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Stretton FMay 208 OCUSCommunity Voice of the Strettons £1.00 Stokesay Castle and Timber Framed Gatehouse May 2008 mag.indd 1 18/4/08 12:03:03 Stretton Focus 2 (founded 1967) In Focus Average monthly sales 1,475 copies (About 65% of households in Church Stretton) News What’s On in the Strettons in May Chairman 5 Burway Books – up for Award If you wish to know the times of regular meetings of societies and groups, please consult the list of societies and their contacts in the yellow pages. Mike Edmunds 723961 Editors 7 Arts Festival News Barbara Vickery 724179 11 Mayfair News 2 FRIDAY Gay Walker 722257 27 St Lawrence School News Country Market 8.45am Mayfair Cover Editor 17 Long Mynd Paths Reconstruction Yvonne Beaumont 722533 Computer Production 18 SSFS News 3 SATURDAY Barrie Raynor 723928 23 Knights Way Walk Shropshire Wildlife Trust Rowland Jackson 722390 24 Good Neighbours Jubilee Coffee Morning and Plant Sale Paul Miller 724596 10.00am - 12noon Parish Centre Distribution 29 Church Stretton School News Richard Carter 724106 29 Scraptastic at Scrappies Advertising 37 Parish Paths Partnership News 5 MONDAY Graham Young 724647 41 Rushbury Muck Lug Mayfair – May Fayre Treasurer Robert Woodier 720016 42 Rotary Club Report Stalls, refreshments, circus skills Secretary 42 Masonic aid to Local Organisations 11.00 - 3.00pm See Page 11 Gloria Carter 724106 42 Magpies News Directors Forthcoming Events Flicks in the Sticks Mike Edmunds (Chmn), Gloria Carter (Sec), Sandie Johnson, Pat Oxtoby, Barrie Raynor 7 Walkers are Welcome Launch ‘Zodiac’ 7.30pm CS School (V Chmn), Peter Relph, Lesley Richards, Robert 7 South Shropshire Ramblers Walks See Page 38 Woodier (Treas), Peter Wright 11 Mayfair AGM email address 11 Mayfair May Fayre 6 TUESDAY [email protected] 17 Cunnery Rd Cemetery Focus AGM 2.00pm Mayfair Advertisements Rates for block and occasional 18 Sport and Community Meeting advertisements may be obtained (send 27 Lifeboats Social Afternoon Lifeboats Social Afternoon s.a.e.) from the Advertising Manager, 35 Gardening Club Outings 3.00pm Methodist Church Hall Graham Young, 30 Alison Road, Church Stretton, SY6 7AT, 37 Music for a Summer Evening See Page 27 Tel: 01694 724647 or email 38 A Trip to London [email protected] 38 CMV and the Shropshire Hills 7 WEDNESDAY to whom copy should be sent. 38 Dorrington Players Methodist Network Group The Stretton Focus Management Board cannot 38 Flicks in the Sticks Speaker: Rev. Joan Warner accept responsibility for any product or service advertised. Acceptance of an advertisement does 38 LibDem Plant Sale 2.30pm Methodist Church hall not imply any form of approval or recommendation. Advertisers are required to comply with the British Code 38 More Singers Concert of Advertising Practice. 38 Singing the Classics 8 THURSDAY Submission of articles If possible, please submit material 38 Spirit at Work in the Strettons? Sport & Community Meeting electronically to 41 Acton Scott Heritage Project 7.00pm Town Council Offi ce [email protected] as an 41 Lingen Davies Charity Walk See Page 18 attachment with a pertinent title, not simply ‘Focus Article’. Typed or legible 41 Preen Family History handwritten copy, discs, CDs with 42 Friends of St Laurence Coffee Mng 9 FRIDAY original unimproved digital photographs or good quality glossy photographs may Regular Features Country Market 8.45am Mayfair be left at Wrights, Estate Agent, Sandford 2 What’s On Avenue clearly labelled ‘Stretton Focus’. All copy must be received by noon on the 4 Shopping in The Strettons Farmers Market date below. 11 Thank You 9.00 - 1.00pm Market Square Disclaimer 11 Gardening in May Stretton Focus prints a wide range of articles and letters. The views expressed by signed articles are 11 Mayfair Lottery Senior Citizens Club those of their authors and not necessarily those of the Management Board. 17 March Weather ‘Age Concern’ 2.30pm URC Hall Copy day 18 Anglican Voice is normally the fi rst Monday of the 18 URC Voice 10 SATURDAY month. 21,24 Town Council Minutes Friends of St Laurence For the June 2008 issue it is Monday 5th May (12 noon). 22 Walk of the Month Coffee Morning. Variety of stalls For the July issue it will be Monday 2nd 24 Methodist Voice 10.00am - 12noon Parish Centre MAY 2008 MAY June. 27 Catholic Voice See Page 42 The June Stretton Focus will be 27 Quaker Voice distributed on Friday 30th May 27 Trivia Corner Living Cemetery Project Outlets 29 Plant of the Month Celebration event Stretton Focus may be purchased 34 Letters 10.20am Cunnery Road Cemetery by annual subscription (delivered) or directly from Newsworld (Sandford 37 Where is it? - Photo Quiz Avenue), Whinberries (All Stretton 37 Trivia Answers Stretton Choral Society Stores), Co-op, Spar, Longmynd Filling Other ‘Singing the Classics’ Station (A49), Visitor Information Centre (Church St) and the Churches. 