PARISH NEWS 65p VERYAN AND RUAN LANIHORNE AUGUST 2013
A hot and tired WHAT A GLORIOUS DAY! but very popular What a day! According to a friend the ‘praying for fine rabbit is taken weather’ went a bit over the top, but wasn’t it fantastic! home after A huge thank you to everyone who contributed. being ‘shown The absence of the re-enactment group to perform the off‘ at the opening ceremony was a disappointment, but as ever Fr fête. Doug came to the rescue. He introduced Mrs Myra Cutler who presented plaques Lots more to the winners of the school poster competition, Caitlin Smith and Lucy Brisley. photos of The new stalls - Nail Art, Pets’ Corner and the Candy the fête on Floss Kid, all run by young people - were very success- the church ful, with Steel Roses and ‘Mr Wacky’ giving much pleas- ure to young and old. website - The school’s stall with tombola, ice creams and games and in caught visitors as they arrived and they were tempted by colour! the plant stall opposite. The mug tombola, bric-a- brac and bottle stall attracted customers in the lovely marquee, with Splat the Rat and the Ducking Stool causing great amusement nearby. In the hall books, ‘nearly-new’ clothes, the cake stall and COLIN, SUZANNE & CHLOE raffle all collected more money towards the heating fund, WELCOME YOU ALL TO while cream teas and a reviving cuppa were available in- doors out of the heat. There are so many people to thank, but the advertising The New Inn was so good that I am going to name names; Yolande, for press and magazine coverage - all we could have asked Veryan for and more; Dave - the verge-side posters caught the eye and were big enough to read! Thank you both so much. While everyone is basking in this glorious weather and fond memories of the fete are still giving a buzz, please give some thought to next year. The Fete needs a coordi- nator for 2014. Lots of people will help, it just needs someone to pull everything together. I know it seems a long way off, but PLEASE start thinking now! And on behalf of the PCC, thank you for helping to raise £2047 [as at 18 July] Ann Craven Enjoying an enviable reputation for a great atmosphere, friendly service Our church websites And delicious home-cooked food www.veryanchurch.org.uk tel: 01872 501 362 www.ruanlanihornechurch.org.uk www.portloechurch.org.uk ACCOMMODATION AVAILABLE
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above freezing, water very grow and then apply gly- pass for similar shape and col- sparingly and if they go leggy phosate weed killer to my our. I haven’t grown any shal- IN YOUR cut them back in early spring. glove and wipe it up the lots this year; the judge was A little more effort and you stems. A systemic weed kil- wholly dismissive of last GARDEN can take cuttings now. ler (as the name implies it year’s attempt. The sweet corn Choose a strong shoot, pref- goes through the plant’s sys- decided to grow once it also erably without a flower, and tem) will go to the root and saw the sun at last; it’s an this month trim it off just below a leaf the couch will die. This may early variety that will be late joint. Remove the bottom take at least one season. Pull- because of the early summer leaves and the little green ing couch grass is dangerous weather. My new potatoes August is the month for sitting stipules along the stem and as any bit left in the soil will were three weeks late but and contemplating what you leave two or three leaves at multiply quickly in running haven’t succumbed to blight - have achieved in the garden this the top and pop it in a 4” pot rhizomes in the soil. My yet- and the first picking of year and to start thinking about in compost to about one third intentions were honourable broad beans was early July; next. Except that there is still of its length. The same can be until I noticed thousands of we’ve usually finished them plenty to do. done with marguerites, fuch- little plants coming up. by then! All in all it has been I have received a lot of ques- sias, osteospermum and abuti- These are the bright orange challenging year weather wise tions on various topical issues lon. Keep them in a shadier escholtzia, often called the for vegetables, but shrubs that this month so I hope to cover area in a frame or in the house Californian poppy. I could enjoyed the wet summer and them all here. and pot them on when there is not remove them. I love winter have proved amazing. I Why do we side shoot tomatoes good growth. Keep them them and they flower for can’t wait to see the hydrangea and cucumbers and when do we fairly dry and do not feed weeks. So I am carefully heads on show this year; I take the growing tip out? As until growth starts again next pulling couch and probably think they will need an extra with so many gardening ques- spring. Kept inside for the will be for years! Equally if bench! tions it’s all common sense winter next year’s plants will all these poppies seed I will There is no time for lounging really. If you want a plant to be ready for you and you have millions next year. in deck chairs this August. grow upwards then by remov- won’t have to spend so much. They are also coming up Strawberry runners need peg- ing the side shoots you will stop I saw 1.5 litre pots of pelargo- under my tripod of three ging into pots to make new the goodness from the roots niums at £5.95 each this year, sweet pea plants which you plants, hedges need trimming being diverted sideways as it scandalous, despite the rising may recall Gerald gave to now the birds have fledged, rises up the stem and you will costs to the grower. me earlier in the year. He it’s time to prune summer have a well behaved more man- I inspected a fabulous clump exhibited the most marvel- climbers that can be reached ageable plant. Try and remove of dahlias recently that had lous blooms at last year’s like wisteria and rambler roses them early in the morning to stopped flowering and it was show. On June 7 th I heard my if they are out of hand. Bulbs prevent bleeding as the sap far too early. The panic was husband talking to someone need to be ordered for Septem- starts to rise. The side shoots that the dahlia had proved on our patio ‘bringing my ber planting, trained forms of are the bits that grow in the magnificent and was early wife flowers eh? While I am apples like cordons, fans and axils of the leaves attached to and the gardener wanted some here?’ It was Gerald with espalier need careful pruning the main stem. Taking the for the Show in September. the most magnificent bunch to spurs now. Slugs need chas- growing tip out is only a ques- The problem was simply that of multi coloured, highly ing, tortrix moth caterpillars tion of how much height you the dead heads had not been scented sweet peas for me. squishing and spent raspberry have. Leave the tips in until the taken off. The plant was cov- They lasted 9 days in a vase canes cutting down. I am also plant hits the top of the green- ered in seed heads. A plant – fantastic. He truly is the nurturing a vast number of ash house or just send it sideways has only one real aim in life master; I picked my first trees which Christine kindly along a frame of canes. The aim and that is to procreate. Once bunch, half the size on July dug up for me. She has a veri- is to gain maximum upward it has set seed it feels its job is 8th ! I bet he will still have table ash plantation from trees growth and the plant will keep done and it will not need to loads for the Show because that were pollarded and that producing up the stem. Remove produce more flowers. Take he will be picking regularly have set seed so easily. I am the lower leaves continually off all the dead heads that you and therefore stopping those keeping them carefully in the below the next truss which is see on any flowering plant setting seed. (I suspect he hope that they can be planted forming. The plant does not and it will continue to pro- will also be feeding with once we know that ash die need them and you let in light duce flowers for you whilst something amazing!). I back is not coming here and and air thus avoiding disease temperature and light levels hoped to put some of my that could be some time away. and aiding the ripening process. permit. sweet pea flowers in the As always the ’jobs to do’ list Water at the same time every One border in my garden has Show but feel guilty as I did is endless, but leave time to day, this will help to prevent persistent couch grass which not grow the plants, Gerald nurture those Veryan Show blossom end rot. Also feed comes up through all the did. stopping exhibits. regularly. Any plant is just like plants and it is almost impos- So five weeks to go until the you. It likes light, warmth, food sible to remove and looks Show, my pumpkin was NB and water. unsightly. This year I was looking sad but it perked up Can I keep my geraniums (or determined to eradicate it. I with the sunshine, too late I more correctly pelargoniums) took all the herbaceous plants suspect. I am hunting down over winter? Yes if you have a out in the spring and left only each caterpillar in my cab- greenhouse or better still a con- the hydrangeas which I knew bages and wondering if I will servatory or spare room with I could weed amongst. My have three onions the same plenty of light. Keep them intention was to let the couch size or three eggs that might August 2013 page 3
here being the way the meta- who had come to the Church Today in Lincoln Cathedral, Letter from phor no longer fits as it had from essentially non-religious we had the ordinations and I done from the time of the backgrounds. The one he listened to the Charles Wesley early Church up to the mid- quotes at length highlighted hymn, ‘Love Divine’ with its Lincoln dle ages. The idea of a God the barriers to non-believers evocative music and words so ‘up there’ or a God ‘out of the imagery and language utterly steeped in a meta- Honest to God there’ had become untenable; used in the Church which in physical understanding of an alternative was urgently truth is desperately out of line God. Can the words ‘Joy of needed with contemporary ways of Heaven to earth come down’ A book that sent shock waves thinking. possibly be recast? through the Church was pub- Robinson draws on the work lished fifty years ago this year. It was called Honest to God and of two remarkable men: Paul To even attempt a summary Robinson sees at the heart of was written by the then Bishop Tillich, who saw God as not of Robinson’s thinking would a faith life, love. Love en- outside at all, but rather the fail to do justice to a monu- acted in everyday life by the of Woolwich, John Robinson. very ground of our being; mentally thoughtful short way the Christian welcomes and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, book. I want, rather, to focus strangers and aligns herself Robinson says that he wrote who wrote from prison under on a number of worries. with the disadvantaged. It is a because he had the opportunity Nazi Germany. Bonhoeffer’s Christianity of action. There of three months when other du- letters from prison talk about The first is about the idea of remains room for worship, ties were not possible, but, more ‘religionless’ Christianity, an God as the ground of our be- and perhaps this is where my than that, he wrote because it idea than has always ap- ing. Can a God within us love difficulties lie. had become an imperative. pealed to me. as we have always believed a God up there or outside can? If we are to engage with 21 st From as far back as his time at Robinson then looks to an Robinson is utterly clear that century people, we can’t go theological college he had be- intriguing collection of es- God is love. Indeed time and on using medieval imagery, come increasingly concerned at says titled ‘They became again he draws on the Bible to but at the same time we must the inadequacy of a literal un- Anglicans’, which looks at debunk much of the Church avoid the banal. I will draw a derstanding of the Bible or even the faith journey of people tradition that has built up over parallel from this last week- a mythological one; his problem centuries. end’s newspaper on one pub- lisher’s project to engage au- I am reminded of the verse in thors to re-write Shakespeare St Matthew which talks of the and what little success they Kingdom of God as being are having. It is Shake- TREVERBYN HOUSE within. But going back to the speare’s language that brings & point, if I am, along with all to life his stories with their TREVERBYN mankind grounded in God, timeless truth. Perhaps the LODGE who is going to love me? same is true of at least part of Does it matter? the Church’s library. But it is BED & BREAKFAST & not true of all of it. SELF CATERING Robinson, as befits a Bishop, is sensitive to deep and long Robinson’s book was a mas- ACCOMMODATION held beliefs even though he sively important step; we are I can’t share them. We do have think ready for another. those beliefs. When Maggie’s Dad died earlier this year, my With much love to you all non-churchgoing children were quite open in their hope that he and grandma were not Phil arguing ‘up there’.
