February 2018 The Leaving Winter Behind and Looking Forward to Spring Edition
Snailbeach & District News, Issue 345 Page 1 February 2018 News in Brief
Snailbeach & Stiperstones The committee is planning to replace The first Story Time will be on 1st Village book the blue chairs in the hall. The new February at 2.30pm From the year 2000 events in our chairs will be easily moveable and villages of Stiperstones and Snailbeach stackable; making them a practical In other news, On Saturday 3rd have been recorded in a book. option especially as the hall is now so February we are looking forward to the Unfortunately, it was mislaid for a well used. arrival of the library sculpture. The while but has now reappeared and I am sculptor, Bill Sample will be unveiling currently custodian (unless anyone out Just a reminder to everyone there is no the piece and will talk about his work. there would like the job!!). overnight car parking allowed in the Keep an eye out for posters with full village hall car park. The exception to details. The book is a great way to remember this is bad weather, particularly snow, what happens in the villages - from when many would struggle to reach John & Ann Jones would like to thank births, deaths, and marriages; to the their homes. everyone that gave donations to their Beach Party; what happens at the Christmas lights. £2,029.10 will be village hall; our churches and the Bog; Stiperstones Carol Singers donated to Lingen Davies Cancer and even simple things like the I would like to extend a massive thank- Appeal. weather! you to the residents of the Stiperstones for their generous donations during our Friends of Snailbeach As the book was out of action for a carol singing evening. We raised Methodist Church while, I have attempted to update it but £273.05 on the evening and further The friends of Snailbeach Methodist it’s not going to be perfect. donations received raised the total to Church would like to say a big ‘Thank £283.05, for which I have sent a cheque you’ to the organisers of the Beach If there are any events you would like onto the Lingen Davies Cancer Appeal. Party for the generous donation of £600 included over the last two years and Special thanks to Malcolm & Lorna, which has been a great help to our ongoing, please let me have the details. Malcolm & Doreen and Elspeth & John finances. You can either pop a note in our post for their kind hospitality which was box, email me on very greatly received. We are also grateful to everyone who [email protected] or leave a supported our coffee morning in note at the pub. We all had a lovely night as the weather December which together with was kind to us for a change, see you all donations raised £606. This event was When we have our next open event at next year which will be here before we organised instead of our Memory Tree, the Village Hall, I’ll make sure it’s can blink! and the proceeds have been sent to The available so everyone can see it. Hospice, Lingen Davies and Hope Wendy Whitelaw and carol singers. House. Many Thanks. Snailbeach Village Hall We had a wonderful Christmas Fair on Pontesbury Library Mary Challinor writes: the last Thursday evening in November Once upon a time, in the village of I am sure that, as in previous years, you which attracted a wide variety of Pontesbury, there was a library. The would like to join me in saying a big Christmas and crafts stalls. It was well library was in a little wooden hut at the ‘Thank You’ to John and Ann for the attended; the mince pies and mulled foot of the very famous Elephant Hill. wonderful display of Christmas lights wine were enjoyed by all. Though it Once a month on a Monday morning which have lit up our village over the was not primarily intended to be a the children were entertained with Christmas period. Well done! fundraiser, a raffle for a huge blue stories and jolly rhymes. Unfortunately, unicorn, won by Neil Jones, together this wasn’t a very good day. So the A ‘thank you’ from Marg Price, with the stall holders fees and the sale library ladies Mrs Linkabelle and Mrs Lower Works. of refreshments raised £224. Bonnet asked the help of the Jennifer After my recent hip operation I would Fairies, sometimes called Jen and like to thank you all for your kindness Our annual general meeting, also in Jenny. (Not to be confused with Jenny in sending cards, ‘phone calls, lovely November, saw the election of a new who magics books back onto the flowers, cakes, chocs and visits by Chairman; Philip Sproson-Jones. We shelves) They are going to entertain the friends; Kim and Wendy for beautiful also welcomed new trustees, Ray and pre-school children with singing and meals. I think I’ve done really well and Caroline Harper and Rosa McCombe. stories of awe and wonder, this will be can’t wait to have a good walk. I’ve not the first Thursday of the month at the done Elsie’s walk yet, so that will be Unfortunately, our planned social new time of 2.30. We hope the new first on my list. Thank you all again and events for December, the bingo and time will be very good for filling a little a happy 2018. carol singing with the brass band, both gap between lunch and school pick up. had to be cancelled due to the snow.
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Notes from the Editor Regular Local Activities
Stiperstones Brass Rehearsals Snailbeach Village Hall Mondays 6. 30pm We’re now well into 2018 and the revelries and overindulgences of Christmas Bingo Night and the New Year are but a distant memory, as is the Great December Snow, Stiperstones Inn so I’ve put together a forward looking, motivational front cover this month. 2nd Monday - 8.00pm I hope you can take some inspiration from it. Quiz Night Stiperstones Inn I love a good snow, and thoroughly enjoyed battling my way on foot from Last Monday - 8. 00pm Lower Works up to the Stiperstones Inn to be met with a mulled wine and a roaring fire. John the Shop, as canny as ever, managed somehow to provide a Knitter Natter good supply of toboggans for all the youngsters and not so young. Stiperstones Inn Tuesdays from 10. 00am It occurred to me as I watched various groups of lads and lassies in search of a good downhill run, that many of them would never have seen snow as deep Yo ga as this before in their young and not so young lives. Many local people I spoke Snailbeach Village Hall to said that this was the heaviest snowfall they had seen in some two Tuesday & Wednesday 10am decades. Fortunately (or unfortunately for the tobogganists) it was soon to disappear with the heavy rain that followed. Will we ever again see the ‘big Iyengar Yo ga freeze’ of ’63? The snow back then started on Boxing Day 1962 and the ‘big Snailbeach Village Hall freeze’ lasted until March 1963 with temperatures dropping to minus 22° Tuesday 7pm centigrade in parts of the UK. January that year was the coldest month since 1814. In February 1963 a huge snowstorm struck Northern Ireland, south- Olit/ Pilates Lessons west England and Wales. That led to a fall of nearly 5ft of snow in Tredegar in Snailbeach Village Hall Monmouthshire with drifts of over 20ft. Now that’s what I call snow! Olit: Wednesdays at 6pm-7pm The Snailbeach District News appears to be going from strength to strength at Pilates: Wednesdays 7.10pm-810 pm the moment, and we are most grateful for all the positive comments we get. As a consequence, however, we are receiving an increased volume of copy Ballroom Dancing for inclusion. This is proving taxing on our limited space! So, we are going to Snailbeach Village Hall introduce a “first come, first served” policy. If we can squeeze it all in, then we 1st & 3rd Thursdays will (no innuendo intended!). If we can’t squeeze it into the current month, we From 7.30pm will then, of course, hold it over for the following month. So, if you have an idea for something you think might take a full page or more, then try to get in Snailbeach WI touch with me earlier rather than later so I can allocate the right amount of Snailbeach Village Hall space. 2nd Thursday - 7. 30pm Do keep sending us your articles, comments and news though! It’s these that Fit Club continue to make the SDN the vibrant, free and local newsletter it has Stiperstones School Playground Sunday 9 am become!