5 Your Magazine Needs You Tickets £8 (£3 under 18s) 8 Stretton Cricketers 7.30pm CS School © 2007 Stretton Focus Limited See Page 38 Registration No. 6237590 Inc in England Registered Offi ce: 49 Ludlow Road, Church Stretton, SY6 6AD StRETTON FOCUS StRETTON ISSN 1479–7356 Printed by WPG, Welshpool May 2008 mag.indd 2 18/4/08 12:03:04 What’s On in the Strettons in May 3 If you wish to know the times of regular meetings of societies and groups, please consult the list of societies and their contacts in the yellow pages. 11 SUNDAY 17 SA T URDAY 22-24 THU -SA T ‘Bluebell Walk on Wenlock Edge’ Severn Hospice Charity Walks Dorrington Players with the National Trust. £3. 9.15am URC Hall 7.30pm SHI 2.00pm Wilderhope Manor Car Park See Page 38 (SO545928) Details from: 722631 CS Methodist Wives & Friends Spring Fayre in aid of Stretton Carers 23 FRIDAY ‘Spirit in the Strettons?’ 10.00 - 12noon Methodist Hall Country Market 6.00pm Methodist Church Hall 8.45am Mayfair See Page 38 LibDem Plant Sale 10.30am at The Paddocks, Farmers Market 13 TUE S DAY 86 Sandford Ave, CS 9.00 - 1.00pm Market Square Senior Citizens Club Dinner and Countryside Mystery Tour 18 SUNDAY Senior Citizens Club Details: 722454 Afternoon Tea with Tim Pears ‘My Gap Year’ by Aaron Wildblood 3.30pm Longmynd Hotel 2.30pm URC Hall CS Stretton Women’s Institute See Page 7 Resolutions for national AGM 24 SA T URDAY 7.15pm SHI 19 MONDAY Stretton Climate Care - Duck Races Quiz Evening in aid of Carers’ Assoc (sufficient water permitting) CS Methodist Wives & Friends Booking: 724957 11.00am start CMV ‘Climate Change’ by Jon Cooke 7.45pm CS & District Club 8.00pm Methodist Church Hall 27 TUE S DAY 20 TUE S DAY Strettons Civic Society 14 WEDNE S DAY CS & District Gardening Club ‘Miners and dialects of Clee Hill’ Methodist Network Group Afternoon visit to The Citadel, Weston-under- by Alf Jenkins + AGM (Free entry) ‘Circle Dancing’ with Pam Rush Redcastle. £8.75 (members) £9.75 (non- 7.30pm SHI 2.30pm Methodist Church hall members) Details: 724371 28 WEDNE S DAY Mayfair AGM CMV & the Shropshire Hills 7.00pm Mayfair Countrywomen’s Guild Slide show, Talk and Bus Ride ‘Pharmacy’ by Rob Allman 2.00 - 5.00pm CMV Strettons Art Society 2.15pm Parish Centre See Page 38 Pen and Ink techniques with Heather Prescott Mothers’ Union Meeting 30 FRIDAY 7.00pm CS School 2.30pm Parish Centre Country Market 8.45am Mayfair 16 FRIDAY All Stretton Women’s Institute Country Market ‘Climate Change and Your Garden’ by Dr Farmers Market 8.45am Mayfair Steve Reynolds 9.00 - 1.00pm Market Square 7.30pm AS Village Hall All Stretton History Group 31 SA T URDAY ‘An Evening from the 50s’ (50s dress 21 WEDNE S DAY Book Sale optional). Inc sausage & mash supper Bible Society Lunch (In aid of Greyhound Rescue) 2008 MAY Tickets from: 722537 or 723706 Tickets £4.50 from any church 10.00am - 2.00pm Parish Centre 12.30pm URC Hall Preen Family History Study Group Methodist Network Group 10.00am - 4.00pm Cardington Village Hall ‘Ballooning’ by Hannah Bridge See Page 41 FOCUS StRETTON 2.30pm Methodist Church hall Church Stretton Book Fair (Café for the Severn Hospice) 10.00am - 4.00pm SHI Abbreviations LS = Little Stretton Framed Gatehouse AS = All Stretton NT = National Trust THIS MONTH’S COVER Photo: Yvonne Beaumont Photo: Stokesay Castle and Timber Timber Stokesay Castle and CA = Craven Arms SHDC = Shrops Hills Discovery Centre CMV = Carding Mill Valley SHI = Silvester Horne Institute CS = Church Stretton TC = Town Council HB = Hope Bowdler URC = United Reformed Church May 2008 mag.indd 3 18/4/08 12:03:04 4 Shopping in The Strettons his month we reach our turning point in Sandford Avenue and start to move towards Beaumont Road, and we have a Tdiverse collection of shops to talk about. Spar hich of us has never found that we have run out of something vital in the middle of the evening, and thanked the Spar shop for staying open till W9 o’clock? Although it is a comparatively small supermarket and so cannot offer an enormous range of choices, there are few essentials that cannot be bought here. In addition to food, both fresh and frozen, there are wines, beers and spirits, cleaning materials, toiletries, stationery and newspapers and magazines. And of course, there are the delicious hot snacks baked on the premises, which are a potential threat to all our waistlines. At the rear of the shop is also our local Post Office, whose friendly staff never find anything too much trouble. Pippins veryone in Church Stretton knows Ali, the owner of Pippins fruit and vegetable shop.