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TheThe BramleyBramleyFREE FOR BRAMLEY AND LITTLE LONDON MagazineMagazine November 2015 2 WELCOME By the time you read this I will have ringing in my ears from seeing U2 at the The O2 arena. The last time I saw them live was 1986 - that either shows my age or demonstrates Bono and co’s staying power. It made me think how trends and fashions come and go, while other things remain constant. U2 have been going Bramley strong for over 35 years but much as I love listening to them (and I know at least half of those reading this will either hate them or never have heard of them!) I have to admit that no-one is likely to be listening to their songs in 100 years time. On the other hand I am sure people will still be listening to Mozart and Magazine Beethoven as they have been for the last 200 plus years. for Bramley and It is the same with fashion. Things that used to be sought after and were regularly seen in people’s homes can’t be given away nowadays. When my late Little London Nanny was around 40 she bought a regency reproduction dining room table and chairs, which she used for many years. I inherited it about 20 years ago, but November 2015 there is no place for it in my new house. My plan was to sell it on eBay but I soon found out that no-one wants mahogany furniture anymore. After various failed attempts to sell it for what I thought was a reasonable price I gave up and offered Chairman of Steering Group: it to the St Michael’s hospice shop. At least they would collect it I thought. But Rhydian Vaughan no, they couldn’t take it because the chairs didn’t have a fire certificate. So I went [email protected] back to eBay and finally sold it for the princely sum of £5. Sadly the lady who bought it claimed she had just moved to the country and didn’t realise how far Editor: she would have to come to collect it, so it is still in my garage covered in boxes Rachel Barclay Smith and tools. My Nanny will not be happy! [email protected] Something that must never go out of fashion is our practice of remembering the sacrifice made by so many servicemen in the two world wars and subsequent Schools Editor: conflicts. November 8th is Remembrance Sunday and the poignant article on Emily Sykes page 18 reminds us why we must never forget. Some people may think that steam trains have gone out of fashion but judging by the number of people who Advertising: got up early to see the Cathedrals Express pass through Bramley, they are as Joan Shadwell popular as ever. See the photos on page 17. Christmas is unlikely ever to go out [email protected] of fashion and while it may seem ages away it will soon be here so take a look at www.fromthesmallestseed.co.uk page 23 and start planning early. Best Wishes Treasurer: Rachel Alex Marianos (881665) [email protected] (Rachel Barclay Smith - Editor) Minister: PS - does anyone want a dining room table and chairs – free to a good home!! Rev’d John Lenton (880570) [email protected] www.stjamesbramley.com Bramley Parish Council Clerk: Maxta Thomas (07810 692486) “Remember remember the fifth of November [email protected] Gunpowder, treason and plot. Chairman: Anthony Durrant www.bramleypc.co.uk I see no reason why gunpowder, treason Should ever be forgot...” Artwork and Printing Ian Crossley, Greenhouse Graphics Unit 8, Cufaude Business Park, Cufaude Lane, Bramley, RG26 5DL 01256 880770 www.greenhousegraphics.co.uk DID YOU KNOW? The next issue of the Bramley Magazine is In 1809 Mary Ann Brailsford planted an apple tree in her garden a double issue for December and January. in Southwell, Nottinghamshire. A few years later the house was To avoid disappointment please let me bought by a Matthew Bramley who named the apples after have your articles as soon as possible and himself – Bramley apples. Apparently the tree is still growing no later than 15 November. and producing apples over 200 years later. Cover photo: Steam Train in Bramley Station by Neil Smith 3 6WHYHB&DQQLQJ%UDPOH\/D\RXW3DJH GENERAL DOMESTIC MAINTENANCE & REPAIRS Electrical Plumbing Painting Decorating Doors & Gates Outbuildings Steve Canning TMIET MIOSH 21, Hawkley Drive, Tadley 01189 820477 (home) 07818 422191 (mobile) [email protected] 4 CHURCH SERVICES Church diary for November 2015… 1st All Saints’ Day Come and see what it’s all about 9.00 Holy Communion – Little London Saturday 7 November, 4.30-5.30pm 10.30 Matins (BCP, 1662) – Bramley in Bramley School hall, all welcome 7th Saturday 4.30pm **Café Church** - Bramley Primary School Hall 8th Remembrance Sunday 8.00 Holy Communion – Bramley 10.30 Remembrance Service – Bramley 15th Second Sunday before