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finished in the top twenty. Over 50s winner Mercian John Taylor also ran with the wrong number to increase my Dawdle & Dash 2017 apparent incompetence at the prize giving and was followed home by Shrewsbury's Kevin Francis, and un- attached Nick Dixon. Over 60s champion, Ed Davies of Mercia retained his title finishing over a minute ahead of Ambleside fellsman Stephen Atherton and Phil Clarke also of Mercia. Pontesbury born Dave Evason was the M70 winner and could celebrate with his two children, their partners and grandchildren all competing in the event.
In the junior classes, MS Wheeler Alex Hart reversed places with Devil's Chair Dawdle or Dash 2017 - our 39th year. Shrewsbury's Jamie The elite guys are jostling for a place on the front row Speake and Tom Cattle of and amongst them standing calmly a young runner - Bridgnorth. Last year's u18 cheeky devil I thought and joked with him as to how he winner George Arthur was should be careful not to be trampled underfoot at the first 4 minutes behind outright corner. I didn't realise that this was William Kay, West winner William Kay, Midland Junior Xcountry champion, ranked 50th in the Ludlow's Aiden Yapp was UK over 5000m and due to become the youngest ever third. For the girls' winner of the Dawdle or Dash. Virtually leading from Shrewsbury's Bethany start to finish 15-year-old William, from Telford AC Trow retained her title finished clear of Mercian Daniel Connolly and Straggler from team mates Bethany Robert Wilcox. His time of 23.03 was only a few seconds Wilson and Lillie Dean. slower than veteran Paul Jones's winning time last year. U18s Jazz Maddocks held off Chloe Speak again but Charlotte Broadhurst proved Mountain biker and skier too good for both of them. Joel Chidley returned from Canada to steal the As usual, the event was well supported with overseas First Local trophy from competitors from Canada, USA and Singapore and fell his uncle and previous runners from the Lake District, Derbyshire and Wales event winner Reuben swelling the ranks of Mercia, Malldwyn, Shrewsbury, Alldridge. Telford and a strong turn out from the Shropshire Shufflers. In the women's event, Mercian runners filled Many, many, many thanks to all the marshals on the hill, the podium places with car parkers, sandwich makers and the spectators who Amy Partridge turning make the event so enjoyable. Extra thanks to Karl for the tables on Sarah letting us use his yard, to Simon Cooter from Natural Wilholt with Anna England who finished in a very creditable 35mins, to Bartlett running with her Charlie and Chris for taking the photographs and to the sister's number finishing Guardian newspaper for using a photograph with John third and retaining the ladies vet prize. In the over 50s and I hidden and for calling me 'Sproson' in the article. Sarah Edwards pipped Shrewsbury's Gill Evans (still recovering from her exposure in the Guardian) and Juliet Well done too the fancy dressers Santas, ballerinas, Hoad. Over 60s winner Jo Fotheringham was inside 45 strange double headed beasts and a pixie mins with Judy Howells, Debra Delglyn and Lesley Pymm of Bourneville finishing close together in around Proceeds have topped the £1,250 mark - so give 50 mins and elder statesladies Jill Leventon and Lesley yourselves three cheers. Schofield showed that 70 is no barrier to competing. Geoff Sproson – Stiperstones 2017 In the veteran men's classes, Telford's Christian Evans, Torq runner Richard Bacon, and Johnny Lawson all Photography By Charlie Laventon & Chris Raw
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Snailbeach & District News, Issue 345 Page 6 February 2018 This month in the garden… No c e of T ree f ell in g and m ber e xtr ac on a t Ber gum Woo d
Ber gum W ood was rec en tly p ur ch ased by na tur al England wi th the help o f p ubli c don a on s. As th e r st p ar t o f our res tor a on of t his lan d t o uplan d oa k w ood land w e wil l need t o r emo ve th e co nif er tr ees fr om th e si te. Week 1. This w ork is pr og rammed t o s tart a t t he end of Jan uary 2018. …early spring, time to mulch the borders… Du e t o th e asp ec t o f th e sit e wi th th e r oa d belo w, th is ma y Mulch the borders with a thick layer of compost or in vol ve t empo rar y r es tri c on s on t ra c mo vemen t wh il e well-rotted manure to give nourishment through the tr ees ar e being f ell ed or mber mo ved . I h ope th is wil l no t coming year and aid water retention in the soil. In mild cause t oo mu ch in con ven ien ce an d ho pe t hat y ou can b ear weather continue to plant deciduous trees and shrubs. wi th u s whil e t he w ork s ar e comple ted . A ll t ree w ork s wi ll be Indoor bulbs that have finished flowering can be comple ted b y t he end of M arch.
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Snailbeach & District News, Issue 345 Page 8 February 2018 Now that’s quite interesting… Heaven and Hell A holy man was having a conversation with the Lord one day and said, 'Lord, I would like to know what Heaven and Hell are like.'
The Lord led the holy man to two doors. He opened one of the doors and the holy man looked in. In the middle of the room was a large round table. In the middle of the table was a large pot of stew, which smelled delicious and made the holy man's mouth water.
