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Rural Ainsty Parish November 2018 News

St Helen’s, Bilton-in-Ainsty St John the Baptist, Healaugh St John the Baptist, Hessay All Saints, Moor Monkton All Saints, Wighill

Readings and Psalms for November Year B These are the readings taken from the Church Lectionary and are suggested as read on the following Sundays. They may be changed depending on the theme of the service.

Sunday 4th November Ruth 1:1-18 and Psalm 146 • Deuteronomy 6:1-9 and Psalm 119:1-8 • Hebrews 9:11-14 • Mark 12:28-34

Sunday 11th November Ruth 3:1-5; 4:13-17 and Psalm 127 • 1 Kings 17:8-16 and Psalm 146 • Hebrews 9:24-28 • Mark 12:38-44

Sunday 18th November 1 Samuel 1:4-20 and 1 Samuel 2:1-10 • Daniel 12:1-3 and Psalm 16 • Hebrews 10:11-14, (15-18), 19-25 • Mark 13:1-8

Sunday 25th November 2 Samuel 23:1-7 and Psalm 132:1-12, (13-18) • Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14 and Psalm 93 • Revelation 1:4b-8 • John 18:33-37

Contents Parish Letter 3 Communion at home 4 Prayer Requests 5 Rural Ainsty Tots Groups 6 What’s on in the Parish 7 Revd David Watts 8 Supporting the Bishops Mission Order 9 News from Healaugh and Catterton 10 News from Moor Monkton and Hessay 13 News from Wighill 15 News from Bilton-in-Ainsty with Bickerton 18 Memorial Services 21 Marston Moor Probus 22 Battle’s Over- Ring for Peace 23 Men’s Group 25 Stir Up Sunday 26 Church Explorers 30 St Mary’s Primary School Report 31 Film review of ‘They Came to a City’ 32 Long Marston Countrywomen’s Association 33 Classifieds 34 Parish of Rural Ainsty Services for October 43 2

Parish Letter Dear Friends,

November this year marks one hundred years since the end of the First World War. I wonder if like me you have come across the newly reworked film footage, They Shall Not Grow Old, by WingNut Films. It is fascinating and very moving. Peter Jackson, director of Lord of The Rings, has used modern production techniques to add colour, sound and speech to original WW1 film footage. The short film helps to bring the black and white images into our modern day, multi coloured, video-moving world, that so many of us carry on our mobile phones. The film helps us to reconnect with a century ago in a powerful and immediate way.

The act of remembering undoubtedly reconnects our lives with the experiences of those gone before, as we pause and reflect. There is something quite special in standing silently together for 2 minutes …

Some will use the time to think upon and give thanks for the sacrifices made by so many in past wars. Others will use the time to reflect on our lives now and to be thankful for our freedom, justice and peace. Still others will pray: asking God for his guidance and wisdom in navigating local and international relations. Maybe holding silence will allow us to do all of three things: remember the past, give thanks for the present and ask for discernment regarding the future.

Our Christian faith affirms that because of Jesus we can have life in all of its fullness now and after death. On November 11th churches in our Parish will be joining in a national bell ringing commemoration called Ringing out for Peace! Listen out for the sound of celebration of life and love and peace.

Weekly worship helps us to remember Jesus’ life, death and resurrection - his living today. We give thanks for the truth that God knows us individually, as poignantly illustrated by the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Westminster Abbey. Ultimately our hope in Christ gives us space to grieve but saves us from despair:

‘In Christ all will be made alive’ 1 Corinthians 15:22

The Parish of Rural Ainsty has two Remembrance Day services at St Helen’s Church, Bilton in Ainsty and St John the Baptist Church, Healaugh. Both services will start at 10.50am. Let us join together to remember.