TUESDAY 6 AUGUST 7 pm Veryan Parish Hall Tel: 01872 501201 Email: [email protected] THE HISTORY AND MAKING OF BUTTONS www.treverbyn.co.uk Caroline Cudmore For more information contact Sue Day on 501673 VISITORS AND NEW MEMBERS WELCOME
August 2013 page 4 Veryan Church Fête There was a well-stocked Present book stall... Treasure Island ...lots of A Swashbuckling family musical ‘nearly at Caerhays Castle new’ clothes.. Saturday 10 August at 4 pm DETAILS FROM www.caerhays.co.uk or 01872 501310 Or email [email protected]
Did any- body es- cape Gerald’s persuasive powers ? ‘You DO want a mug, don’t you?’
...and who could resist those lovely plants?
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things in shops and barter great and I haven’t had one Beijing to catch a flight China Update for items when I need to! yet, but the school gave us home to the UK on the Ellie Bush a HUGE bag of them 5th August. I am currently off from each… Hello Veryan! Hao jiu bu school for the annual The trip will be hectic to jian, long time, no see…I Dragon Boat Festival. say the least, but will be hope you are all keeping Dragon Boat falls on the full of sightseeing, ele- well. fifth day of the fifth month, phant riding, temples (of according to their lunar cal- course there have to be My China trip seems to be endar. It gets held annually temples!), lots of disappearing before my and has been for over 2000 yummy food and of very eyes, the leaving date years! It is celebrated by course, sunshine! racing ever closer. I have boat races in the shape of my last two classes at dragons. Competing teams To say I’m excited just AUHS in the next week; row their boats forward to a doesn’t cover it and all exams are completed drumbeat racing to reach the every day there is some- I am happy to announce and marked. The weather finish end first. thing new to add to the my new arrival date to is certainly hotting up, itinerary; a flight to Veryan; I will be home on usually at a constant 28 The boat races during the book, a hostel room to the 5 th August! A week degrees now but add in the Dragon Boat Festival are reserve or a Cambodian later than planned but that humidity and you can traditional customs to hon- visa to organise. is because I am going trav- count on being very our the poet Chu Yuan. Chu elling around South East sweaty, very hot and quite Yuan drowned on the fifth I’m incredibly lucky that Asia for a month! uncomfortable at times. day of the fifth lunar month I have the time and in 277 B.C. Chinese people funds to make this trip A friend (that I met here in My Mandarin lessons are threw bamboo leaves filled possible and I will back China) and I will be coun- going very well indeed. I with cooked rice into the such fantastic memories try-hopping for four whole can now order food and water. Therefore the fish of my time in Asia (such weeks. We start in Singa- drink in restaurant, intro- could eat the rice rather than a shame that I can’t pore on the 8 th July then go duce myself, tell the time, the poet. This later turned bring home an orphan to Cambodia, Thailand, tell a taxi where I need to into the custom of eating baby elephant!). Malaysia, Philippines, go, have a semi-long con- tzungtzu and rice dump- Hong Kong then back to versation with locals, buy lings. They don’t smell
August 2013 page 6 Veryan ringers travel ‘abroad’! Douglas Reece reports
On a sunny Saturday in July four ringers from Veryan tower enjoyed the annual ‘Ring and BBQ’ lunchtime event organised by Eric Bannister on behalf of the Truro Diocesan Guild of Ringers. Sitting out in the sunshine at St Erme church Yolande, Julia, Nicola and Douglas enjoyed their sandwiches in convivial company before joining other ringers in the tower for a couple of rings. The bells are similar in weight to our own Veryan bells, and after a few pulls we all settled down to some enjoyable ringing. We hope to make this an annual trip. Mum keeps me up to date with all village goings-on and I look forward to see- ing you when I return, can we compare sun tans?!
¡ ¢ Huítóu jiàn! = See you soon!