• More wine is drunk per head in Vatican City The people sitting around the table were thin and sickly. than any other country on Earth. They appeared to be famished. They were holding • There is no known scientific way of predicting spoons with very long handles that were strapped to their earthquakes. The most reliable method is to arms and each found it possible to reach into the pot of count the number of missing cats in the local stew and take a spoonful. But because the handle was paper: if it trebles, an earthquake is longer than their arms, they could not get the spoons imminent. back into their mouths. The holy man shuddered at the • In the 19th and early 20th centuries, having sight of their misery and suffering. all your teeth removed and replaced with The Lord said, 'You have seen Hell.' false ones was a popular 21st-birthday They went to the next room and opened the door. It was present. exactly the same as the first one. • In North Welsh, the word for ‘now’ is ‘rwan’, in South Welsh it is ‘nawr’, the same word There was the large round table with the large pot of spelt backwards. stew which made the holy man's mouth water. The • The Irish word ‘leis’ (pronounced ‘lesh’) has people were equipped with the same long-handled four different meanings. “Bhí leis leis leis leis” spoons, but here the people were well nourished and means, “His thigh was naked also”. plump, laughing and talking. • It is cheaper to send Scottish cod to China to The holy man said, 'I don't understand.' be filleted and sent back again than to fillet 'It is simple,' said the Lord. 'It requires but one skill. You the fish in Scotland. see they have learned to feed each other, while the • The English word ‘squirrel’ is particularly greedy think only of themselves.' difficult for Germans to pronounce. • The first documented blood transfusion took place in 1492, when Pope Innocent VIII was Newsletter Donations. given the blood of three ten-year-old boys. January 2018 • One third of Russians believe that the Sun revolves around the Earth. Many thanks this month to those who sent us • Stephen Hawking was born exactly 300 years, to the day, after Galileo died. anonymous donations. • The Nazis made it illegal on pain of death for If you wish to donate anonymously by direct apes to give the ‘Heil Hitler’ salute. bank transfer our details are: • Zeppo Marx, the youngest of the Marx Sort code: 09-01-54 Brothers, designed the clamping device that A/C no: 05629702 held the atom bombs in place before they Otherwise donations can be left with Phil or were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Lara at the Stiperstones Inn • If you forget the tilde (~) over an N when asking how old someone is in Spanish, you or with myself at 5, Lower Works, SY5 0NY will end up asking them how many anuses they have. Thank you. Without you we would struggle. • Elvis was naturally blond. ♥♥♥
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Edric the Wild name listed in the Domesday Book remains a tricky Shropshire landowner and outlaw affair. Edric was also given the nick name ‘silvaticus’ by the When first I moved to Normans, which is generally thought to derive from the the wilds of West generic term given to a group of people well known in Shropshire, I heard the their day as ‘silvatici’, meaning ‘wild’ or ‘silvestris’, name ‘Wild Edric’ and meaning ‘the woodland’. Many of the rebels after the imagined it was some Conquest took to the woods and marshes, living in tents sort of organic breakfast rather than houses. Though it has been said that this was cereal. “Not so!” cried because it kept them from becoming ‘soft’, it is more many locals. ‘Wild likely that this lifestyle, though affording them all the Edric’ quickly assumed opportunities of a guerrilla style of combat, was thrust mythological status in upon them; the beginnings of the Old English nobility on my mind – he was a their way down and out. ghost from the past who was imprisoned with his In 1067 The presence of a Norman, Richard Fitz Scrob, wife Godda and his followers in the Snailbeach mines who had the fortress at Richard's Castle near Ludlow, the tap, tap, tapping to draw the attention of living miners to first of its kind in England, meant that Hereford was one the richest seams. He was a local ‘Hereward the Wake’ of the few counties that had been subdued by that time, who rose up against enemies of England throughout and Richard and his men, aided by the garrison at history in times of great need. He had been seen on Hereford, harried Edric's land because he refused to several occasions riding towards the enemy at the time of submit. Edric raised a rebellion and joined with Welsh the Napoleonic and Crimean wars and again at the start forces under Bleddyn ap Cynfyn, Prince of Gwynedd and of the First and Second World Wars. It is said there is his brother Riwallon, Prince of Powys. They raided even a great fish that wears Edric’s sword that lives in Herefordshire as far as the River Lugg at Leominster but Bromere Pool! No one will be able to catch this fish until could not capture Hereford Castle. The city of Hereford Edric's descendants return to Condover Hall, his birth was devastated instead and Edric retreated to plan further place, and confusingly, he is now an English rose, raids. Skirmishing continued between Edric and the described as strong and delicious; exceptionally tough Normans for the next two years, but Edric remained and reliable – all the qualities (with the exception of undefeated. delicious!) that seemed to fit the persona of the legend that is Edric. More recently he has been seen driving at In 1069 King William had to take an army north to defeat full tilt towards Europe in a battered old green, Series 1, a rebellion by the Saxon Earls of Northumberland and Land Rover Defender. Actually, I made that last bit up… Mercia. Edric took the opportunity to raid Norman lands in the north of Shropshire and burned the town of So who was the real ‘Wild Edric’? Shrewsbury, though unable to capture Shrewsbury Castle. He was helped in this by rebels from Cheshire and his old Historical records describe him as an Anglo-Saxon noble Welsh allies. As soon as he heard of the raid, King who led a resistance movement against the Normans in William headed south again and Edric wisely Shropshire between the years 1067-70. Like many of his retreated to his lands in and around the Stiperstones. The kind, before the invasion of 1066 he spent most of his Welsh and Cheshire rebels, however, did not retreat and time drinking or hunting around the Long Mynd, they were defeated by King William in a battle near Stiperstones and Forest of Clun. In total we believe he Stafford. ruled over 56 manors and around 3,500 people. Though Edric was a common name in pre-Conquest England, William then proceeded to devastate the lands held by mention of him in the Domesday Book in 1086 describes Edric, who finally surrendered and swore allegiance to one particular Shropshire Edric with the word ‘salvage’, King William in 1070. William left Edric with only 3 the Old French equivalent of ‘sauvage’ , or ‘the wild’. manors so he could support himself and his family. These This marks him out as the owner of manors in Lydham, included Bourton Manor in Shropshire, and 2 small Loppington, Berwick, Middleton, Weston and Hope manors in Herefordshire, Cuple and Laysters. Bowdler amongst others. It is believed that he owned land both in Shropshire and Herefordshire, but (Continued over) identification with any other of the landholders of this
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Snailbeach & District News, Issue 345 Page 12 February 2018 Edric the Wild (Continued from page 11) Thank you on behalf of the And so, after 3 short years of rebellion, Edric was finally forced into quiet servitude. In 1072 Edric was Women’s Refuge among the personal followers of William in his expedition against the Scottish; an arrangement which Early last year a call went out from the Holy no doubt served to keep this wild man of Shropshire Trinity Church, Minsterley for knitted squares safely under the royal eye. This is the last that authentic to make blankets/throws for the Women’s history has to say about him; this is where "true" history Refuge. The response was amazing. Six ends and legend takes over… blankets, 1 cot blanket and 3 doll’s blankets were made, each with a label telling the ‘Wild Edric’ is said by some, even now, to haunt the women that they are handmade ‘With Love’. Stretton Hills as a large black dog with fiery eyes and Thank you to everyone who knitted there are those who would see his imprisonment in the wonderfully coloured squares and also thank Snailbeach lead mines as a punishment for making peace with the Conqueror. It is said that, when danger you to Christine Watson and Barbara threatens England, Edric and his men are released from Norsworthy who provided teddy bears to go the mines so that they can fight again, only to return with the doll’s blankets to make them even underground once the danger is passed. He cannot die more special. until all wrong is made right and England is returned to the state it was before the Norman Conquest. Guess he’s A second ‘thank you’ goes to everyone who going to be tapping away in our local mine for some helped us raise a wonderful amount of money time yet, then. on the Craft Stall at the Holy Trinity, Minsterley’s Christmas Fair. Pam Bickley’s ©Patrick Marks – Snailbeach – January 2018 scarves now adorn many necks. Ruth’s immaculately knitted dolls’ clothes have made Acknowledgements to: Dr. David Stephenson – many dolls very well dressed. There were Edric the Wild. A Shropshire Outlaw. many others who also contributed to make it Susan Reynolds – all such a success. Eadric Silvaticus and the English Resistance. Richard Walker – The Women’s Refuge is a safe haven for the Tales of Wild Edric. White Dragon magazine. women and children who go there, usually Anonymous - Wild Edric – Snailbeach & District News quite suddenly, while running away from often August 1987 abusive partners. The refuge provides a safe www.shropshirehistory.com/characters/edric.htm place where women and children can try to put their lives back together and restore their confidence before they go on to the next step of setting up a new home for themselves and their children.
