WOW! W H A T ’ S O N I N W O O D F O R D ISSUE 150 July/Aug 2016 www.Woodford-Halse-VillageSignpost.co.uk twitter@woodfordVSP A Railway Memorabilia Walk July Events Short Mat Bowls Club This walk gives you a chance to see some of the remnants of the Meet each Monday (2-4pm) and Wednesday (7.30-9pm) in days when was a major railway centre. the Dryden Hall. Contact Alan Williams for more information (Tel. 261824). The walk starts at “The Old Station Store” on Station Road (A). Here you can 5th Woodford and Hinton WI buy the late Jim Anscomb’s book “Woodford-cum-Membris and the Great On Tuesday 5 July we will be having a Bowls Evening. For details contact Diane Kenny on 01327 262454. Visitors Central Railway” (£6.50). always welcome. In this description of the walk I have given page references so that you can compare the 6th Woodford Halse Garden Club present with the heyday of the railway. On Wednesday 6 July we will be visiting Cramden Nurseries, If you look down Station Road, towards Hinton, where the old railway bridge crosses the Kingsthorpe. For details contact Coral Snow on 07486 road is where the station was. You can still see the blocked-up doorway behind which steps 388396. Pre-booking essential. Visitors £2.00. led up to the platforms. 10th Charity Cream Teas Come along and enjoy a cream tea or slice of cake in our Walk down Cherwell Terrace, past the rows of railway terraces. At the bottom of the garden at 12 Farndon Road, in aid of the Thrive Garden hill you can see how the was diverted and made to pass under the large Charity, which uses gardening to change the lives of embankment in two large culverts (B). The embankment, now wooded (C), once housed disabled people. the main line and ten sidings (P.35). 12th Parish Council Meeting 7.00 pm in the Memorial Hall. Turn right along the track behind the terraced houses. The four newer houses a few yards along mark the site of “the barracks” (D), the overnight hostel and canteen for the railway workers (P.44). The hostel burnt down in 1957 (P.46). August Events Cross the Cherwell by the wooden bridge and you are now on the Cinder Path (E), the route Short Mat Bowls Club used by the railway workers to get to the loco sheds and maintenance depot. Follow the Meet each Monday (2-4pm) and Wednesday (7.30-9pm) in path to the Byfield Road. Look back towards the terraced streets and compare with the the Dryden Hall. Contact Alan Williams for more information photo on page 52 (F). (Tel. 261824). The opposite side of Byfield Road is now the Great Central Industrial Estate, where the 1st Woodford Halse Garden Club embankment has been removed. Look left towards the bus stop where the Byfield Road On Monday 1 August we will be holding a supper evening 7.00-9.00 pm at the home and garden of Rebecca and Paul Bridge once took the line northwards (G). On the embankment were wagon repair shops Hymers. Raffle and tombola. Pre-booking essential. Visitors and extensive sidings, loco sheds, offices and works (Pages 35 & 57). £2.00. Turn right, crossing the road, till you reach the red dog-litter bin, then turn left past the bin Woodford and Hinton WI up onto the village playing fields. The industrial units on the left give some indication of No meeting, but we are planning a trip to Beckworth the extent of the former works. Continue Emporium ( to be confirmed). For details contact Diane on, past a second dog bin and onto the Kenny on 01327 262454. Visitors always welcome. grass, and walk straight ahead. Newer industrial units have recently been erected on the former railway lands. The Royal acknowledgement fencing on the left has the remnants of the railway’s border (H). Continue on to for WI member the end of the playing fields (I). Page 60 has a photo taken from the other side of On 24 March 2016, the lines looking towards where you are Joan Rednall, a long now standing. Most of this land is now standing member of the agricultural and nothing remains of the Woodford & Hinton WI, former railway. and her husband Brian celebrated 60 years of If you wish, you can cross to the top right- marriage. hand corner of the playing fields (J) and follow the public footpath over three fields Joan and Brian to where you can see the water tower, received a card of the only relic of the railway buildings still congratulations, standing. Otherwise, retrace your steps to signed by Her Majesty the village. the Queen and Joan brought it to our recent Visit: meeting for us all to see. WWW.WOODFORDHALSEARCHIVE.ORG to see more railway photographs in File10 Everyone admired the card and congratulated of the Village Archive website. Joe Pitt, Joan and Brian on this wonderful Footpath Warden, May 2016 Map data achievement and agreed that the framed card copyright: http://www.openstreetmap. is a beautiful memento of the occasion. org/copyright Diane Kenny Gardening NOW OPEN! LOCAL - CONVENIENT - AFFORDABLE Club Contact: Mark Vincent 07563 505669 hosted - or call in for membership details Located in at Popsons Pharmacy Basement Cropredy