Yours, Rev Lucy

Communion at Home The 'Communion' we share in Church on a Sunday morning, is a visible symbol of the Community of God, that we are in, by sharing the bread and wine and remembering the sacrifice of Jesus. When we take Communion in Church on a Sunday we are, amongst other things, affirming our Community. I know that for many reasons some people are not able to come to Church on a Sunday. This doesn't mean that Communion cannot be received at another time through the week. Our Community is not wholly defined by who is at Church on a Sunday morning. Church can come to you! If you wish to receive Home Communion on a regular basis (or as a one off) you are more than welcome to do so. Myself, Charlotte Bromet, Kath McBride or Rev Lucy Brencher will happily visit. Please don't think that it is too much trouble to ask, this is certainly not the case. All you need to do to start receiving Home Communion is to contact me or one of the Churchwardens and we can visit, by arrangement, to suit you. It is also a pleasure to sit and chat for a while, after Communion is shared. Also, if you know someone who you think will benefit from Home Communion please let us know. Richard

Prayer Requests There are times when we feel we, or someone we know would benefit from prayers said specifically for them. This can bring great comfort. If you would like a prayer said for you or someone you know please get in touch with Richard, Lucy, Kath or one of the Churchwardens who will be able to help you. Similarly if you would like yourself, or people to be specifically prayed for in our services please also ask, ensuring that the person for whom prayers will be said is comfortable with the happening.

Rural Ainsty Tots Groups

Our tots’ groups are great times for young children and their carers to meet and get to know others in the local area. Everyone is welcome – the children range from birth to pre-school age, often with their Mums, but Dads and Grandparents also come along. Each of our groups is in a warm, safe environment with a range of toys to suit different ages and with toilet and baby change facilities.

Sessions usually begin with free play for the children and chatting for the adults over a cuppa, then snack time, some singing together and a story. Sometimes there may be outside play, ball pools or the bouncy castle, and occasionally a day out to the seaside or Lotherton Hall. There’s no need to book a space, or to come for the entire session – you’re welcome to pop in at any time to meet us and see what we do.

And for those with free time on a morning and no tiny children, we’d love your help! Moor Monkton currently has a rota for making refreshments and washing up, with the added benefit of meeting the toddlers and Mums, and we’d like to extend this to our other groups wherever possible. If you think you could help, please have a chat with either Kath or Richard

Tuesday 9.30-11.30 Hessay Tots: Hessay Methodist Chapel

Thursday 10-11.30 The Old Schoolroom, Moor Monkton

‘Tots Time’ returns to a new Venue. The Vicarage, Healaugh Wednesdays 10.00am-11.30am

What’s on in the Parish in November

Wednesday 7th November 12.15pm Community Lunch, Wighill

Thursday 15th November 11.00am - 1.00pm Community Coffee Morning, in the annexe to Tanfield House Saturday 17th November 10.00am - 1.00pm Coffee Morning, Moor Monkton

Saturday 17th November 10.30am - 12.00pm Community Café, Healaugh Memorial Hall Friday 23rd November 10.30am - 12.00pm Community Café, Moor Monkton

Saturday 24th November 10.30am - 12.00pm Community Coffee Morning, Bilton-in-Ainsty

Sunday 25th November 7.30pm Pub Quiz, White Swan Wighill

Space Youth Group is for those over the age of 14, school year 10, meeting on Mondays in term time from 7pm -9pm at the Hayloft, Healaugh. RAYC (Rural Ainsty Youth Club) is back and will be meeting on the following dates between from 4.30pm to 6pm at the Hayloft, Old Hall, Healaugh. 11/11/18; 25/11/18 & 9/12/18 Tots Groups Tuesday 9.30am-11.30am Hessay Tots: Hessay Methodist Chapel Thursday 10.00am-11.30am The Old Schoolroom, Moor Monkton ‘Tots Time’ returns to a new Venue. The Vicarage, Healaugh Wednesdays 10.00am-11.30am For more details on any of the above activities please email [email protected] or call Rev Richard

Revd David Watts Revd David Watts was Vicar at Healaugh, Wighill, Bilbrough and Askham Richard many years ago, approximately 30. After a prolonged stay in hospital Revd David Watts has moved to Hampden House Nursing Home, 120 Duchy Road, Harrogate. HG1 2HE

His family say, ‘He is generally in good spirits and welcomes any, and all news from old friends and colleagues.' Visitors would be welcome, but it may be advisable to telephone first to check on the day.

Supporting the Bishops Mission Order

We have a unique situation in our Parish with a full-time vicar and a curate and a trainee vicar on placement affording us the most wonderful input and resources to build our worshiping community and care for us pastorally. This is made possible by the generosity of those who like to give specifically for this purpose, the PCCs and the backing of the Diocese of York. If you personally would like to support the work of the BMO in the parish of Rural Ainsty you can set up a standing order or give a one-off donation to

York Diocesan Board of Finance · Bank: Barclays Bank plc · Sort Code: 20-99-56 · Account Number: 30985759

As the donations are restricted to supporting Richard’s ministry, it is really important that they are clearly referenced as such – so all donors should use the reference RURAL AINSTY 603031 when making a transfer.