August 2013 page 7 RUAN LANIHORNE HISTORY Londis Late Shop EXHIBITION A few months ago I was asked if I would do an exhibition on the history of Ruan Lanihorne in September as part of J. J.HARRIS & SON (ENGINEERS) LTD the Roseland Festival and as I had already amassed quite a bit about the parish, I said ‘yes’. The exhibition will cover the period from when a castle was here right up to Treworran the present day. I thought by covering events up to today this would be of interest to those who have not been in the parish very long. After all, just because I know that Garage the village pond was created and isn’t natural, it doesn’t Bessy Beneath, Ruan High Lanes, mean that everyone else does! Truro, Cornwall. Over the years I have collected all sorts of information and photographs relating to the parish. The castle period 01872 530 304/5 up to the 1800s is fairly well covered but I am always looking for more bits and pieces. I have been able to build Off Licence/Groceries/Newspapers extensive trees for a lot of the inhabitants in the 1800s and you would be amazed at how far there people trav- elled around the world. For the late 1960s I have been MOT TESTING CENTRE able to provide various snippets from my own knowledge General Engineers - Arc Welding- Steel Fabrication, Sun Electronic Tuning which only leaves the early 1900s. I would like to include items relating to World Wars I and II; unfortunately, not Calor Gas and Solid Fuel Stockist having been born then, and with so few people remaining who can remember that far back, I am finding it difficult. Mon-Sat: 8.00am-8.00pm Two topics that I would like to find out more about are Sun: 9.00am-7.30pm the Ruan Home Guard and evacuees in the parish. Did you have a relative that served in the war? Were you evacuated to the parish? Could you help with photographs or names? Any photographs would be copied and re- turned straight away. And why not come along to the Reading Room on 24, 25 and 26 September and go back in time? There will also be guided tours of the village. The local, family run Nursery Carol Hughes [501855] With home or locally grown stock Perennials and evergreen plants and shrubs Cacti and succulents CORNWALL HISTORIC CHURCHES Herbaceous plants for perennial summer colour TRUST Exotic plants hardy within our local climate CORNWALL CHURCHES DAY Bedding plants for all seasons 14 SEPTEMBER Planting service to your own tubs or baskets, new or refills We have an immensely rich heritage of places of Vegetable seeds, composts and plant foods worship in Cornwall: they are part of our landscape and our Terracotta and ornamental pots history. Their maintenance falls on individual In season fresh garden produce and eggs from happy hens, and ice-cream! parishes and any major scheme can be beyond our resources. The Trust exists to provide grant support, but itself needs in- National Garden Gift vouchers sold and accepted come to be able to help our churches. Garden advisory service - planning, design, sorting problems Planting and hard landscaping can be arranged There are lots of ways in which you can help: and it doesn’t have to be on the specified day. Coffee morning, cream tea, Full floristry service is available for funerals, weddings, parties or just your quiz evening, ‘have a go’ on the organ, a trip up the tower, home. Cut flowers are sourced ethically from Cornwall and flower markets to suit your requirements teddy bears’ picnic - even a sponsored ‘clean-up’ - the church keeps half of the money raised, the other half goes to the Trust. Open 9-5 - closed Sunday afternoons Or ring for your personal appointment The Roseland Nursery, Trewartha Chapel, Trewartha, And it’s a way of saying ‘thank you’ for grants already re- Veryan TR2 5QJ tel: 01872 501825 ceived, and for gaining ‘brownie points’ for future applica- tions! www.theroselandnursery.co.uk Jeanne Hitchings is the Trust’s representative in our area— contact her for information [501114]
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Joyce Goldie has ‘a trace of a good idea?’ Congratulations!! Tragedy often brings the gentle dove of knowledge in To two wonderful couples who celebrate its wake, sometimes leaves lessons to be learnt, or maybe just the trace of a good idea. exceptionally special anniversaries On a cloudy day a few weeks ago something golden, this month. buttercup yellow and just gorgeous to see drove past our house. A bus, one of the many and varied that are in use Ralph and Ann Meering’s 70th wedding now since the horrible fire in Summercourt. I’ve seen pink and white ones, red, blue and even a ’lilac anniversary falls on 7 August, bus’ (forgive me, Maeve Binchy!). But oh, that Butter- & cup Bus was a heart-warming sight, so bright against Derek and Joyce Goldie celebrate their the sky, and on a cloudy day so easy for drivers to see. 60th anniversary on the following day. In our green and sometimes deeply tunnelled lanes, our own gentle green buses are not always easy to spot, especially for visitors who may not even be expecting a Our love, congratulations and best bus at all. wishes to all of them. What welcome and uplifting joy to see a Buttercup Bus! It would surely raise a cheer from the schoolchildren on their daily journeys. Could it happen? I’ve no idea, but I intend to ask. Meanwhile thanks to