For security reasons, very few people know where the Refuge is and we at Holy Trinity Church just collect gifts and groceries for them at various times of the year to help with little extras . Thank you to everyone for putting so many smiles on so many faces. I wish you all a Happy New Year – wonder what we can do in By Amy Douglas and Lucy Wells 2018?
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Mr. Quips Corner The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school - George Bernard Shaw. • A hangover is the wrath of grapes. I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception - Groucho Marx . • You feel stuck with your debt if you can't budge it. When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; • Does the name Pavlov when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion - Robert Pirsig. ring a bell? • Reading while sunbathing The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute makes you well red. discussion with the average voter - Winston Churchill. • When two egotists meet, it's an ‘I’ for an ‘I’. Anger can be an expensive luxury - Italian Proverb. • If you're living on the edge, make sure you're Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family wearing your seat belt. in another city - George Burns. • Why can't women put on mascara with their mouth I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week closed? without a drink - Joe E. Lewis. • Who tastes dog food when it has a 'new & The only thing worse than being talked about is not being improved' flavour? talked about – Oscar Wilde. • If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled? • If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty - Imelda Marcos. • If 4 out of 5 people suffer from diarrhoea... does that mean that one in five enjoys it? My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll • If a man is in a forest talking to himself with no be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher – Socrates. women around, is he still wrong? She's descended from a long line her mother listened to - • One of the problems about retirement is that it Gypsy Rose Lee. gives you more time to read about the problems of He is one of those people who would be enormously retirement. improved by death - H. H. Munro. • The other bad thing about retirement is, you can't call in sick. He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style - Leo Tolstoy. • Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm. • Quantum Mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of. No man is regular in his attendance at the House of • For Sale: Parachute. Only used once, never Commons until he is married - Benjamin Disraeli. opened, small stain. Sometimes I wonder if men and women • Boycott shampoo! Demand the REAL poo! really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then - Katharine Hepburn.
St. Luke’s Lucky Number and Treasure Hunt These are the winners of the Lucky Numbers and Treasure Hunt held by St. Luke’s Church to raise money for the upkeep of the church. Thanks to all who supported us and to those who donated prizes.
William Evans - £20 Sainsbury’s voucher, Steven (Titch) Williams - £15 Sainsbury’s voucher, Carol McMillan – John Deere jacket, Marie Edwards – Amarallys Lily, Jean Ellis – bottle of Port, Philip Williams – box of chocolates, Rev. Giles Tulk – bottle of wine, Debbie Willner – bottle of mulled wine, John Morris - M & S biscuits, Hazel Potter – Thornton’s chocolates, Elaine Uttley – tin of Celebrations, Andrew Yapp – bottle of wine, Peter Butter – box of chocolates, Clair Corfield – toy tractor, Myra Bunting – bath gift set, Georgia Corfield – chocolates, Phoebe Moore – box of shortbreads, Patrick Jones – bottle of wine, Iain Offin – chocolates, Joan Miller – chocolates, Fran Potter – bag and wine, Joy Corfield – Thornton’s chocolate, Dianne Norrell – bottle of whisky, Martin Millington – jar Quality Street
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food, from tiny zooplankton to whales. Plastic Waste Last year, a study estimated that around eight million now a Local Problem! tonnes of our plastic waste enter the oceans from land each year. I received a ‘phone call recently from a very concerned, unsung hero of our village community, Dougie Boulter. Every minute one rubbish lorry’s worth of plastic is He scours the road and hedgerows from Plox Green to dumped into the sea. If we continue at this rate, some the Village Hall, on a regular basis. He collects all the estimate that our oceans will contain more plastic than refuse thrown from the windows of passing traffic. He fish by 2050. New research reveals that just 10 river has done this for many years; unasked and unpaid. He systems transport more than 90% of plastic waste to the cares passionately and desperately about our world’s oceans. environment, locally and globally. He’s just a regular guy, born and raised in our village. He was almost in Rivers are the arteries of our planet. From tiny tumbling tears as we spoke. streams to vast sluggish deltas, rivers are the link between the atmosphere, land and oceans. Since time He told me, “I’ve just done my usual clean-up of the road immemorial people have clustered near rivers, taking and hedgerow and I’ve picked up more plastic refuse advantage of the fresh water, fertile land, ready-made than I’ve ever picked up. I’m worried. Don’t people transport links and plentiful fish. And of course rivers are realise that this stuff gets washed down the drains, then also excellent conveyor belts for whisking rubbish away. washed into the Severn, then into the sea where it hangs around forever, killing our sea life, and eventually, us?” Single-use plastic bags first appeared in the US in 1957 and in British supermarkets in the late 1960s; worldwide He described how he had found an empty beer can that there are now more than a trillion manufactured every had been discarded. “It’s not just the throwaway plastic year. We reduced our plastic bag use in the UK by 26% that will kill us eventually, it’s on our own local level that last year, to 9.9 billion. We’ve still a long way to go. people’s selfishness is hurting us already. I found an Bottled water entered the mass market in the mid-1980s. empty beer can in the hedgerow. A small field mouse had Global consumption is now 200 billion litres a year and crawled inside. I shook it out. It was dead, of course. The only one in five of those plastic bottles is recycled. poor thing had climbed in, but couldn’t climb out again. Why do people do it?” The total global production of plastic in the 1950s was 5 million tonnes each year. Global production of plastic Coincidentally, Theresa May was talking at me from the now stands at 288 million tonnes per year, of which 10% television, telling me what a wonderful thing it was that ends up in the ocean in time. Litter gets swept into drains her government was doing by making us pay for our and ends up in rivers - so that the plastic straw or cup lid plastic carrier bags from the supermarket, and how the you dropped, the cigarette butt you threw on the road, government is considering raising the price of these bags. could end up in the ocean. I talked with our unsung hero about this and his response was, “ They should make ‘em charge far more than 5p. a A study of fulmar carcases that washed up on North Sea bag! They should take away the bags altogether!” coastlines found that 95% had plastic in their stomachs – an average of 45 pieces per bird. Recently I’ve watched pictures, with dismayed awe, of the huge swirling masses of plastic detritus found floating A dead albatross was found recently with a piece of in the Carribean and the logjam of plastic bottles choking plastic from the 1940s in its stomach. Even if plastic the sacred Ganges in India. And then yet more examples production halted tomorrow, the planet would be dealing of the ludicrous packaging that we all buy into. Coconuts with its environmental consequences for thousands of wrapped in cling film. Apples sold in a plastic throwaway years, and on the bottom of the oceans, where an tube. Plastic straws wrapped in plastic. Chinese estimated 70% of marine plastic debris ends up, for tens takeaways in styrofoam containers supplied with plastic of thousands of years. It may form a layer in the knives and forks. Multilayers of plastic on almost every geological record of the planet, or some microbe may item we buy in the supermarkets. evolve that can digest plastic and find itself supplied with a vast food resource. In the meantime, what can we do? As a result, our oceans are slowly turning into a plastic Well, try not to buy plastic, and if you do, then recycle it, soup and the effects on ocean life are chilling. don’t just chuck it away on the lane for Dougie to pick Greenpeace report that large pieces of plastic are choking up. Help Dougie, and the rest of the planet. and entangling turtles and seabirds and tiny pieces are clogging the stomachs of creatures who mistake it for ©Patrick Marks – Snailbeach – January 2018
