King's Thorn & the Birches Newsletter
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KKiinngg''ss TThhoorrnn && TThhee BBiirrcchheess NNeewwsslleetttteerr A Newsletter for the Villages of King's Thorn, Little Birch & Much Birch – June 2007 Village Hall DIARY DATES JUNE 2007 The Management Committee for LBVH is ND 2 JUNE – LB Village Hall Tidy-up organising a working party to undertake a TH much needed tidy up of the outside. If you can 6 JUNE – Golden Valley Community & Pact Forum spare a couple of hours on SATURDAY 2ND 7TH JUNE – Much Birch Parish Council Meeting JUNE from 10.00am onwards your help will 12TH JUNE – Evergreen Club Outing be much appreciated. Please note, this was 12TH JUNE – Whist Drive th scheduled to take place on the 12 May but due 15TH JUNE - Summer Pudding Evening to adverse weather, was cancelled. 15TH JUNE – Summer Garden Party __________________________________ 21ST JUNE – History Walk in Little Birch Forum 23RD JUNE – Violette Szabo G.C. Memorial Gathering The next Golden Valley Community and 26TH JUNE – History Group AGM Pact Forum is to be held in Peterchurch 28TH JUNE – Little Birch Bingo Community Hall on WEDNESDAY 6TH ADVANCE NOTICES JUNE at 7.30pm. If you care about the ST community you live in, please come along 1 JULY - Treasure Hunt and Cream Teas 7TH JULY - Little Birch Church FÊte and meet your Local Policing Team and DATE UNKNOWN - Mini Antiques Roadshow to value items that you may have dug up out Council Representatives and have your to your garden. say! __________________________________ On THURSDAY, 21ST JUNE Adrian The Evergreen Club Whist Drive Harvey is to lead a history walk taking After the super Blue Badge tour of Following another successful drive and you to some parts of Little Birch parish gorgeous villages in the Cotswolds, the through popular demand, a further Whist you may never have known existed! This TH next trip comprises a boat trip from Drive will be held on TUESDAY, 12 is an opportunity to see on the ground Bradford on Avon on the Kennet & Avon JUNE 7.30 pm start at Little Birch what you may have read about in Little Canal which will be on TUESDAY, 12th Village Hall. Excellent prizes and Birch on Aconbury Hill. JUNE. In the morning, those members refreshments, entrance fee £1.50. Please Adrian is the author of the section in this who wish to go into Court Gardens at note the change from a Wednesday to a book The Ownership and Use of Land Holt, will be dropped off and picked up in Tuesday. 1540 – 1840. He will guide the walk time for the 3 O’clock boat from Bradford. Proceeds in aid of hall refurbishment through the parish examining the different The price will be £11 per head (includes funds. ways in which its farms have developed the boat trip and tea) (£13 for non- __________________________________ over the centuries: Bromley, New Mills, members) with a further £4.80 each for Summer Garden Party The Ruff, Upper House, Lower House, non-National Trust members at Court TH Church Farm, Well Orchard, Green Farm Gardens. PLEASE REMEMBER TO Join us on FRIDAY, 15 JUNE for an and Castle Nibole. The walk will be about Evening Summer Garden Party with BRING YOUR N.T. CARD. You must 3 miles, mainly along green lanes and Strawberries and Cream and ‘Fizz’ at pre-book this trip by telephoning Beverley unadopted roads, a bit hilly and stout 01981 540406 before Thursday 31 May Chelston Grange, Much Birch at 7.00pm shoes are advised, particularly if the until 9.00pm. to raise funds for Much or Bridget (01981 540932). weather has been wet. Birch Church. Tickets are available at It would help if you could indicate Since this is a ‘one-way’ walk we will whether you wish to go to Court Gardens £6.00 (children £3.00) available from need to organise car transport. If you when booking. Sheila Mortimore – Tel 01981 541022 or would like to come on the walk please from the Churchwardens. Pick up Times are: would you be at Little Birch village hall 8.45 Coach Depot, Brandon __________________________________ with or without your car at 6.00 pm (we 8.55 Tump Lane Bungalows will leave at 6.10) We will endeavour to 9.00 The Park, Wormelow Summer Pudding Evening FRIDAY, 15TH JUNE at Little Birch organise just enough cars to transport 9.05 Tump Lane (Middle) everyone down to New Mills Farm where 9.10 Poor Clares Convent Village Hall 7.30pm start - we will leave these cars then, at the end of 9.15 Kings Thorn Bus Shelter Eat as many as you dare the evening, we will ensure everyone is re- 9.20 M.B. Church Bus Stop Entrance fee £5.00 for adults and £3.00 for 9.25 Axe & Cleaver Bus Stop united with their car! We intend to start 