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King's Thorn & the Birches Newsletter KKiinngg''ss TThhoorrnn && The Birches Newsletter The Birches Newsletter A Newsletter for the Villages of King's Thorn, Little Birch & Much Birch – May 2008 Much Birch Village Market Don’t forget the next Market which is on DIARY DATES MAY 2008 FRIDAY 25TH APRIL between 2.30pm. 1ST MAY – M.B.P.C. Meeting and 4.30pm. in Much Birch Community 10TH MAY – Grand Designs & Posh Puds Hall. Cut your ‘food miles’.... come along 13TH MAY – Evergreen Club Outing to support Herefordshire producers. 13TH MAY – Whist Drive The MAY market is FRIDAY 23RD. As 20TH MAY – W.I. well as the usual producers, we have some 23RD MAY – Village Market new ones. Greenflynn greengrocers bring 29TH MAY - Bingo vegetables and fruit at reasonable prices and Lynn, from Fresh From the Field, will ADVANCE NOTICES take orders for Free Range poultry, as well 11TH JUNE- New Mills Farm walk with Adrian Harvey as bringing a small amount for sale on the 15TH JUNE- Open gardens at Uplands day. The Country Fudge Company had a 27TH JUNE – Halfway Community Theatre stand for the first time in January and has 4TH JULY- Summer Pudding evening asked to come again, which is what we like to hear! Laura is bringing unusual herbaceous plants to help us look forward __________________________________ 9.00 The Park, Wormelow to summer. Hopefully, by the time you Grand Designs – Posh Puds 9.05 Tump Lane (Middle) read this, we shall have a regular Come and hear the behind the scenes story 9.10 Poor Clares Convent fishmonger too. of GRAND DESIGNS’ visit to Hallow 9.15 Kings Thorn Bus Shelter We wish Lorraine and Gordon Games, of End House, Much Birch; the trials, 9.20 M.B. Church Bus Stop Gorzac Farms, well, after their accident on tribulations, fun & excitement of building 9.25 Axe & Cleaver Bus Stop the way to the January Market and look your own grand design. 9.40 Merton Hotel forward to seeing them again soon. There will be punch on arrival and 9.45 Fonteine Court _________________________________________________________ Please come to visit us and maybe enjoy a afterwards you can try as many puds and cup of tea or coffee and a piece of cake desserts as your little tum can manage! Whist Drive provided by Chris . Bring your own drink. We are holding a Whist Drive at Little For further details please contact Kath SATURDAY, 10TH MAY at 7.00pm. in Birch Village Hall on TUESDAY 13TH Watts 01981 540382 Much Birch hall, For tickets at £10 per MAY. We shall start at 7.30pm. The __________________________________ head Please ring: Lesley 01981 540366 or entrance fee will be £1.50. There are M.B.P.C. John 540980 excellent prizes and refreshments will be Parish Council Meetings This must be the perfect way to spend a available. New players are always The Parish Council meets on the first Saturday evening! welcome. Thursday of each month (excluding ____________________________________________________________________ __________________________________ August & January) at 7.30pm. in the Evergreen Club W.I. Community Centre. Local residents are The sun shone on us in Tewkesbury for The Open meeting in April was a great very welcome to attend and air their views the morning of our first outing of the year. success. Ellie Targett gave a very in the Open Discussion. The afternoon in the Cotswolds, with interesting talk. Unfortunately there are no minutes for Mary Badger, was as great a success as it The meeting on TUESDAY 20TH MAY is publication this month. was last year and very much enjoyed by a Resolutions meeting which is for TH Next meeting everyone. On TUESDAY 13 MAY we members only. THURSDAY 1ST MAY at 7.00pm. is the shall be going to Hungerford, arriving in __________________________________ Annual Meeting of Much Birch Parish. It time to browse in the antique shops or Bingo will be followed by the AGM of M.B. stroll along the Kennett and Avon canal. This will be at Little Birch Village Hall on Parish Council and then the Parish There is a handy café and a choice of THURSDAY 29TH MAY. Eyes down Council Meeting. places for lunch. In the afternoon we at 8.00pm. There are good prizes and have a trip on a canal boat with tea. The Parish Clerk refreshments will be available. If you have any queries on Parish Council cost is £15 for members and £17 for ____________________________ matters please telephone the Clerk on visitors. This includes the boat fare and 01432 870874 or write to: Mrs Kath tea. The numb er to ring is 01981 540932. Halfway Community Theatre TH Greenow, Hackford House, Dinedor, The pick-ups are:- On FRIDAY 27 