wherever it came from, and what the jackpot at 100 miles an where over the years we better colour could there be for CORNwall? And this hour. had enjoyed so many from someone who doesn’t like yellow very much! But London’s tube system happy holidays. that bus was a joy to me. grew underground, ex- And here we are, nearly tending north to south, twenty years later, with Holidays meant visiting west to east, while the middle-aged children, eight Seventy Years places too difficult to reach Queen’s new ship, grandchildren and nine on… before, as travel became ‘Britannia’ a fine ambas- great-grandchildren, now easier and more comfort- sador for Britain, carried treading carefully in our the Queen to the nineties. On 7 August 1943 in En- able. Then television. The great far-flung corners of her A full life, several moves, a field, Middlesex, a young Empire. few illnesses, a lessening of Air Force recruit, later to introduction to this was of course the coronation of Everything got faster and physical abilities, failing become air crew in a Lan- bigger, and soon air travel eyesight… caster bomber, and a newly- Queen Elizabeth II. Watching this wonderful became the norm. But on August 7th in this graduated B Sc domestic In the 1960s our family summer of 2013 we will science teacher were mar- event, whole families crowded round a nine-inch expanded with the arrival celebrate our 70th wedding ried, to the distant sound of of Andrew, and a year anniversary. gunfire somewhere. screen in a darkened room, made one realise that we later came Christopher. Gone are the eager young “It won’t last” declared my By this time middle age couple, replaced now by new mother-in-law. Well, had all become ‘new Eliza- bethans’. was beckoning around the Derby and Joan, and in seventy years later here we corner, and our lives were spite of that prediction all are, still going strong, retired In our family Suzanne had appeared, to be followed changing: from early days those years ago, it did last! and living in Trewartha. in farming to big nurseries Ann Meering Our parents were born in the two years later by Laur- ence, and all the time our growing cucumbers and last years of the Victorian tomatoes, my time busy era and we were the new lives were accepting new ways: big new roads to from the school run to half generation of the 20th cen- terms and camps, the tury; after the war our lives accommodate the ever- increasing traffic - motor- Women's’ Institute, organ- stood on the brink of numer- ising Meals on Wheels, ous great inventions and dis- ways. The first was the M1 to voluntary hospital work, coveries. then family weddings and The first was electricity Nottingham from London. This was soon followed by of course grandchildren. which ousted the gas mantles And the editor’s grateful new railways - steam was And then along came re- in houses and gas lamps in tirement, ‘three-score thanks to Ann and Joyce for the streets. Hard on this was out, to be replaced by die- their continuing contribu- sel and electric trains, fast years and ten’, and the the motor car: suddenly the move we always promised tions to this magazine! An streets were filled with cars. monsters. The ‘Flying inspiration to us all. Scotsman’ to Edinburgh hit ourselves, to Cornwall,
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occupier: Collins’ Hill, Betty Dennis’s Meadow, Simon’s Trewartha - the higher homestead Ground. Earlier names include Trengrouse (tre = homestead, crous = cross), Halwen (hal = marsh, guyn = white); but Park Woon (locally Park’Oon) may be Cornish Park, enclosure, + Nowadays Trewartha in the parish of Veryan is a quiet cluster of Cornish ‘goon’, downland, (it’s the big field behind the round houses, some clearly old, several ‘newly built’ but on older foun- house) or it may refer to the name of a previous tenant, John dations, along with the grandly named Trewartha Hall and the Woon. And what about Higher and Lower Pleasure, and former Wesleyan chapel. Higher and Lower Seven Shillings? A look at the parish tithe map, drawn in 1840, shows around 20 Higher and Lower Sentry were formerly part of the glebe, households, most houses with their own gardens, and a division the land held by the parish priest to provide for his livelihood; into Trewartha Hall, Trewartha Jago, Trewartha Jenkins and they are so called because they adjoin the road to the church, Trewartha Terrill. Earlier documents also record a Trewartha ‘Sentry’ (Sanctuary) Lane. Dowrick and a Trewartha Woon. Further investigation show that And Nicola’s little wood was always called by us as children these are all names of former tenants and occupiers. As part of ‘Plantation’: and it’s named as such on the tithe map. It was the once great manor of Elerky with Ruan Lanihorne, Trewartha planted by none other than the Revd Jeremiah Trist in the early was owned by a succession of absentee landlords who merely years of the nineteenth century, so it’s survived for a couple of collected rents and agreed new or renewed tenancies. hundred years: may it long continue!. CRE In the 1690s the tenants included Margaret Hall, Stephen Jago and John Woon - hence the names of the properties. The relevant Terrill, Jenkins, and Dowrick have not yet emerged from the archives, but certainly the last two are, or were, ‘Veryan’ names. The