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The New Year may have started on 1 th January, but the Gardeners’ New SATUR DAY 17 MARCH 2018 Year starts on 3 February when the Don at ion s of Door s Open 7.00pm Trading Post opens again on Raffle Pri zes LI CENS ED Saturday mornings. We have a stock would be gr eatly (Fir st Race 7.30pm) BA R of seed potatoes ready waiting, plus appr eci at ed bean, pea and beetroot seeds, and Snailbeac h Villa ge Hall onion and shallot sets. Information on some of the characteristics of each variety will be on display at the Friends of Sti persto nes Sc hool (F OSS) are holding a Race Night to raise Trading Post, as will the prices. All fu nds fo r th e school. For th e Race Night to go ahead are available to buy loose in any we are looking fo r a Ma in Sp onsor (£ 60) fo r th e whole night and fo r Individual Race Sp onsors (£ 30 per race). quantity that you want and you can We would like to give th e local community and local businesses th e buy as many or as few as you want. opportu nity to sponsor th e night or a race. We do have bags for you to take If you would like to sponsor th e event or know someone who would be them away in, but if you can supply willing to support us please conta ct Tracy or Clare on th e number below your own it helps to keep our costs down! Horses and Jockeys can also be purchased in advance at a cost of £2 each, you will have a chance of winning a prize and get to choose th eir name! The bulk delivery of multi-purpose compost has arrived and is taking up most of the floor space. As soon as Adv ance Tic ket - Adult £6.00, Child £4.00 On the door tic ket - Adult £9.00, Child £6.00 we have sold enough to create the (Tic ket s inc lude supper of jac ket pot ato and pud ding) space we will be getting in a supply Tic ket s ar e availa ble to pur chas e from Stiper stones School, of PongarMulch – the soil Stiper stones Inn, Trac y Eggby -J ones , Clar e Bennet t or Jane improver/compost made from green Bratby waste, in the familiar yellow bags. Don’t forget that there will always be someone to help carry the bags to your car, or whatever your preferred Any donati ons of raffl e prize s will be greatl y appreciate d mode of transport is. For more deta ils please conta ct Tr acy 01743 791817 or Clare 01743 790419 Subscriptions are due for the New Year: £2, or £1 for the retired. Some dates for your diary: • The Association’s AGM will be held on Tuesday 6 March at 7.30 pm in the Len Simpson Room at the Public Hall. The business is normally concluded quickly and then followed, by wine and cheese, and an opportunity to catch up with all the people that you haven’t seen over the winter; • Spring into the Garden will be held again on the evening of Thursday 17 May in the Public Hall opening at 7.30 pm with plant sales and some new attractions; • The Annual Show will be held on Saturday 25 August, in the Public Hall. Gardening Rule: • The Trading Post, in Station Road, When weeding, the best way to make sure you are will be open every Saturday from removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. 9.30 to 12, until the end of If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant… October.
Snailbeach & District News, Issue 345 Page 19 My Stiperstones...
Everywhere I look for descriptions of the Stiperstones Chair, Manstone, Cranberry Rock, Nipstone Rock, I find words of foreboding, they are referred to as and the unofficially named Wolf Rock. On their own “ruined fortresses”, “fossil monsters”, “virile & hard”, any of these rocks would be notable, however on the “barren & jagged”, and of course Mary Webb’s Stiperstones it is The Devil’s Chair which dominates “inviolable, taciturn, evil glowering darkly in the the myths, legends and stories which have grown up dawn”. Maybe I’m biased, but I can’t help but feel around the area. Over the next few months I’m that our poor hills have received a bit of literary bad hoping to have a look at each of the stones in turn, so press. For me they have always been a joyful place. I would love to hear from anyone who knows any Whilst the climb up as a child may have often been history of, or has any personal stories about the other accompanied by a few moans & groans (I’ve always stones. been a pretty good whinger), and the climb up as an adult is accompanied by wheezes and several stops for The hills themselves have seen centuries of human a breather, I have always felt such a sense of civilisation: both bronze and iron age fortresses have achievement at reaching the top, that the stones are a been discovered here, The Snailbeach area has been place of celebration rather than foreboding. Even mined for lead and other ores since Roman times and when Old Nick is firmly sat in his chair and visibility the “Royal Hunting Forest of The Stiperstones” is is at a minimum the walk along the ridge line still recognised in the Domesday book where, like the rest leaves me firmly in my happy place. of Edric’s lands, it is given to Roger Corbet. After this the land is passed around as a bit of an afterthought Geologically I am informed (In Tom Wall’s “The for the next few hundred years until those clever Singular Stiperstones”) that the Stiperstones range industrialists came up with all sorts of uses for lead, runs from Pontesbury to Linley. The Stiperstones hills like carrying water and making paint dry quicker. themselves are in the middle of the range and the ridge line rocks run from Shepherd’s Rock (at the top As demand increased so did the interest in the hills as of Perkin’s Beach dingle) all the way to The Rock the Earls of Tankerville & Bath found themselves (Just past the shooting range). In between there are 6 happy owners of mineral rights. These minerals are major outcroppings of stones: Scattered Rock, Devil’s mostly found in the Mytton Flag layer of rocks which
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comes up to the surface in Shelve and Snailbeach, Since then the Nature Conservancy Council, English (The older buildings in the area such as the Nature and Natural England have all managed the Stiperstones Inn are mostly built of the Mytton Flag land. Keeping down the spread of bracken, fighting stone). The rocks on the ridge line of the hills are the heather beetle, reinvigorating the heather with the made of the far older and harder Stiperstones “Back To Purple” strategy and more recently fighting Quartzite and so whilst the slopes of the hills are the phytophthora fungus. Thankfully over the years all covered in old mine shafts and buildings, the top of of these well meaning professionals have had plenty the hill remains relatively unscathed with just a few of local help telling them exactly how they ought to old crumbling cottages and dry stone walls to show be running things and the hills themselves are still for the many hundreds of years of use that man has teeming with life, be it wildlife, livestock, orienteers, put the hills to. mountain bikers, local dog walkers, and of course the obligatory large wild cat. As a child I was blissfully unaware of any controversy in the area, thankfully the likes of Emily Griffiths and For me the stones of the hill have always been simply the Stiperstones Preservation Society, were fighting to home. Those craggy rocks can be seen from a protect the common rights of those who used the hills surprisingly long way away and they are always the every day, thus the conifer planting which covered first thing I look for when I climb any hill from over the Nipstone Rock area was not extended to the Monmouth to Cheshire. They were moulded by the main Stiperstones range, and the rather large BBC last ice age and have seen human beings come and aerial was sited on top of the Wrekin rather than over will probably see them go, Inviolable? - certainly, our heads here (although our TV reception might have barren? - most definitely not! been remarkably improved by this). I do however remember the grand opening of the Stiperstones as a © Lara Sproson-Jones – Stiperstones – January 2018 National Nature Reserve, (we had a day off school, and met David Bellamy and everything!). Photography by Philip Sproson-Jones
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Snailbeach & District News, Issue 345 Page 22 February 2018 NATURAL ENGLAND Notes from the hill
We are well in to the New Year now when I always think that it is worth looking back at some of the conservation successes in the area. Conservation can tend to get a bit gloomy sometimes as we hear a lot about the countries declining wildlife and uncertain times ahead. However there are a lot of people working away locally that care enough to get involved and make a difference. Even if you are just putting food out for your birds it all helps maintain our wonderful wildlife heritage. These are just a few highlights of 2017 that come to mind on and around the Stiperstones.