Woodford Garage Great Central Way, Woodford Halse Tel: 01327 260088 Your local garage for - SERVICING • ENGINE DIAGNOSTICS • AUTO ELECTRICS BRAKES • EXHAUSTS • BATTERIES • CLUTCHES • TIMING BELTS WELDING • AIR-CON RE-GAS • BRAKEDOWN RECOVERY Courtesy Car by arrangement Brave members of the Woodford Gardening Club took on the inclement weather on 15th June to visit gardens belonging to members of Cropredy Gardening Club. Despite the fact that the weather had taken its toll on some Tim Williams of the plants, we were delighted to be able to visit 5 beautiful MEMBER Specialist Advisor in Inheritance Matters gardens – all totally different. Some were small and compact and • Can’t be bothered to make a Will? • Don’t need to make a Will? others had sweeping lawns with majestic borders – but everyone • Won’t all my assets pass to my partner or my spouse automatically anyway? agreed that they were all lovely. We then joined our hosts in the • Don’t care if the Government gets 40% Inheritance Tax on my death? • Don’t care if the Government gets all my assets on my death? chapel for tea and cakes – a welcome respite from the cold and • Don’t care if the family home is sold to pay for long-term care on my death? damp evening. ARE YOU SURE? Contact me on 01327 261262 Paul Hymers thanked Cropredy for hosting and opening their Safeguard your family’s interests. to make an appointment gardens to us and we look forward to hosting them in Woodford Get peace of mind - make a Will! www.planningawill.co.uk Halse next year! Diane Kenny Ruth Curzon 1st Woodford Halse Residential Letting Agency Brownies & Guides LANDLORDS & TENANTS WANTED Kelly Dicks and Sarah Bytyci took over as leaders of the Brownies We are an independent Letting Agent and and Guides back at Easter. They are planning an end-of-term Property Management Company. trip to Twycross Zoo. Here they are, on an earlier trip to We cover all popular areas of Country Park. Kelly can be contacted on 07854 854374 for more Daventry and surrounding villages. information. We act with integrity to build long term relationships.

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OPENING TIMES Mon - Fri 8.30am - 6pm Sat 9am - 1pm SERVICING • REPAIRS • WELDING TYRES • MOT PREPARATION Tel: 01327 262238 07972 273458 Email: [email protected] Charity Cream Tea Church Diaries & News Church Services for the Benefice of Aston-le-Walls, Boddington, Byfield, at 12 Farndon Road and Woodford Halse, with those of Hinton Methodist Church and Sacred Heart RC in Aston-le-Walls (Mass at 10.45 every Sunday) Sunday 10th July 2.30-5pm Woodford Halse Garden Club invite you to our Charity July Services Cream Teas in the garden at 12 Farndon 2nd 10.00am–12.00pm Woodford Churches Together - Tea & Coffee Road, in aid of the Thrive Garden Charity, Morning at Hinton Methodist Church which uses gardening to change the lives 3rd 8.30am BCP at Byfield of disabled people. £3 to enjoy a cream 9.30am Parish Communion at ASTON-LE-WALLS 10.30am Hinton Methodists at Circuit Service at Cropredy Chapel tea or cake and there’s plenty to see in the 11.00am Communion at St Mary’s Woodford Halse garden, including herbaceous borders, the 4.00pm Thanksgiving for Animals at EYDON vegetable garden and chickens. All ages 6.00pm Evening Prayer at BODDINGTON welcome. 10th 9.00am BCP Communion at EYDON 9.30am Holy Communion at BODDINGTON 10.00am Café Church at St Mary’s Woodford Halse Summer Reading Challenge 10.30am Service at Hinton Methodist Church The Summer Reading Challenge encourages children 11.00am Sung Communion at BYFIELD aged 4 to 11 to read six books during the long 17th 8.30am BCP Communion at ASTON-LE-WALLS summer holiday. 9.00am Parish Communion at EYDON 9.30am Communion at BODDINGTON There is a different theme each year. Children can read whatever 10.30am Hinton Methodists at they like - fact books, joke books, picture books, audio books - just Methodist Chapel as long as they are borrowed from the library. 11.00am Family Service at BYFIELD Children receive special rewards each time they finish a book and 11.00am Communion at St Mary’s Woodford Halse. there’s a certificate for everyone who completes the Challenge. 24th 10.00am Benefice Communion Service at EYDON The Summer Reading Challenge is open to all primary school 10.30am Service at Hinton Methodist Church 31st 10.30am Service at Hinton Methodist Church aged children and is designed for all reading abilities. Schools 6.00pm Communion with prayers for healing at BYFIELD work with local libraries and give out information to encourage children to take part, and most libraries run Summer Reading August Services Challenge linked early years activity for pre-schoolers. 6th 10.00am–12.00pm Woodford Churches Together - Tea & Coffee The theme for the 2016 Summer Reading Challenge is The Big Morning at Hinton Methodist Church Friendly Read. 7th 8.30am BCP Communion at BYFIELD The Challenge will launch on Saturday 16 July. 10.30am Service at Hinton Methodist Church with Communion 10.30am Parish Communion at ASTON -LE-WALLS Please contact your Woodford Halse Library for further 14th 10.30am Service at Hinton Methodist Church details. 