News from Healaugh and Catterton My parents Simon and Mary Crawley moved to Healaugh in 2002 to be nearer my sister Juliet after she had been through her second bout of cancer. My father had rung me a year earlier from Devon where they had retired and said ‘I think we need to move to Yorkshire will you look out for a house for us’. When he asked me again a year later the old Vicarage next door to us was empty and they moved in. As a retired clergyman there was plenty for him to do and he soon had a busy ministry around the parish and further afield while my mother, to quote a member of the village, took on the role of a traditional vicar’s wife, visiting, sharing eggs from her hens, and generally caring for people in the community.

Within a couple of years my sister’s health deteriorated again and this time the focus was on praying for her healing and though she eventually died peacefully in January 2007 the months of persistent intercession brought us all closer and had a significant impact on our family life.

Prayer has always been the main focus of my father’s ministry and it was in the retelling of the stories of God at work which he compiled in a little book called Though It Tarry, that he recovered from the nervous breakdown that he had suffered in the middle of Juliet’s illness when she was in remission. He had poured his heart and soul into sustaining her and that took its toll, but as he recovered we began a new initiative to pray daily for the people of the village, that all would come to know the goodness and love of God. We had been given a little book called The Grace Outpouring and that inspired us to meet in the church each day for fifteen minutes to pray together. It was a life sustaining practice. Over the years I have seen my father speak life into the future and at a particularly low point in village life he had declared ‘Keep the roof on the church and don’t give up hope for new life is coming and there is a time when the church will be full again’. His words of faith gave us the incentive to persist in dark days.

Out of the daily prayer came fresh worship initiatives such as Bell Book and Candle where my mother faithfully produced attendance stars for young children and greeted them at the door of the church, while my father played his banjo until his hands would no longer work as he wanted, due to the progression of the Parkinson’s disease.

They took great pleasure in enjoying village life and it was hugely sad to them in their latter years to be confined to the sitting room in the Blacksmiths Cottage after they

10 had ‘downsized’ chiefly because of my father’s increasing blindness. From the sitting room they could not see everyone walking up and down the village as the hedge was too high!

My mother once said to me that they had been happier in Healaugh than any other place that they had lived, while our youngest Tryphaena remarked on being told that Jesus said we should love our neighbours, that it was easy for her as ‘my neighbour is Granny.’

Some months ago, when Daddy was in hospital he said to my younger brother that he needed to move parish. Silas replied, “No Dad, we need to get you home. You are in hospital’. In retrospect we feel that deep within his spirit he was sensing the call to move south and go to a new parish - to be with Silas where he and his wife Annie have just embarked upon a new adventure of a prayer community based at their house having handed on the church of which they had been pastors for fifteen years. As they move to live with Silas and Annie I sense that my father will be the prayer covering while they step out living by faith ministering to the whole of Bristol under the project One Church One Day enabling 24/7/365 prayer for the city, and to prisoners and ex-offenders. Sometime ago when Daddy was really struggling physically I asked him what he thought about his quality of life. He replied quick as a flash that he did not mind as long as he could pray. Though his flesh may be weak, his motivation and vision are as strong as ever and he is off for his new venture - his final parish. We will all miss them, but we have been richer for having had them with us for the longest time that they have lived anywhere. Priscilla Smith

North, South, East and West, Which parish was the best? We have lived and worked in Carlisle, Cinderford in the Forest of Dean, Margate, Folkestone, Patterdale, Culworth in Northamptonshire and everywhere we have made friendships which we value because they are rooted in God’s love. The gospel brings eternal life and we have become part of one another. Thank you. May God bless you all. Simon and Mary Crawley

The Lord bless you and keep you; The Lord make His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you; The Lord lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace Numbers 6: 24-26 11

November Rotas November 4th Sidesman Anne Umpleby Readers Jon Brookman and Rachel Brammar Coffee Lindy Walker

November 11th Lunch in the Memorial Hall

Sunday 18th Sidesman Lindy Walker Reader Oliver Smith Coffee Ginny Lawson-Tancred Intercessor Priscilla Smith