We managed to purchase Bergum Wood as an extension to the Stiperstones NNR, through public donations. A first for Natural England and the present conifers will start to be felled at the end of this month to make way for a new native upland oak wood.
Nightjar returned to the Stiperstones after a 13-year absence, having not been seen since 2004. Although only a calling male was heard and seen, we live in hope that it will return to breed next year.
Restoration works including the removal of conifers and the blocking of lots of drainage channels was carried out at a number of sites on and around the Stiperstones by the Shropshire Wildlife Trust run Wet Flushes project. We have already seen a good deal of snipe activity in these re-wetted areas and look forward to seeing if we get any more breeding territories in the spring. Sessile The Hay Meadow Festival ran for its second year and attracted over Oak 500 visitors, many of whom were keen to learn about scything and our fantastic flower-rich hay meadows.
The Curlew Country Project with the help of local farmers saw 30 curlew chicks hatch with at least 6-9 successfully fledged young, which was a huge leap forward from the zero success rates that had been recorded in the two previous years.
The Landscape Partnership Scheme’s Rescuing Rocks and Relics Project opened up a lot of important butterfly sites through the removal of scrub, which should see a benefit next year in building the populations of some of our special butterflies such as grayling and grizzled skipper.
The Rea Valley Community Wildlife Group continued to monitor the success of the nest box project at Resting Hill, with eight broods of pied flycatchers and of course the two dormice nests.
The Stepping Stones Project which is looking at the wider connectivity of habitats across this landscape, has been taken on by the National Trust as one of their major projects in the region and we look forward to seeing how this develops over the coming years.
Simon Cooter for Natural England staff at Rigmoreoak.
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Snailbeach & District News, Issue 345 Page 24 February 2018 Letter from Westminster Heather Kidd’s Report February 2018 February 2018
As readers may know, last month I left my position as Minister of GRIT BINS. We are not out of the State for Health, as part of the Prime Minister’s reshuffle. woods yet this winter and we could see It was a tremendous honour to serve in Government since 2010 – more snow and ice. The Council have first as a Government Whip until 2012, followed by Minister for been re-filling grit bins over the last Defence Procurement until 2016, and then as Minister of State for week or so but if you know of any still Health for the past 18 months. empty, let me know. Following the announcement, I was heartened to receive so many LIBRARIES. The Library strategy kind words from constituents about my time in office. Serving as review has now been accepted by a Minister is a remarkable experience for any MP. It provides an Shropshire Councils Cabinet. The Library van will be reducing opportunity to effect real change on a national scale, while sharing its stops in some areas in future. Ask your Library van for responsibility for the government’s work and helping deliver details of this. The ‘Tier 2’ Libraries of Bishop’s Castle and reform to improve people’s lives. It requires commitment and Pontesbury will have to be self-supporting by 2022/23. energy, and at times can be frustrating when the system proves HEALTH. As we go to press Future Fit, the programme that is slow to turn – but when you succeed in making changes you know meant to shape the future of health care in Shropshire, is on it can make a real difference. hold. Another 12 week consultation is due to start in the near For me, personal highlights include being able to undertake work future. to enable the launch of our new aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Stiperstones School OFSTED carried out 10th January. This Elizabeth - whose commissioning ceremony I was able to attend was carried out under the new inspection process which began just before Christmas – and putting in place more routes into this year. Schools keep their grading unless there is a serious nursing, so more people can achieve their dream of becoming an problem. The inspection appeared to go well but the final NHS nurse. decision letter will not be received for about 2 weeks. We I am proud of the role I was able to play in working for both would also like to welcome Ms Dione Rondel, the new class1 David Cameron and Theresa May as Prime Ministers, and their teacher who has settled in quickly and faced OFSTED after Secretaries of State, in seeking to make Britain a fairer country only 8 days in school! with opportunity for all. I had the good fortune to work with some COUNCIL TAX - £9m shortfall. It looks likely that Shropshire talented Ministers, outstanding civil servants and dedicated NHS Council's Cabinet will have to take £9m out of reserves just to staff and Armed Forces personnel, whom I would like to thank for make ends meet. Council tax is also due to be raised by 5.9%. their stalwart support in both the Department of Health and All this will still not be enough to tackle the County's problems Ministry of Defence. - services will continue to decline and the state of our roads Following my resignation, I returned to the backbenches, will continue to deteriorate. somewhat surprised by the sense of liberation I felt personally, but Best wishes, also with optimism for the future. My main purpose since first elected in 2005 has been to serve the people of South Shropshire, Heather Kidd, and my determination to do so is unchanged. I now have greater control of my own diary, and therefore more Shropshire Councillor for Chirbury and Worthen Division time, as well as the ability to speak on any topic on the floor of the House of Commons - which Government Whips cannot do at 07980635518 all, and Ministers only on their area of responsibility. This should allow me to be a little more visible in fighting our corner more [email protected] directly. Indeed, at my first opportunity from the backbenches on www.heatherkidd.org.uk the day after I left the Government, I was able to use my new found freedom in the House to raise the importance of our community hospitals in South Shropshire. I shall continue to support the Government’s work to deliver Brexit alongside sound economic policies and important reforms that benefit us here in South Shropshire. The wider reshuffle has injected fresh talent into the Government and Conservative Party. I look forward to seeing how they continue the vital work of improving the quality of life for all of us. As ever, I am always be happy to take up cases on behalf of constituents. So please do feel free to email me at [email protected] to raise any issues or concerns.