21st 10.30am Hinton Methodists at Upper Boddington Methodist Chapel 28th 10.30am Service at Hinton Methodist Church September Services 3rd 10.00am–12.00pm Woodford Churches Together - Tea & Coffee Morning at Hinton Methodist Church 4th 10.30am Service at Hinton Methodist Church 11th 10.30am Service at Hinton Methodist Church DON’T FORGET TO DROP IN AT St MARY’S for COFFEE and CHAT every Thursday morning from 9.15am to 11.30am. All are welcome, meet old friends and make new. This is not a service and there is no hidden On Saturday 23rd July agenda. we are holding a belated Tea Party We will be taking a break during the school’s summer vacation. in recognition of the Queens 90th Birthday. St Mary’s church is open during daylight hours for private prayer or a This will be held at Hinton Methodist time of quiet reflection. Church from 3pm to 5pm as part of our Hinton Methodist Church: Please note that we have a website with Churches Together Initiative more of our activities on - www.banburycircuit.org.uk/hinton.html Cost £5 for tea and scones/cakes and £1 for children. For Christenings, Dedications, Marriages or Funerals or require a home or hospital visit, please ring Rev Lin Francis on 01295 262602 or Hazel Stagg, Methodist Circuit Pastoral Co-ordinator on 01295 660294. Woodford Churches Together Tea & Coffee Morning St Mary’s Church: Should you require transport to a service not at at Hinton Methodist Church, Woodford Halse Woodford Halse, please contact one of the Church Wardens. To arrange Saturdays 2nd July, 6th August and 3rd September Christenings, Marriages, Funerals or for any church matters please contact: Rev. Stevie Cross at The Rectory, Byfield 01327 260204. All welcome including family, friends and Roman Catholic Church: Fr. James Evans, in Residence at:- neighbours - and have a free cup of Tea/Coffee The Presbytery, Main Street, Aston-le-Walls. Tel: 01295 660592 with cake at Hinton Methodist Church. email: [email protected] Web: www.sacredheart.btck.co.uk You can also buy gifts to support the chosen charity. For availability of weekday Mass & other services - please check our website. LOCAL ORGANISATIONS AND IS YOUR COMPUTER FAILING YOU? Need an IT solution at a keen price, with no compromise on a quality service? USEFUL CONTACT NUMBERS Acupuncture & Shiatsu Wendy Francis 260340 Litter Kit Marie Woollacott 261837 Specialist in PC repairs • Computer problems (Linux or Windows) • Upgrades ------email: [email protected] Memorial Centre Hire Donna Wise (Clerk) 07736 227208 Home Networking • Standard Maintenance (Cleaning) etc • Virus removal www.kiconnections.com [email protected] Personal Tuition. Contact me for service exceeding your expectations. 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Churchwardens Maureen Fox 264465 PCSO Carl Barton Mobile: 07557 778004 MMCA GCC reg Susan Jackson 260220 email: [email protected]) Should you require transport to a service not at Woodford PSCO Jane Coaley, PC Dave Horner please contact one of the Church Wardens. ------01327 261011 or 07717 847720 ------Popsons Pharmacy 260393 Chiropodist Gary Denby 260899 ------Pothole Hotline The Street Doctor 0300 126 1000 Podiatrist www.footwisepodiatry.co.uk ------Red Cross Jane Keeves 261573 County Councillor Robin Brown 01327 842130 ------email: [email protected] Roman Catholic Church Fr. James Evans ------Craft Group Pam 260774 Presbytery 01295 660592 meet Tuesdays at 2pm-4pm in Memorial Hall E-mail: [email protected] ------Need an MOT? 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Beavers Carol Appleby 262967 ------Eydon Players Louise Brown 260788 Cubs Jennie Curtis 261886 ------Scouts Nathan Appleby 262967 Fire Brigade National Benevolent Fund ------Mr G Steels 261712 Social Club Robin Gilling (Hon Sec) 260773 ------Football: Woodford United FC Stagecoach Customer Services 01865 772250 NEW The Vintage Chairman Andy Worrall 264519 [email protected] or Kevin Bowman Juniors age 5-16 01295 660912 ------St John’s Ambulance Audrey Connors BEAUTY SALON Footpath & Bridleway Warden Joe Pitt 261914 ------on 01604 820056 Beauty Garden Club Coral Snow 07486 388396 ------OPENING IN ------Street Lighting (Give post number) Enthusiasts’ Association Kay Coles 01327 438236 WOODFORD Meets second Wednesday of the month at Social Club ------John Rose 262564 Thames Valley Water and Sewer Leaks 0800 714614 Salon ------Guides and Brownies Jenni McDonnell 843310 Women’s Institute Secretary Diane Kenny 262454 ------Meets 1st Tues of the month, 7.30pm in Memorial Hall Handy Person Scheme 302322 (DDC) ------Our aim is to make all our clients feel History Society Chairman Julie Williams 262371 Woodford cum Membris Bowls Club ------Chairman Brian North 01327 261108 Highway Warden Pat Knight 07854 430247 woodfordbowlsclub.weebly.com totally relaxed, welcome, beautiful and special. 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