tithe map, and the Elerky manor maps of c. 1690, give us the names of all the fields: names and boundaries very little changed over those two centuries, though I wonder whether the names - and all the hedges - still survive today. Our fields are named in a mixture of Cornish and English and are also recorded in the leases ‘for 99 years or three lives’ which was the usual length of tenancy in the western counties. It is pos- sible that the Cornish names pre-date the English ones, but im- possible to prove. ‘Park’ in a field name probably indicates an early enclosure: it’s Cornish for ‘field’, though sometimes, confusingly, used with an English word; ’close’ is later. Some names are descriptive: Square Meadow, Beef Close, Pigs’ Trewartha from the Elerky manor map of c. 1690; meadow, New Close; some suggest a sub-tenant or a previous Copyright reserved to Cornwall Record Office
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NEW AND ALTERED CRICKET FIXTURES DIARY DATES Jolly’s Drinks FORTHCOMNG EVENTS September Cornwall League 23rd Macmillan Division 3 East VERYAN VERYAN PLAYERS Coffee Morning [all Saturdays unless AUTUMN SHOW Terry Pratchett’s Broom Parc otherwise stated] ‘WYRD SISTERS’ Saturday 7 September 27th Bishop Tim’s visit to 3 August St Stephen [H] Schedules from the shop Portscatho memorial hall Veryan School 10 August Roche [A] 1&2 August or the secretary 28th 17 August Boconnoc [H] 8 pm 24 August South Petherwin [H] 501256 Callington Gospel Choir, Reserved Tickets £6.00 per person Monday 26 August Veryan Church 7.30 pm from Veryan & Roseland Stores, Newquay [A] Veryan, Ralph’s Stores, [Roseland festival] 31 August Tintagel [A] Coach trips Portscatho, 30th Division 7 East DARTMOUTH & TOTNES or by ringing 01872 501670 Portloe Harvest Supper [all Saturdays unless 25 August £30 October otherwise stated] Cribbs Causeway for shopping Nare Head Bunker 6th Veryan church 3 August St Stephen (Saltash) [A] 26 October £25 Open Day Harvest FestivaL evensong 10 August Newquay [H] Monday 12 August Roseland Churches’ choir & 17 August St Blazey [A] BRIDGEWATER CARNIVAL 2 November £25 BOOKING ESSENTIAL Bishop Christopher 6 pm 24 August Gunnislake [A] Monday 26 August BATH Christmas shopping Contact 16 Oct-27 Nov Roche [H] 1 December £30 Lawrence Holmes ‘Exploring Spiritualities’ 31 August Milton Abbot [H] For information contact 01872 278234 Portloe church on Wednesdays Judith [01872 501582] 7.30 pm ‘Come Dancing’ Additional information about forthcoming events can be sent 25 October [NOT 5th] is having a holiday in July Harvest Supper to our church websites for inclusion in the on-line diary: and August, and will start Veryan parish hall [email protected] again on [email protected] or 8 September at 7 pm November [email protected] In Veryan Parish Hall Players’ performance at as well as to the editor of Veryan now 21-23 November, ‘Parish News’ at [email protected] Dates for the rest of the year NOT 28/29th in the August magazine Veryan C.RUDRUM & SONS (CORNWALL) LIMITED Country DIPLOMA COAL MERCHANTS Market Fridays 1010----3030 to 1111----3030 am Reliable and Regular Deliveries 50 Kg Open Bag Deliveries (Feb(Feb----Dec)Dec) Pre-Pack Fuels in Clean Sealed Plastic Bags Quality Fuels Veryan Parish Hall Real British Coal Home cooked produce, TRURO (01872) 274942 MEVAGISSEY (01726) 842365 preserves, handicrafts, ST. AUSTELL (01726) 850462 plants, local vegetables REDRUTH (01209) 215561/213365 FALMOUTH (01326) 377345 Refreshments HELSTON (01326) 573661 BARTON HOUSE Orders: 01872 501559 PARC ERISSEY INDUSTRIAL ESTATE NEW PORTREATH ROAD REDRUTH TR16 4HZ
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VERYAN WI VERYAN & ROSELAND TENNIS CLUB CRAFT DAY BARN DANCE Wednesday 14 August Saturday 17 August 10 am - 3 pm CHURCHTOWN FARM, Pendower Road, VERYAN PARISH HALL VERYAN Bar & food from 6 pm Dancing to the If you would like to join us on the dayplease contact Newlyn Reelers JEAN RIGLEY on 501838 7-10.30 pm Tickets in advance £5 from 501788 At the gate £6 Accompanied children half-price Wear sensible shoes - It’s a barn!!
Wednesday 28 August CREAM TEAS at Tiny’s [Conifers, The Orchard, Veryan] from 3 pm In aid of Portloe Church
Friday 2 August Car Treasure Hunt starting at the Sports Club at 6 pm PLEASE SEE POSTERS FOR MORE DETAILS
August 2013 page 12 Daytime LOW tides at CARNE in August
Sun Mon Tues Wed Thu Fri Sat
1 2 3 7.35 8.45 9.54
4 5 6 7 8 9 10 10.50 11.37 12.18 12.55 13.29 14.00 14.32
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 15.05 15.40 16.20 17.11 18.20 7.03 8.31
18 19 20 21 22 23 24 9.54 11.02 12.00 12.51 13.37 14.18 14.55
25 26 27 28 29 30 31 15.29 16.02 16.38 17.20 18.19 19.32 8.03
New moon 6 August Full moon 21 August
MELINSEY MILL is a local family business: it’s an interesting mix of working water mill, craft gallery, café and tea room. We serve morning coffee, traditional snacks and light lunches, afternoon teas and Cornish cream teas. We also sell cider, beer and wine. All our cakes, pies and pastries are home-made in the mill kitchen. Melinsey is wheel-chair friendly, and welcomes dogs on leads outside. We open in April until the end of October: 10 am - 5.30 pm. Closed on Mondays in April, May, June, September and October, but OPEN on bank holidays. Telephone 01872 501049 TR2 5PX