Advent 8.00 Holy Communion (BCP, 1662) – Bramley 10.30 Family Service 22nd Sunday next before Advent 8.00 Holy Communion – Bramley 10.30 Holy Communion – Bramley 29th Advent Sunday 9.00 Holy Communion – Little London 10.30 Christingle Family Service … and into December 5th Saturday 5.00pm **Carols with Tadley Concert Brass and Lighting of the Christmas Tree Lights – Bramley Village Bakery** Santa’s Grotto, Mince pies, mulled wine, stalls and a hog roast! Come and join in! 6th Second Sunday of Advent 9.00 Holy Communion – Little London 10.30 Matins (BCP, 1662) – Bramley Light up a Life 13th Third Sunday of Advent 8.00 Holy Communion – Bramley St. Michael’s Hospice would like to 10.30 Holy Communion – Bramley invite you to their Light up a Life 5.00pm Carol Service – Little London service, taking place on Sunday 6th 20th Fourth Sunday of Advent December at 18.00hrs in the grounds 8.00 Holy Communion (BCP, 1662) – Bramley of the Hospice. No 10.30 morning service 6.00pm Carol Service – Bramley The service led by Bishop John Dennis, the Bishop of Basingstoke Catholic services and Hospice Chaplain Liz Lang, will Basingstoke give time for reflection, remembering Church of St Bede, Popley Way, RG24 9DX precious memories of loved ones who Sunday Mass: 9.00 am, 11.00 am and 6.30 pm in St Bede’s cannot be with us this Christmas. Mass usually: Tues, Thurs and Sat 9.30 am in St Bede’s Holy Ghost Church, Sherborne Road, RG21 5TX: Mass usually: Mon, Wed, Fri 9.30 am in Holy Ghost Church If you would like to make a Phone 01256 465214 or email dedication in memory of a loved one, [email protected] for information please visit stmichaelshospice.org. See www.stbedesbasingstoke.org.uk uk/events or for further information Tadley please contact the Fundraising St Michael’s Church, Bishopswood Road, RG26 4HG Hotline on 01256 848848. Saturday Mass: 6.00 pm Sunday Mass: 9.30 am Parish priest: 0118 9814572 5 6 ON REFLECTION t’s dropped off our front plenty, followed by 7 years of famine pages in the last couple of right across the Middle East. After weeks, vanished from our a couple of years of famine, as many I people faced starvation, hordes began TV screens, disappeared from the Twitter feeds… to head for Egypt, where the store rooms were full to overflowing with From the way that it’s gone off our grain, and they were able to buy food at radar, you might think that the a reasonable price. politicians had at last found a sensible, What if Joseph had said “No! This food just, compassionate solution to the is for Egypt! Go away and starve!” The problem. But actually, it’s just that world’s history would have been very the media ran out of new things to say different. But God hadn’t sent Joseph about it, so it stopped being a story. there for nothing, as Joseph later What am I talking about? Of course: recalled: “God intended it for good to it’s the refugee/ migrant crisis which accomplish what is now being done, the dominated our news media in the first Rev’d John Lenton saving of many lives.” part of September and seems now to buying vegetables and fruit – those When the nation of Israel was be a non-issue, from the number of refugees who have taken unimaginable established, God gave His people column inches written about it. risks with their own lives and the lives But for the people concerned, the ones of their families, just to find a place specific commandments regarding in precarious little blow-up dinghies, where they can bring their children up any foreigners who moved there: “The trying to make their way from Turkey in safety, free from the ever-present community is to have the same rules to the Greek islands, the ones trudging threat of violent death… can we really for you and for the foreigner residing through Macedonia and Serbia and say that they must not come in? Can among you… You and the foreigner failing to get into Hungary, so going on we really, in all conscience, man the shall be the same before the Lord.” through Croatia, the problem hasn’t barricades and kick their hands away Describing God’s attitude to those gone away. Just when they thought it as they try to clamber over? in need, Moses proclaimed to the Israelites, “[God] defends the cause was all over, now that they’ve made it As I write this, a letter to The Times of the fatherless and the widow, and into Europe, they find that it’s actually signed by 300 judges and other loves the foreigner residing among you, just starting, as they come face to face prominent people is saying that our giving them food and clothing.” with barbed wire, bureaucracy, and government’s grudging concession, barriers across every point of access.