants should assemble at Westfield Park by 10.15am (or earlier if advised by Group Leaders), and the parade 0118 375 9815 / 07598 800298 will march off at 10.25am Its very name conjured up wealth and opulence! The Grosvenor with work colleagues or members of a social club, for a Saturday Footwww.montysmobilemowers.co.uk Health Practitioner The salute will be taken on the library steps on the way to the War Memorial, where the service will take place with two family were related to William the Conqueror. They came to dinner dance. On the stage was a three-piece band, dressed Patricia Spender MCFHP MAFHP minutes silence at 11am. The Salvation Army Band will be in attendance. own and develop Mayfair and Belgravia in west London in the in flared trousers, with frilly shirts. The evenings ended with Member of the British Chiropody & Podiatry Assoc. Dismissal of the parade will occur immediately after the conclusion of service, when personal tributes may be laid on eighteenth century, and were created Dukes of Westminster in something smoochy like ‘The Last Waltz’ or ‘Moon River.’ Painting and Decorating the memorial.. 1874. So perhaps it is not surprising that their name should be In 1984, it looked as though The Grosvenor was to be Foot Health care in your Last year there was a really moving end to the Service when a very large number of the children went up to the memorial, given to the hotel that opened on Kidmore Road in 1935. Though demolished and replaced by houses, but fortunately the houses Fencing, Gardening, own home quite spontaneously, and left their poppies, orders of service or other personal messages. As this is a very important year you couldn’t actually stay the night there, it was always a hotel, never materialised. Corns,General callus, ingrown Property and involuted Maintenance nails, specialised and obviously intended to be a cut above an ordinary drinking- From some years after this, I have another fond memory of nail cutting, fungal nails, athlete’s foot, verruca’s, care to remember it is hoped that even more will make this gesture as they house. the place. I went with other church members to sing Christmas of theLocal diabetic references high risk foot available and general foot think about the sacrifices made by their ancestors. maintenance See all your Bible Friends in H. and G. Simonds, the Reading brewers, knew it would be carols to the drinkers and diners. 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The numbers in the parade have escalated over the off for housing from 1898 onwards, and purchasers were supposed went down well, I believe some money was raised for charity, but I available at years from a few dozen to well over 1000, and whilst Caversham is very to abide by the terms of covenants, whereby the houses were to don’t remember the carol-singing being repeated. Wordplay 18 Prospect Street lucky to have a police escort, many of the parents and the young be expensive, and they were not to build shops, workshops, or Today, as The Caversham Rose, it’s somewhere to enjoy a Caversham RG4 8JG organisations leaders, such as the Guides and Brownies, thought that the or online at control at the end of the parade, because of the slowness of the licensed premises. meal that I can walk to – maybe after a Sunday morning service, or www.scriptureunion.org.uk/shop An article in ‘The Hop Leaf Gazette’, the monthly magazine of maybe to combine with a walk along Hemdean Bottom. But the youngsters marching back to Westfield Road, was a potential danger. H. & G. Simonds, for November 1934, told how, earlier in the year, days of tripping the light fantastic are long gone, I’m afraid! six members of staff, armed with electric torches, were paid to go Happy Wanderer
out in the evenings to canvass support for the hotel among local F r o m residents. “Night after night, our little band braved the elements, T h e Praying as Jesus did and if it was a cold job, the success obtained warmed us quite a lot. B i g Fortunately, we experienced very little wet weather, for which we B i b l e Jesus’ friends wanted to pray just like Jesus did! But they were S were all very thankful. Well, after several appearances at court, t o r y b k never sure what to say to God. So one day they asked, “Jesus, how should we pray?” everything went swimmingly, and now the work has started and TUESDAY SPECIAL ©
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Clive The Handyman Caversham Rock’n’Ale Festival 35 years experience in the building trade On a warm, sunny evening in July, the sounds of parish and for all to enjoy a pleasant, relaxing summer evening. Full painting and decorating the sixties echoed through Caversham as the 6th Both the main sponsors of the event, the Jelf Group Plc and Berkshire Patch plastering / Tiling Caversham Rock’n’Ale Festival got under way on St Mortgage Services attended the event and we are extremely grateful for their Gutter repairs, Fascias, Repointing Anne’s School playing field. In anticipation of fine generosity as without it the event would simply not take place. Woodworking / Small plumbing jobs weather, tables and chairs had been placed outside We would also like to thank St Anne’s Catholic School whose goodwill and General Household Repairs the big white marquee on the field and within generosity of spirit in allowing us to use their playing field provided the space an hour of the opening time all available places for over 500 people to enjoy a fabulous evening. All work guaranteed and fully insured had been filled. As the evening wore on, more We’ll be back next year! Reportage by Jane Shaw and Mike Ryan Please call: 01491 411321/07766 540117 and more people arrived and spread out picnic blankets and family groups gathered to enjoy the atmosphere of a wonderful community event. 