Looking for pioneers Come and sing Handel’s Messiah Hill and Addison Way has not in On Saturday 13 May 2006 the on the afternoon of 13 May at the start of Christian Aid Week use for several years now Free Church Choir will be 3.30 pm in the Church as despite there will be a retiring collection because it is always rather wet. performing excerpts from the nature of the concert we for Christian Aid. There will be Indeed the gardens in the houses Handel’s Messiah at 7.30 pm in would like the music to be of a no charge made for entry to the at the lower end of the site are the Church. As Messiah is such a high standard. Music can be concert. We are hoping to form always flooded. Two large pits well-known and popular work provided if required and singers an orchestra especially for the were dug to act as soakaways we are inviting other singers to in all parts are very welcome. performance. In an article in but they created a dangerous join us for the performance As well as the singers and If anyone has any questions The Times last April, hazard. In spite of many attempts which will take the form of a musicians an important part of regarding singing or playing in it was revealed that a When the by the former Chairman of the ‘Come and Sing’ event. Anyone the evening will be the audience the concert they should contact swing towards healthy eating Allotment Committee went Allotments Committee, David who would like to join with us for which there is no rehearsal! Ken Dougall (telephone 01462 has sent sales of seeds to a level on its annual walkabout in July Rapson, and me to get Thames for the performance will be We warmly invite everyone along 420654) or any Free Church not seen since The Good Life 2005, it was very impressed by Water to deal with the problem, expected to attend the rehearsal to the concert and as this will be Choir member. series in the 1970s. Sales of food the range and quality of what they could not find a solution. seeds and plants are worth almost was being grown. One of the However when Jane got on to £35 million a year compared runners-up in the Best Kept Plot them, they paid more attention A concert Horticultural with £29.8 million a year in 2001. competition had taken over only and I am happy to say that they Interestingly, it claimed that ‘the this year and by hard work and found the leaking pipe which green-fingered foodies are more the application of large quantities was causing the problem. of English song... Society seeks likely to be women’. Although of manure had produced an So there is a great opportunity ...reflecting the melodies of the culture ultimately becoming working on allotments is normally amazing variety of high quality for those who have a pioneering 350 years since the Jews returned performers, impresarios and Honorary considered to be a largely male vegetables and fruit. This was a joint spirit and would like to start an to this Sceptre’d Isle. patrons in the musical world, as activity there are, in fact, many effort by a family, which shows allotment, to take on one of the What could be better than to well as spectators. Auditor women working away on the how the work can be shared. plots here. spend a summer’s evening being The Alyth Choral Society After many years of sterling various sites around the Suburb. I had the pleasure of taking The soil is in very good serenaded by the harmonies of continues and pays homage to service to at least three Hon. The great attraction is that work the new Trust Manager, Jane condition and should produce Purcell, Handel or Elgar? The Alyth this tradition and our summer Treasurers of the Horticultural on an allotment provides healthy Blackburn, around the allotment good crops. This is a good time Choral Society’s summer concert concert spans the 350 years of Society, Richard Hutchison is exercise, good company and sites which the Trust owns, in of year to start planning what will do just that for you, and British musical harmony. moving away from the area. advice from neighbouring plot- March 2005. Like most people you are going to plant and start refreshments are included too! The concert is on Sunday The society is therefore looking holders and the certainty that who live on the Suburb who to prepare the soil. If you are Back in the times of Oliver 9th July 2006 at 7.30pm, North for someone to take his place. If you are eating fresh food, grown have never been to one of the interested in finding out more, Cromwell the Jews started to West Reform Synagogue, Alyth you, or someone you know, may organically. Once you have sites, it was quite an eye-opener please contact me on 020 8455 return to England having been Gardens, London NW11. Tickets be interested, please write to stared to dig over the soil, regular to her to see these areas of land 9320 or email me at j_freeborn absent since 1290 and they £15, £10 (conc) from 8958 7641 Chris Page at 32 Wordsworth visits to your allotment to keep which you would not come @hotmail.com eagerly absorbed the local or 8457 8795. Walk NW11 6AU. the weeds at bay ensure that the across accidentally. One of the JOHN FREEBORN, CHAIRMAN, work is never too hard. sites which is between Hogarth HGSRA ALLOTMENTS COMMITTEE are asked to ensure that Fete and Maypole Dancing with applications for funds be made events at Fellowship House and by the end of June to RA grounds and on Willifield Green. chairman David B Lewis at In association with the Proms, a Do you belong to the National Trust?
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