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Snailbeach & District News, Issue 345 Page 26 February 2018 Planning Applications Snailbeach or & Decisions Stiperstones? Reference: 18/00015/TCA Alternative Reference: Not Available Application Validated: Tue 02 Jan 2018 Below are 12 clues that are dictionary Address: Shropshire Mines Trust definitions. The answer to each clue is The Locomotive Shed to be found in either the word Snailbeach Shropshire SY5 0NS ‘Snailbeach’ or ‘Stiperstones’. What are Proposal: Various works to trees the answers and which village supplied within Snailbeach it? Conservation Area Status: Awaiting decision Appeal Status: Unknown 1) An unmarried woman Appeal Decision: Not Available 2) Hidden gunman 3) A French wine. ******** 4) Female family member Reference: 17/06019/FUL 5) Australian woman Alternative Reference: PP-06608559 6) Wound protection Application Validated: Fri 05 Jan 2018 Address: Proposed Dwelling To 7) Breed of dog The North Of 8) Group similar things Stiperstones Snailbeach 9) Artificial waterway Shropshire Proposal: Erection of dwelling and 10) Continue firmly detached garage 11) A connected flexible series Status: Awaiting decision 12) Shallow recess in a wall Appeal Status: Unknown Appeal Decision: Not Available 11) A connected flexible series 12) Shallow recess in a wall ********
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FR IDAY 2nd FE BRUARY 2018 Door s Open from 6.45pm (Eyes Down 7.30pm)
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THE U NIV ERSIT Y OF THE THIR D AGE
P onte sbury a nd R ea V alle y D is tric t Br anc h
U3A is for tho se who ar e retir ed or semi-r etir ed. This local Branch was formed in March 2017 and has now has over 120 members through out the Rea Valley. There is a small subscription upon joining (currently £ 7.50). Ther eaf ter , al l par ticipatio n in study and activity gr oups is free. Presently, there are some 17 gr oups, as follows: Ti metable of Active Interest Groups Mond ay Fa mily History.(2) Art h is tory & Ap pre cia tion. (3) Walking 1 ( <3 miles).(F) Ta ble Te nnis.(1) (3) Hi st or y (3) Play Reading. (1) (3) Fo lk Music.(F) Tu esday Ta i Chi (W eekly) Local Hi st or y.(3) Painting & Drawing. (2) (4) We dnesday Geology . Engl ish Literature. (2) (1) Gardening & Garden Visits.(F) Thursday Walking 2 (6+ miles).(F) Ita lia n. (2) (4) Writing (1) (3) Frid ay As tronomy .(L) “Photogr aphy”, “IT”, “Chess” and “Pontesbury from the (F) Fortnigh tly Inside Looking Out” are being considered (L) Last week o f mo nth New members are gu aranteed a warm welcome. It becomes your U3A . To join us, or to receive an e-mail copy of our Newsletter, contact [email protected] m Te l 01743 790403.
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Snailbeach & District News, Issue 345 Page 30 February 2018 GK: Wayne WALTON © Snailbeach White Stars DEF: Chris CARSWELL, Owen MORRIS, Sam PRICE Match Reports MID: Joe BYERS, Craig GRIFFITHS, Dan CAMBURN, Kyle PURSLOW, Calum BENNETT Snailbeach White Stars 6-0 Harlescott Rangers ATT: Jamie HYNE, Marcus ASHLEY SUBS: Jack BREEZE SUMMARY: A convincing but not particularly GOAL SCORERS: Jamie HYNE (2), Marcus ASHLEY entertaining win to make it six wins from six games in the league. The lads never really got out of second gear MAN OF THE MATCH: Owen MORRIS – Steady and but did enough to ensure the three points were secured. assured in the heart of the back 3. Comfortable in We fielded a strong team from the off to ensure the job possession and his usual reliable self when a few had got done and we can now focus on a big County Cup poorer games than usual. encounter in Telford next week. Snailbeach White Stars 2-0 Saha TEAM: GK: Wayne WALTON SUMMARY: A very strange game. We went a goal up DEF: Ben MILLINGTON, Danny JONES, Owen through Danny Jones early on before Sam Jones got sent MORRIS off in the twentieth minute for a reckless challenge. After MID: Joe BYERS, Kyle PURSLOW, Jamie HYNE, that, the boys dug in and ground out a massive three Craig GRIFFITHS, Sam JONES points to continue our 100% record. Captain Adam ATT: Marcus ASHLEY, Adam DAVIES © Davies sealed the victory with a well struck left footed SUBS: Chris CARSWELL, Kieran JONES, Sam PRICE, effort. Calum BENNETT GOAL SCORERS: Adam DAVIES (2), Kyle TEAM: PURSLOW, Sam JONES, Joe BYERS, Calum GK: Wayne WALTON BENNETT DEF: Ben MILLINGTON, Danny JONES, Owen MORRIS MAN OF THE MATCH: Kyle PURSLOW – A proper MID: Joe BYERS, Kyle PURSLOW, Jamie HYNE, box to box midfielders display. Won nearly every duel in Craig GRIFFITHS, Sam JONES the middle of the park, was constantly on the ball looking ATT: Marcus ASHLEY, Adam DAVIES © to create and topped off his performance with a well SUB: Jack BREEZE, Chris CARSWELL, Kieran struck goal from range. JONES, Dan CAMBURN, Calum BENNETT GOAL SCORERS: Danny JONES, Adam DAVIES Bulls Head Dawley 2-3 Snailbeach White Stars MAN OF THE MATCH: Danny JONES – After falling SUMMARY: Worst performance of the season against a down to ten men early on all the team had to play their very poor side on a surface that should have suited our part in ensuring we gained maximum, particularly the players. Very disjointed and not helped by some simply defence. All of the boys at the back played well but dreadful officiating. Luckily we snuck through to the Danny got the votes for a gutsy performance and quarter-finals by the skin of our teeth! occasionally flattening the opposing forwards when required! TEAM:
Football Bloopers “The last player to score a hat-trick in a cup final was Stan Mortenson. He even had a final named after him, the Matthews final.” Lawrie McMenemy “I felt a lump in my mouth as the ball went in.” Terry Venables “We have been saying this, both pre-season and before the season started.” Len Ashurst “It was a fair decision, the penalty, even though it was debatable whether it was inside or outside the box.” Bobby Charlton
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St. Luke’s Church, Snailbeach Recipe of the Month Easter Lily Savory Pancakes with Cheese & Ham