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VERYAN HARVEST EVENSONG PARISH Veryan’s Harvest Festival \Round the Churches... CHURCH Evensong will be on Sun- day 6 October at 6 pm. NEWS Yes, we had hoped that Ruan THANK YOU! there would be a confirma- FROM tion on that evening but PORTLOE to Ann Craven and her great Lanihorne band of helpers for all the new arrangements are hard work and commitment being made for this, and that went into the planning the service on 6th will be We will be welcoming the No news on the church and organisation of this the traditional evensong, Bishop of St Germans, the front, apart from the fact year’s Fête - a hugely suc- with the Roseland Right Reverend Chris Gold- that cream teas continue cessful day, perhaps ironi- Churches’ Choir and smith, to Choral Evensong every Tuesday afternoon cally raising money towards plenty of harvest hymns. on 25 August to celebrate until the end of August. a new heating system for the the patronal festival of St church on the hottest day of Rumon. We shall also be But we have a message the year… joined by the Roseland from Jenny Wheatley who Churches’ Choir. is already planning one of WELCOME BACK to “Seated one day at The service begins at 6 pm. NEXT year’s events - Joyce who has started com- the organ…” ‘Secret Gardens in ing to church again after On the following Saturday, Portloe’. months of incapacity. 31 August, at 2.30 pm, we She asks for more volun- shall be holding our Annual teers to open their gardens Cream Tea in the reading in aid of the Air Ambu- Room here at Ruan. lance, on 28 and 29 June There will be the usual 2014. There’s no excuse, cakes and produce stall and as you have nearly a year a raffle. Donations for the to get them looking first- stall or raffle will be grate- rate! Contact her on fully received. 501088 or at [email protected] We were saddened to hear for more information. of the death of Claudia We will have more details Critchley at the beginning about the arrangements in of July. She was a long- due course. time member of our congre- JH gation and even on moving to Tregony continued to With the centenary of Veryan church organ falling in early October, we are worship at St Rumon’s. She looking for relevant photographs for a small display. also served for many years This shows ’Auntie Maude’ Dowrick, on the day of her retirement from the organ on the PCC. We will miss stool after an amazing 67 years of service. She began in 1917 when the then her. organist left to do war work, and gave up in 1984. PF If you can help with pictures or information, please contact Christine [501727] [This picture was lent by Margery T - to whom many thanks!] Roseland Churches’ Choir diary 2013 Sunday 11 August 6 pm Advance notice Patronal festival evensong, Gerrans VERYAN PARISH CHURCH Sunday 25 August 6 pm CENTENARY ORGAN RECITAL Patronal festival evensong, Ruan by Saturday 5 October Christopher Gray, Director of Music at Truro Cathedral Wedding at Veryan Tuesday 22 October 7 pm Sunday 6 October 6 pm BOOK tickets in advance, send £10 per person to Canon Doug Robins, The Harvest Evensong Veryan Vicarage, Veryan TR2 5QA with a telephone number or email address so that we can acknowledge receipt. Cheques payable to Veryan PCC, please Sunday 13 October 6 pm Harvest evensong, Ruan More information: 501670 or 501727
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The parishes of CHURCH SERVICES FOR August Come Dancing! VERYAN and Veryan Ruan Portloe is RUAN LANIHORNE on holiday until Priest-in-Charge: The Revd Canon Douglas Robins September!! The Vicarage, Veryan TR2 5QA Sunday 4 August Trinity 10 01872 501618 11 am Eucharist 9.30 am 10.30 am Contact Ann [501035] Canon Doug Holy Communion Morning Worship VERYAN Canon Doug Ruth Braddock or Pat [501479] (St Symphorian) for details Parish Church Sunday 11 August Trinity 11 Churchwardens 11 am Eucharist 10.30 am Mr David Elliott Canon Doug Anglican informal worship Boswague, Tregony [501230] MEDITATION GROUP & Sunday 18 August Trinity 12 VERYAN Mr Robin Rundle 11 am Eucharist 9.30 am 10.30 am Trevarthen Cottage Canon Doug Mattins Morning Worship Third Thursday in the Veryan Green Canon Doug Steve Nicholson [500950] month 2.30 pm Sunday 25 August Trinity 13 Hon. Secretary 8.30 am Holy Communion 9.30 am Mr David Elliott Canon Doug Eucharist 501650 or 501565 for [501230] 11 am MATTINS Canon Doug details Treasurer Canon Doug Mrs Helen Robins There is a warm welcome [501458] Sunday 1 September Trinity 14 for everyone and we can 11 am Eucharist 9.30 am 10.30 am Organist arrange transport if Canon Doug Holy Communion Morning Worship Mrs Joyce Goldie Canon Doug Linda Baines needed. [501565] Envelope Treasurer Mrs Marilyn Veness [501704] Magazine Editor PORTLOE (All Saints) United Church Christine Edwards Church Stewards VERYANgalleries [501727] Miss Jeanette Blamey 1, Homeyard Homes, Veryan [email protected] [501539] Advertisements Did you Know? Pat Raine vacancy [501479] Hon. Secretary We have PAINTINGS by artists such as [email protected] Mrs Jeanne Hitchings End Cottage, Portloe William Nash, Robin Leonard, Distribution coordinators [501114] Jenny Wheatley and many more! Sarah Rundle and delivery team Hon. Treasurer Mrs Joyce Gilbert Plus beautiful Jewellery, It would be helpful if Porthjulyan contributions for the Pendower Road