JUNE at 7.30pm in Hereford, HR2 6PD. 8.45 Brandon Coach Depot Much Birch Community Hall, we proudly 8.55 Tump Lane (bungalows) present our 'SUMMER SIZZLER'!!! Join us for an evening of music and and sat outside and waited to walk home Daisy Cooke’s wedding. He worked up drama, including a welcome return to the at lunchtime. until noon at Whitecross Farm, Bridstow, folk group 'Compost Heap'. In those days water was a precious cycled home to Little Birch, had a wash Tickets are £6.00 from Jenny Wrigley on resource and while a rainwater tank for and change and met up with Frank at 01981 540617. washing was helpful all drinking water Sunnybank to walk to Little Birch Church. (Strawberries and sparkling wine are had to be carried twice a day from the He sang in the choir at Little Birch Church included) . local wells and Wrigglebrook Pitch for many years with the three brothers and __________________________________ seemed very steep when carrying two three sisters Bowen from Church Farm. Local News buckets of water. They enjoyed summer outings to Barry, th A warm welcome is extended to MANDY On his 14 . birthday in 1931, Frank saw Bristol and Bath and the Forest of Dean and STEPHEN NAYLOR who have the teacher, Mrs. Jones at 9am. and told under the leadership of the then curate, moved into Prospect Cottage together with her he had found a job. She wished him Rev. Ind. their dog, ’Meg’. We hope they will be well and off he went to the Guy’s Hospital In the 1930’s, the rifle club at Kings Thorn very happy in their new home. Estate Yard at the bottom of the Thorn and was very strong and Frank with David Congratulations are sent to ELAINE and started work at 9.30am. His first job was Dyke, Vic Symonds, Raymond Gwynne DAN LANE, who have moved to Lea, on at Twyford where a cottage chimney was and others won the Hereford League on at the birth of Alice May who weighed in at being rebuilt and he assisted the late least two occasions and he still had the 8lb. Charles Gwynne (Roy’s father). He medals that were awarded. These small A very warm welcome is also given to worked for Guy’s Hospital for some 12 bore target competitions took place mainly PATSY and ANDREW COLLINSON years, mainly on building maintenance in the winter evenings which meant that who are preparing to move into Model and learned a good deal about bricklaying they had to race home from work, have Cottage, Little Birch with their 3 children, and stonework especially from the late their meal and a wash and then catch a bus Holley, Iona and Aidan. We hope they Frank Verry and in due time became a if they were playing away. The matches will be very happy in the community. skilled craftsman himself. took them all over the area from Ross to It is good to report that FRANK SHORT In those days Guys Hospital Estate Wellington. On the way home, Frank is feeling much better and now at home covered some 10,000 acres across most of would play the mouth-organ to lead the after his stay in Gloucester Hospital. South Herefordshire from Vowchurch to singing which only stopped when the We are sorry to hear of the death of MR. Ross in the south and Lyde to the north. instrument became blocked with crisps! FRANK COOKE of Little Birch at the Travelling to these farms was by bicycle They had a one-valve radio in the family Weir Nursing Home at the age of 90. for which an allowance of one shilling per cottage and, in 1939, they heard Frank was born at Snowdell, Holme Lacy, week (10p) on top of the ten shillings Chamberlain telling them that war had the home of his mother’s sister. He never (50p) wage (a total of 55p per five-and-a- been declared with Germany. He joined saw his father who was killed in Belgium half days’ work in present monetary the Home Guard in 1940 and uniforms in Sept. 1917 a few months after he was denominations). The employees had to be were issued in 1941. Training took place born. This left his mother in great distress at their place of work by 7.30am. A during the evenings and at week ends and as she could no longer manage their number of amusing incidents occurred there was a look out point in the field smallholding in Little Birch and so she over that period including one at Stretton opposite Lower House at the far end of moved in with her parents at a cottage at Sugwas, where there were three Barrack Hill from where the Munitions Ramsden, Upper Bogmarsh. At the age of interconnecting fishponds. There was a Factory at Rotherwas and the city could be four, Frank started school at Holme Lacy leak in the stonework of one of the ponds observed.
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