Sunday 25th Sidesman Brookman family Coffee Priscilla Smith W/B Flowers and Key Grass Cleaning Brasses 5th Priscilla Smith Jon & Lisa months during colder the cutting NoGrass Jim & Melanie Brookman Bryce 12th Alan & Christine Barber 19th Christine Rob & Donna Carol Walmsley Barber Taylor & Tanith Hornsby 26th Haigh Family

For Services see Parish of Rural Ainsty Services for November

News from Moor Monkton and Hessay

LEP Coffee Morning

Saturday 10 November 2018 10.00am – 11.45am Hessay Chapel

Cake Stall Produce and Preserves Bric a brac Books Crafts

All Welcome

The LEP Coffee Morning is held on the second Saturday of every month for the benefit of the three churches in the Hessay and Moor Monkton LEP. Thank you to everyone who supports this event. The coffee morning in October raised £192 to support the work of the Church within the community.

Open Afternoon – Wednesday 28 November from 2pm to 4pm at 56 Longridge Lane Upper Poppleton the home of Joyce Woods with tea and good conversation. All welcome.

Date Place Cleaning/Flowers Sidesman November 2018 4 November Hessay Methodist K Wright J Cross 11 November St Johns Hessay D Field/J Weatherhead Z Barratt 18 November All Saints Moor Monkton E Wilson K Wright 25 November All Saints Moor Monkton K Wright M Wilson

Coffee and Cake

Please come along and enjoy coffee and freshly baked cakes/scones on Friday 23rd November from 10-30am – 12 in the Old Schoolroom Moor Monkton. We look forward to seeing you Sunday 1st November at 9-30am Rev Ian Hill will lead worship at Hessay Chapel. Sunday 11th November 7-05pm Bell Ringing at All Saints Church Moor Monkton to mark the Centenary of the end of WW1. Please check notice boards for further information. Sunday 18th November at 9-30am Mrs Gill Mason will lead worship at All Saints Church Moor Monkton.

For Services see Parish of Rural Ainsty Services for November

News from Wighill Sunday 4th November 11.00am All Saints Patronal Festival Holy Communion CW

Sunday 11th November Remembrance Sunday Service of Remembrance at St John’s Church Healaugh Meet at the War Memorial 10.50am

Sunday 18th November 9.30am Family Communion

Sunday 25th November 3.00pm Memorial Service

Flowers: Mrs J Parkin Cleaning: Mrs J Ackroyd

White Swan Wednesdays

White Swan Wednesdays Wednesday 7th November at 12.30 pm Come and try the new menu at The White Swan! It will be on stream by our November meeting. As those who join us know, our monthly get-together has become more and more popular and hopefully still more will come to share the fun, so we have agreed that we will put in our orders in advance. Taking orders from scratch is a time-consuming process with more than about ten diners eating simultaneously. I’ll circulate a new menu with my November invitation, and would be very grateful if you could give me your choice by MONDAY for Wednesday each month (this is to give me time to ring up people who usually come but haven’t let me know this month...).

Thursday 15th November 11am to 1pm Community Coffee Morning In the annexe to Tanfield House, do come along for coffee and good conversation.

Commemoration of the Centenary of the Ending of WW1. The poppies will be on display in the church throughout November, thanks again to everyone who knitted poppies to enable our display. We have over 400 poppies contributed from a wide variety of people including Brenda, Anthea Tait’s sister, who sent some over from Canada! If you are not able to attend one of our services but would like to see the poppies please ring Janice 530652 or Marian 07762074552 to arrange a mutually convenient time to visit. Ringing for Peace There is a national initiative to get 1000 churches ringing their bells simultaneously, at 7.05pm, on 11th November 2018, to mark the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day. Our team of bell-ringers are rising to the challenge, not sure for how long we will manage to ring, but we will do our best!

Annual Bonfire and BBQ We are holding this popular event on Saturday 3rd November. Please see next page for details.