ceramics, cards, and bags, magazine sent by e-mail could be Veryan sent as a Word 2003 document [501365] - perfect for gifts. attachment We also paint favourite VIEWS, flowers , DEADLINES RUAN LANIHORNE (St Rumon) Parish Church Portraits and MURALS Churchwardens It takes several days’ work to Mrs Pat Farr for a special present. produce the final magazine Lambourne Barn Come and see us - between the two copy and disc, so we need copy Ruan Highlanes usually by 16th of the previous [501599] Roundhouses month for inclusion in the Mr David Hughes VERYAN GREEN following month’s issue: occa- Castle Towers at sionally our printing deadlines Ruan Lanihorne [501855] require earlier delivery of the disc. PLEASE CHECK Hon. Secretary & Treasurer DEADLINE DATE ON BACK Mrs Pat Farr Tues - Sat 10 - 5-30 PAGE - and early copy is [501599] always much appreciated! 01872 501469
August 2013 page 15 The Parishes REGULAR EVENTS August Diary Church Rotas AllStars for ages 7-12 fort- of Veryan & Ruan nightly in Veryan School 5- Veryan Lanihorne 6.30 pm [contact school for Thursday 1 & Friday 2 August READINGS AND READERS details] Veryan Players at Portscatho Church Services Services in August Brownies meet Mondays in [page 11] VERYAN term time, Veryan Parish Hall Friday 2 August Car treasure Sunday 4 August Trinity 10 Parish Church of 6.15-7.30pm hunt [page 12] Hosea 11, 1-11 St Symphorian Country Market every Friday Christine Edwards [727] in Veryan Parish Hall Tuesday 7 August Veryan WI 2 Colossians 3, 1-11 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 5th Sundays: 10.30-11..30 am In parish hall., 7 pm [page 4] Sue Truscott [609] 11 am Parish Eucharist 4th Sunday 8.30 am Parish Council meets on third Saturday 10 August ‘Treasure Sunday 11 August Trinity 11 Holy Communion [BCP] Monday, 7.30 pm, Island’ at Caerhays Castle [page 5] Isaiah 1, 1 & 10-20 4th Sunday: 11 am Veryan Parish Hall Liz Wright [628] Mattins [BCP] unless Eucharist committee room Monday 12 August Nare head Hebrews 11, 1-3, 8-16 for special feasts Pre-school: at Sports and bunker open [page 11] Luke Dunstone [713] Social club, Veryan, Mondays PORTLOE UNITED 11.15am-3 pm, Tuesday, Wednesday 14 August tennis club Sunday 18 August Trinity 12 CHURCH Wednesday, Thursday 9.15am- barn dance [page 12] Isaiah 5, 1-7 All Saints 1.15 pm Blair Jobson [530288] Ringing Practice at Veryan : Saturday 17 August WI craft Hebrews 11,29 to 12, 2 Methodist services 1st, 3rd & 5th Sundays at 10.30 am 4th Tuesday most months, but day, parish hall [page 12] Julia Pound [741] contact 501203 for up-to-date 2nd Sunday: Service of the Word [Anglican] at 10.30 am information Sunday 25 August Ruan church Sunday 25 August Trinity 13 4th Sunday: Eucharist patronal evensong [page 14] MATTINS - readings Roseland magazine delivery at 9.30 am will be provided arranged by local coordinator Sunday 25 August coach trip to 2 Samuel 24, 1-2, 10-25 Roseland Youth Group meets Dartmouth [page 11] John Veness [704] RUAN LANIHORNE in Social Club Tuesdays Galatians 3,23 to 4,7 St Rumon 7-9.30 pm for ages 10-14 Wednesday 28 August cream teas Marilyn Veness at Conifers for Portloe church 1st Sunday: School open assembly : 9.30 am Holy Communion [BCP] [page 12] Sunday 1 September Trinity 14 Fridays at 9.15 am in church Jeremiah 2, 4-13 3rd Sunday: 9.30 am Mattins [BCP] Whist drive : every Friday, Saturday 31 August cream teas, Ann Craven [731] Veryan Parish Hall 7.30 pm Ruan [page 14] Hebrews 13, 1-8 & 15,16 Margery Truscott [302] Yoga: every Tuesday CHANGES TO THE USUAL Veryan Parish Hall TIMES, Every Friday 10.am-12 noon FESTIVALS AND SPECIAL 10.30-11.30 am Please exchange with someone if SERVICES WILL BE ZUMBA class: Wednesdays, VERYAN MARKET you can’t read on the day ANNOUNCED IN THIS Veryan Parish Hall 7.30 pm parish hall allocated. MAGAZINE [07739 468142] If you’re not on the reading list but would like to be, contact Christine [501727] CREAM TEAS AT PORTLOE From the Registers Tuesdays from April onwards at 3 pm Veryan Flowers and Brass High Altar Funeral service at Ruan Lanihorne CRICKET FIXTURES - 3 Aug Mrs H Robins See page 11 10 & 17 Aug Mrs B Carter followed by private cremation 24 & 31 Aug Mrs J Elliott Wednesday 17 July Font or porch AND DON’T FORGET 3 Aug Mrs M Veness VERYAN AUTUMN SHOW 10 & 17 Aug Mrs H Betty CLAUDIA CRICHLEY 24 & 31 Aug Mrs E Reece SATURDAY 7 SEPTEMBER BRASS - vacancy Aged 88 Ruan Lanihorne R I P CLEANING & FLOWERS Veryan parish website www.veryan.org 4 Aug: Mrs Abrams/Mrs Wasley All local news and information 18 Aug: Mrs Evans/Mrs Farr ‘Parish News’ is printed by ‘Quay Side Print’ of Truro and distributed by volunteers in 1 Sept: Mrs Mihalop/ our two parishes.. welcome: contact is Toby Mrs Hamblett Copyright in layout and design is owned by Veryan PCC. The copyright in articles submit- Robinson at the shop ted for publication remains with the authors whose permission should be sought through the editors if reproduction in any medium is contemplated. If no author is attributed the editors may not be able to reproduce items as it may not be DEADLINE FOR Portloe United Church possible to establish the copyright status. SEPTEMBER MAGAZINE FLOWERS AND CLEANING Articles which have appeared in print elsewhere must have authors’ names attached and copyright clearance. see notice board 14 AUGUST August 2013 page 16