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Our date for ‘Addelaide’ and ‘Emily’ to spend a Loose Covers, Curtains, week with us begins on 28th August, they arrive from Drapes, Re-upholstery Purley WI and we pass them on to Rosehill WI. Future social events were announced. Our coffee morning was very pleasant at Toad Hall Garden John Kitcher & Son Centre: what a delightful way to spend a couple of 55 Gatehampton Road, hours! Lunch at the Greyhound takes place after this Goring, Reading RG8 0EN report is filed! In September a visit to the Silk Mill and the Bombay Sapphire Gin Distillery with 11 members Shiplake Church of England Tel: 01491 872103 signed up is planned and our trip to the theatre in Primary School April 2019 to see Calendar Girls has 12 signatures! Headteacher : Mrs Katherine Page-Howie MA.Ed, BA (Hons), PGCE, NPQH During August a small group will visit Lady Sew ‘Explicit Chris�an values, understood and used by everyone, create a successful learning environment in which children are nurtured in their academic and personal development’ SIAMS December 2016 and Sew in Henley. The Book Club, Knitting Group and Art Group continue. Are you looking for a Recep�on Class place for September 2018? Caversham Court Kiosk has been given a 5 star Shiplake Primary School was ranked in the top 2% of The Telegraph’s top performing rating which Chazey supports during the summer: na�onal primary schools and was in the top 1% of schools for performance in mathema�cs in 2017 our date was the first week in August. S Please call us to make an appointment to come and visit our school A request for more emergency wash bags has been received from the Royal Berks Hospital to be Looking for a place in another year group? Please call for up-to-date availability Looking for a place in another year group? Please contact us for collected at our next meeting. up-to-date availability Our last meeting at the Caversham Methodist ‘The school’s ethos and values of ‘mutual respect, good behaviour and high academic standards within a Chris�an and moral culture’ are borne out in all aspects of your work. Consequently, Church Hall is on the first Wednesday in August pupils are highly mo�vated, keen to learn and achieve well’ Ofsted December 2016 All Types of Roofing and thereafter on the first Friday in the month at Shiplake, Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire, RG9 4DN Tel: 0118 963 9456 St Andrews Church Hall in Albert Road, Caversham For more informa�on email: offi[email protected] Heights at 2.30pm. For more information email or telephone 0118 940 2024 [email protected]. www.shiplakeprimary.org.uk CAVERSHAM BRIDGE, SEPTEMBER 2018 Page 11 MAPLEDURHAM PARISH HALL End of School Year at TRENCH GREEN (RG4 7UA) Good size hall for hire with stage, kitchen & storage facilities St Anne’s School Rural setting with parking close to Mapledurham village Can accommodate for example: • Children's parties / Family celebrations Saturday 23rd June saw the beginning of four busy the stocks were a big attraction where plucky teachers were pelted with wet •Classes / Meetings / Sales & Exhibitions weeks of events leading up to the end of term sponges. The PSA expressed thanks to all the local companies who donated •Drama & Music Groups with The Summer Fair – Food’n Fun Discovery Day prizes and offered other support to the Summer Fair. One off occasions or multi bookings organized by the Parents Staff Association. On one At the beginning of July, a Summer Concert was presented and the school For further enquiries contact Jane Bowen of the many sunny days in June, a fantastic turnout sports took place on the field. Years 4, 5 and 6 took part in the Triathlon 0118 9722978 celebrated the school community at the Food and event hosted by Queen Anne’s School. Despite the heat, all the children Fun Festival. The international food stalls were a made a tremendous effort to complete the three events of swimming, bike- huge hit where lots of parents came with food to riding and running, and all returned to school proudly wearing their medals. sell which were typical dishes of their different To complete a very busy week, the PSA organized a family camp out night M.J. GODDARD nationalities. Playing the games, organized by for Friday!! Year 6 and some former pupils, gave the children On 12th July, the KS2 end of term production ‘Daniel, a Hard Act to lots of fun on the school field. 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