For Services see Parish of Rural Ainsty Services for November

BONFIRE AND BARBEQUE At Wighill Grange By kind permission of Mr and Mrs Parkin

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 3rd At 6.30pm Admission to the Bonfire & BBQ Adults £5; Children £2.00 (Pre-school age free)

Tickets obtainable from Marian 07762074552 or at the venue PLEASE DO NOT BRING FIREWORKS TO THE EVENT, INCLUDING SPARKLERS. (To comply with Insurance requirements) Contributions towards the cost of the display, very welcome These can be left with Marian at Heronwood, Wighill All Proceeds in aid of All Saints Church Wighill Raffle in aid of Church Urban Fund

News from Bilton-in-Ainsty with Bickerton

The works to restore the glass at St Helen’s is currently being carried out. A great deal of hard work has been put into the project and we would like to thank Susie for all of her efforts. It is greatly appreciated.

For Services see Parish of Rural Ainsty Services for November

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Memorial Services

On two dates in November services will be taking place for people living with loss and sadness at Christmas.

All Saints, Moor Monkton - Sunday 18th November 2018 at 3 p.m. All Saints, Wighill – Sunday 25th November 2018 at 3 p.m.

For those who may find Christmas a difficult time to get through. The service will give an opportunity to remember with gratitude and to look forward with hope.

There will be a short talk, some familiar hymns, prayer and lighting of candles, as an act of remembrance for those who have lost a loved one.

Light refreshments will be served after the Service.

Marston Moor Probus Club

At their meeting on Tuesday 25th September 2018 Mr David Bayne introduced Dr Susan Major to give her talk entitled “Early Victorian Railway Excursions” or ‘How working class leisure was transformed in the mid nineteenth century’. Dr Major started her research on this topic in 2006, received her PhD in 2012 and now has a book published with the same title as her talk. Her research was helped by the diaries of George Wheelwright who lived in the York area and he described many of the excursions of the period from the late 1830s to 1900. These excursions were offered at much reduced rates to the working classes for trips to a range of destinations such as the coast, scenic areas, York, and many others including London. The trips were usually held on Sundays or other special days and were separate from the normal rail services. These trips attracted very large numbers of people to travel and large crowds congregated at railway stations, not always well controlled. The trains were often quite long, up to 50 or more carriages, many of which were open or even “tubs” normally used to carry goods &/or livestock. It is estimated that 6 million people visited the Great Exhibition in London in 1851and many of them by train. The talk was illustrated with pictures of the time and with many more details. After questions Dr Major was thanked for her interesting talk. At the November meeting Sarah Maltby will talk about the work on the Jorvik Viking Centre after the 2016 floods. This will also be the last chance to pay for the Christmas Lunch. The Club normally meets on the morning of the last Tuesday of the month in Long Marston Village Hall, which has a good car park. New members and guests are welcome, contact the Secretary, Mr Bob Ellis on 01423 358 393.

A number of people across the villages have said it would be good if we could form a men's group. A time to meet those you know and those you may not, have time together, maybe share aspects about our faith and invite a guest speaker from time to time. I am of an open mind about how frequently we meet in the future but just thought if we met for the first time before Christmas and see where we go from there. I thought the best way to kick this off was to invite you all to a curry night at … The Hayloft (aka ‘Balti Towers’), Healaugh, Old Hall on 23/11/18 at 7.30pm. I'm happy to provide the food, although if any of you have a good 'signature' curry dish that you would like to bring along please let me know. I will make sure we have a milder dish for those who don't like the heat! As with all good curry houses this will be a BYO beverage night, so whether you prefer a splosh of beer or wine, or whatever, with a curry I will leave this up to you. For those of you driving from other villages I will suggest car sharing arrangements. Please let me know if you would like to come along and whether you have any dietary requirements.

Revd Richard

Stir up Sunday The last Sunday of the Church Year, the Sunday before Advent, is often called 'Stir-up Sunday'. (Advent begins four Sundays before Christmas.)

Christmas Pudding Day

Stir-up Sunday is the traditional day for everyone in the family to take a turn at stirring the Christmas pudding, whilst making a wish.

Before Christmas puddings were sold ready-made in containers, they were always made at home. They were made a month before Christmas day, so the flavours had plenty of time to develop before Christmas.

Lucky Stir and a Wish

On Stir-up Sunday families returned from Church to give the pudding its traditional lucky stir. The pudding mixture was always stirred from East to West in honour of the three Wise Men who visited the baby Jesus. Whilst stirring the pudding mixture, each family member would make a secret wish.

On their way back from church, children were often heard chanting the following rhyme:

Stir up, we beseech thee, the pudding in the pot; And when we get home we'll eat the lot.