9.35 Broome Farm Lay-by children (14yrs & under). Raffle and the walk soon after 6.30 and should arrive 9.45 Merton Hotel, Ross refreshments available. at Little Birch village hall about 9.00 pm. 9.50 Fonteine Court, Ross __________________________________ There will be a most welcome __________________________________ Walk in Aconbury Wood ploughman’s to greet us with alcoholic the local sawmills, including those at Millennium Green and refreshment (cost £6). Holme Lacy and Pontrilas. After his neighbouring fields is progressing. The __________________________________ marriage to Violet and the births of pipes that have been already daughters, Susan and Pauline, Arthur took welded together will be placed in position Violette Szabo G.C. over the Castle Inn in 1953 and was a in the trench that will be The Seventh Memorial Gathering will be popular landlord. David was born here and then back filled. The array of heavy on SATURDAY 23RD JUNE at 2.00pm. then in 1966 the family moved to equipment on site is impressive. ‘Conifers’, the new house on the other If you would like to join us for the _________________________________ celebration of her life, please telephone side of the lane which Arthur and Violet Rosemary Rigby MBE (owner and had built for them. Arthur then went to Walk in Aconbury Wood founder of The Violette Szabo G.C. work for George and Tudor, the builders’ In May around 70 people set off from Museum) on 01981 540477 merchants, who later were taken over by Little Birch Village Hall to be led round Jewsons. On his retirement, the family ____________________________ the woods by Geraint Richards, who is moved to the Ludlow area and then later head forester for the Duchy of Cornwall, LB & KT History Group AGM to Gobowen, near Oswestry. and Graham Taylor, director of Pryor and This will be held at 7.30pm. on TUESDAY, On Easter Sunday, the family met up at Rickett Silviculture who are contractors TH 26 JUNE in Little Birch Village Hall. Little Birch Church as they had done 10 for the local Duchy woodlands. It was a Everyone is welcome. Now that our book is and 20 years previously but this time to most interesting if slightly damp evening published it does not mean we are going to celebrate Arthur and Violet’s Diamond and we were given a wealth of information cease to exist. Indeed we hope to keep busy , Wedding anniversary. It was a fine sunny organising walks and talks and carrying out about the woods and future plans. day and although Arthur was in a further research. Since so many of you have We entered through the gate behind the bought the book, at least some of you must wheelchair he enjoyed the service and the chapel where we were given a brief have had your memories jogged about family then moved to the Axe and Cleaver background of the Duchy’s acquisition of information, documents or photographs which for a celebratory lunch. Arthur will be the woods and its management over the you have or know about and which we failed to sadly missed by a wide circle of friends previous 5 years. The plantation of sweet include in the book, to say nothing of errors and we send our sincere condolences to chestnut and fir was then pointed out. which you may have discovered. We are Violet, Susan, Pauline and David and their Plans are now to remove the firs (which seriously considering putting together some families and to sister in law by marriage, acted as nurse trees to encourage long sort of supplement in which these could be Grace Grundy, who lived for many years included so please get in touch or come to the straight trunks on the chestnuts) and most AGM. If you would like to join the group at in Little Birch but who now lives in of the chestnuts will be coppiced (cut this stage you would be most welcome so, Ludlow. down to the base) as such a large number again, come to the AGM. We’ll see you Congratulations are extended to EDITH have been damaged by squirrels. The there!! DAVIES in Upper Wrigglebrook Barn, healthy trees will be left as standards. th _________________________________ who recently celebrated her 90 birthday. Squirrels, which have a particular No election was needed this time for fondness for chestnuts, have stripped the Bingo members of Little Birch Parish Council bark in many places and there are various Little Birch Village Hall – THURSDAY, but good wishes are sent to those elected control methods being used to reduce their TH 28 JUNE - eyes down at 8.00pm. to Much Birch Parish Council and to number. Warfarin has been used but now Proceeds in aid of hall refurbishment Richard Smith, who was elected to trapping and shooting are the favoured fund.