These words were an adaptation of what they had heard in church on this day.

Why is it called Stir-up Sunday?

The name 'Stir Up Sunday' comes from the opening words of the collect for the day in the Book of Common Prayer of 1549 and later (The collect is the prayer of the day that “collects” up the themes of the readings during a church service).

The original collect (prayer) has today been adapted into more modern language and is now the Church of England's prayer after communion for Stir Up Sunday:

"Stir-up, we beseech thee, O Lord, the wills of thy faithful people; that they, plenteously bringing forth the fruit of good works, may of thee be plenteously rewarded; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen."

Christmas Pudding Traditions

A Christmas pudding is traditionally made with 13 ingredients to represent Christ and His Disciples.

A proper Christmas pudding is always stirred from East to West in honour of the three Wise Men who visited the baby Jesus.

Every member of the family must give the pudding a stir and make a secret wish.

A coin was traditionally added to the ingredients and cooked in the pudding. It was supposedly to bring wealth to whoever found it on their plate on Christmas Day. The traditional coin was an old silver sixpence or threepenny bit.

Other traditional additions to the pudding included a ring, to foretell a marriage, and a thimble for a lucky life.

The following recipe is one that my family and I have enjoyed for a few years.

Rum and Plum Christmas pudding

Ingredients

200 g (7oz) dried mixed fruit

500 g (1lb 2oz) soft prunes

150 ml (5 fl oz (¼ pint)) dark rum

Butter, to grease

Finely grated zest and juice of 1 unwaxed lemon

100 ml (3 ½ fl oz) apple juice

75 g (3oz) vegetarian suet

75 g (3oz) dark brown sugar

75 g (3oz) plain flour

2 tsp mixed spice

2 tsp ground cinnamon

50 g (2oz) white breadcrumbs

50 g (2oz) mixed nuts, roughly chopped

1 large egg

Method

1. Put dried fruit and 250g (9oz) prunes, halved, into a pan with 4tbsp rum. Gently heat for 3min, then remove from heat and set aside to cool.

2. Lightly grease a 1.2 litre (2¼ pint) pudding basin and line the base with a disc of baking parchment. Put a 38cm (15in) square of baking parchment on top of a square of foil the same size and use butter to grease a circle, about 18cm (7in) wide, in the centre of the baking parchment side. Fold a 5cm (2in) pleat down the centre. Set aside.

3. Put remaining prunes in a food processor with the lemon juice and apple juice and whiz to a chunky paste. Tip into a large mixing bowl. Add dried fruit mixture and remaining ingredients, stirring well. Spoon into the prepared pudding basin, smoothing the surface.

4. Put the foil and parchment square, greased side down, on top of the pudding with the pleat down the middle. Tie a long piece of string around the rim of the bowl, looping remaining string over and under the string around the rim and tie to make a handle. Trim and pleat covering around the rim to avoid moisture getting into the pudding.

5. Place a heatproof saucer in a large, deep pan. Lower in the prepared pudding, then pour in hot water halfway up the side of the bowl. Bring to the boil, cover and simmer for 4½hr, topping up with water if necessary. Remove and cool completely, keeping pudding wrapped and tied.

Recipe written by The Good Housekeeping Cookery Team, November 2014

Film review THEY CAME TO A CITY Stephen Brown welcomes this DVD restoration Ealing Studios’ drama They Came to a City (Cert. U) was released in 1944. It’s a stirring invitation to dream of a new landscape, one more closely resembling paradise than current wartime circumstances may have allowed. Or contemplate a hellish alternative. It’s not just Germany that requires vanquishing but our self-imposed limitations on envisaging a fresh world order. The music accompanying opening credits is from Scriabin’s The Divine Poem, a work which bids listeners’ imaginations to reach out beyond the prosaic. A uniformed young couple argue about whether after the war the world will be any different. One can see immediate parallels with our post-Brexit situation. J.B.Priestley (on whose play the film is based) happens upon them. “Let’s suppose”, he suggests, “we took a little cross-section of our people …and let’s imagine these people suddenly found themselves out of their ordinary surroundings”. This is the cue for transporting nine people to an architecturally exotic city where they contemplate the future. While the baronet believes such a location could only be Walthamstow, a merchant seaman, Joe Dinmore, is reminded of Peru. The rest are simply bewildered by what some regard as supernatural kidnap. Alice has quit her waitress job out of frustration; Malcolm is a sympathetic character, a banker married to someone who clearly is not. Norman Shelley plays the ruthless businessman Cudworth. Mrs Batley is an overworked charlady in contrast to a privileged Lady Loxfield and daughter Philippa Loxfield. Collectively they’re given sight of how such a city would be run. As they return to the entrance not everyone is impressed. Only some characters will experience a change of heart. Priestley yearned for ‘the perfection of urban civilisation’. Working people’s fight isn’t just to defeat an alien oppressor but a domestic one too. This movie seeks to build a different kind of place in England’s green and pleasant land. And like William Blake, the film foresees this New Jerusalem in spiritual as well as political terms. The subtext is undoubtedly that such a place must resemble the City of God.

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LONG MARSTON YORKSHIRE COUNTRYWOMEN'S ASSOCIATION Mavis opened the proceedings on a glorious afternoon in October. Our speaker, Mr Meek, was introduced and opened his talk by requesting we all called him David. David worked at Terrys of York, as did his father and grandfather and he was obviously very proud of the company which was founded in 1767 by Mr Bayldon and Mr Berry. Joseph Terry, who was married to a relative of Mr Berry joined him in the confectionary business in about 1824. David joined the business in 1956 as an apprentice electrician when it was called Terrys of York. He has many fond memories of the family and related one day when he was asked to repair an iron that belonged to Francis Terry. On completion of the job he was requested to take it to the family home. It was snowing when he arrived by bike and he went to the back door. He was invited in and given coffee and, to his delight a scone, fresh from the oven. Lady Terry asked to see him and gave him £1. When he was leaving he met Sir Francis Terry who also gave him £1. David explained he couldn't take it because he had already been 'paid' but was told, that £1 is from Lady Terry, this one is from me! David was an entertaining speaker who has a great knowledge of the Terry family and the business and he was warmly thanked for a very entertaining talk. Our next meeting will be held on Wednesday, 14th November at 2.00pm in the Village Hall when we will welcome Bridgett Morris with her talk ' The Rowntree Family of York'. David told us there was absolutely no rivalry between Terrys and Rowntrees, let's see if it’s true! If you would like to come along and join us, please contact Sue Lewis on 01904 738 658 for more details or just come along at 2.00pm.

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Moor Monkton’s own Pop up Pub ‘The Merry Monk’ is open for business on the last Friday of each month in the Old Schoolroom.

Doors open at 7pm, there is draft beer from The Yorkshire Heart Brewery on tap, fine wines, lagers, soft drinks, snacks and a fish and chip supper. Or simply bring your own favourite tipple if you prefer. Usual pub games to amuse and entertain and any profits go to village charities.

Why not come along and catch up with the neighbours you hardly ever see? E-mail [email protected] or look on www.moormonkton.com for more details.

Parish of Rural Ainsty Priest: The Revd Richard Battersby The Vicarage, Main Street, Healaugh LS24 8DB Tel: 01937 830933 Email: [email protected] Richard is always easily contactable but does usually try to keep each Monday as his day off, so please bear that in mind. Curate: The Revd Lucy Brencher 07940 514492 Email: [email protected] Ordinand: Mrs Kath McBride 07977 169136 Email: [email protected] Reader: Mrs Charlotte Bromet 01937 833243 Methodist Minister Moor Monkton and Hessay The Revd Ian Hill. 98 Main Street, Upper Poppleton Tel: 01904 788033

Church Wardens Bilton in Ainsty with Bickerton Mr John Pick 01423 358681 Healaugh Mrs Priscilla Smith 01937 833248 Mr Jon Brookman 07884 232935 Moor Monkton and Hessay Mrs Kathryn Wright 01904 738498 Wighill Mrs Charlotte Bromet 01937 833243 Mrs Janice Quinn 01937 530652

Parish Administrator Lisa Brookman 07979505067 [email protected] Rural Ainsty Parish News Please keep your contributions coming in! The deadline for items to be included in the November issue is Monday 15th October. Please email to [email protected] Handwritten items can also be accepted, please ring Lisa Brookman, on 07979 505067. 3 Abbey Lane, Healaugh. LS24 8DF For advertising in the magazine, please contact Lisa as above

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