St Luke’s Church, Preparation time: less than 30 mins Snailbeach invite you to Cooking time: 10 to 30 mins sponsor an Easter lily in Serves: 2-3 memory of your loved one. The flowers will be displayed Why stick to lemon and sugar when these savoury in the church with a log of pancakes can kick off a night of batter-based feasting? people’s names over the Flippin' marvellous! Easter period. Ingredients: 100g/3½ oz Emmental, For the pancakes: grated The cost is £5 per memory and names of your 55g/2oz plain flour Freshly ground black loved ones will be read out at our Easter Pinch of salt pepper, to taste Sunday service on 1st April at 9am. 1 free-range egg To top: You are invited to join us. 140ml/5fl oz milk 3 spring onions, finely Oil for frying sliced Please use the form below, or one in the For the cheese sauce: 4 sun-dried tomatoes in church. Completed forms can be put in the 25g/1oz butter oil, drained and chopped church donation box or contact 25g/1oz plain flour 80g/3oz good quality Carol McMillan 01743 791 605. 225ml/8fl oz milk smoked ham St Luke’s Church, Snailbeach Easter Lilies Method: I would like to remember ▪ Sift the flour and salt into a large bowl. Whisk together the egg and milk in another bowl then, slowly ...... pouring the liquid into the dry ingredients, whisk together until the batter is smooth. Set aside. £...... donation enclosed. ▪ For the cheese sauce, melt the butter in a small pan, then whisk in the flour. Cook for one minute, then gradually add the milk whisking continuously. Bring to the boil and reduce the heat to a simmer for one minute Tale of Friendship until the sauce is thick and smooth. Stir in half of the Terry Markland and his friend Ken Stokes left the Royal cheese and season with black pepper. Navy in 2002 after several years of serving together. ▪ To make the pancakes, heat a 20cm/8in crêpe or They were well used to having a glass or two of ale omelette pan until very hot, drizzle in a small amount of together at the end of a long working day. On leaving oil and tip the pan to swirl the oil around. Ladle in about the RN, Terry went to live in Plymouth and his friend returned to his home area of Newcastle. They promised two tablespoons of batter mix and immediately tilt the each other that whenever they went out for a beer they pan from side to side to get a thin, even layer of batter to would order two pints at a time as a way of remembering cover the base of the pan. Cook for around 30 seconds their friendship. until the underside is golden then flip or turn with a Terry drank for many years in The Star in Plymouth and pallet knife. each day at 1800 hours he would order and drink 2 pints of bitter. Dermot, the landlord, commented to Terry on ▪ As soon as the pancake is turned scatter over this practice and Terry naturally told him the story. This some ham, spring onions and sundried tomatoes. Spoon went on for some 16 years, every day. over some cheese sauce then top with a scattering of the Last week Terry entered The Star and only ordered one remaining cheese. pint of bitter. ▪ Once you’ve topped the pancake the underside Shocked and a trifle worried and anxious, Dermot enquired whether Ken had passed away hence no need will be done. Fold the pancake in half then slip it out of for the second pint. the pan onto a warmed serving plate and keep warm 'Oh no' replied Terry, 'I've given up drinking.' under some foil while you make the remaining pancakes.
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Snailbeach & District News, Issue 345 Page 34 February 2018 Waste Collection Schedule February Useful Numbers Tue 6th Tue 13th Tue 20th Tue 27th Recycling Recycling Shrewsbury Hospital Garden Garden Boxes Boxes 01743 261 000 Waste Waste Rubbish Rubbish Shrop Doc March 0333 222 6655 Tue 6th Tue 13th Tue 20th Tue 27th Recycling Recycling Garden Garden Boxes Boxes Pontesbury Medical Waste Waste Rubbish Rubbish 01743 790 325
Mobile Post Office Opening Times Worthen Medical Wednesdays 9. 30am - 12. 30pm 01743 891 401 Perkins Beach Methodist Church, Stiperstones Post Office telephone number: Pontesbury Chemist 08457 22 33 44 (central customer services) 01743 790 273
Stiperstones Stores Opening Times Police Approximately 9.00 am / 8pm Daily 0300 333 3000 The Stiperstones Inn, Stiperstones Tel. 01743 790 594 Severn Trent Wate r 0800 783 4444 .. all. ning Eve Western Power 0800 328 1111 Your Safer Neighbourhood Team are: PC 3233 Anne Gutteridge - PCSO 6160 Shaun CullissPCSO 40274 Harry Horlock Briti sh Telecom Local Police Team: 01743 264777 0800 023 2023 (Not to be used for reporting crime, incidents or emergencies) CRIME/INCIDENTS TO NOTE REPORTED Stiperstones Primary CHIRBURY, WORTHEN, HOPE, SHELVE & STIPERSTONES 01743 791 207
CRIME/ INCIDEN TS TO NOTE REPO RTED CHIRBURY, WORTHEN , HOPE, SH EL VE & ST IPER ST ONES Minsterley Motors 14 th December 2017 – 14 th January 2018 01743 791 208 CRIME REPO RTED DET AILS LOCA TION NOTES
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Village Hall Bookings
F 01743 791 633 Snail be a ch V ill ag e Ha ll Snailbeach Village Hall Booking Fees Stiperstones Oil Coordinator 01743 792 204 HIRE CHARGES FOR PLEDGE SCHEME MEMBERS AND LOCAL COMMUNITY GROUP S Community groups/activities Normal rate ( £) Pledge Rate ( £) (per session of up to 4 hours day or 6 hours evening) 20.00 12.50 Snailbeach & District News Private hire for meetings as above 30.00 20.00 01743 790 049 Hire of hall and all catering facilities 40.00 25.00 Hire of hall with full bar facilities 80.00 60.00 Stiperstones Stores 01743 790 594 To book the Village Hall please contact Marg Price on 01743 791 633
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Minsterley Motors
We offer reliable and comfortable coach travel with our modern fleet of coaches and service buses which have seating capacities ranging from 29 to 53 seats.
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Minsterley Motors is a family run business and has been an estab - lished part of the Shrop - shire scene for many years.
If it's a friendly and efficient service you are looking for, you need not look further than Minsterley Motors.
We will be delighted to provide you with a comprehensive quotation at guaranteed prices for all types of coach hire and coach travel, and for any size of group.
Contacts
Telephone:
01743 791 208 (8am - 5pm Monday to Friday)
Email Address: john@ minsterleymotors.co. uk
Website: www.minsterleymotors.co.uk
Snailbeach & District News, Issue 345 Page 37 February 2018 Baptist Services Methodist Services
Sunday services: 10.30am & 3.00pm Prayer Meeting/Bible Study Wednesday 7.15pm Held in the Mission Room, Snailbeach Snailbeach Methodist Services Elder: Mr Joe Evans 01743 790 979 All are welcome! February 2018
Quaker Meetings 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th, February Shrewsbury Quaker Meeting House Corporation Lane, Coton Hill, Services at 2.45 p.m. Shrewsbury, SY1 2NU 10.30am every Sunday Everyone welcome Clun Valley Quaker Meeting The Community Centre Grange Road, Bishop’s Castle 10. 30am every Sunday.
Stiperstones Group – C of E Service Rota February 2018
Date Habberley Hope Minsterley Shelve Snailbeach St Mary’s Holy Trinity Holy Trinity All Saints St Luke’s
1st Sunday 10.30 am 9.00am 4th February Holy Communion Morning Prayer 2nd Sunday before Lent Green Revd Giles Revd Giles
2nd Sunday 6.30pm 10.30am 10.30am 11th February BCP Holy Communion All Age Communion + Sunday next before Lent Evening Prayer Baptism of George Jones Green Revd Giles Revd Christine Revd Giles
Ash Wednesday 7.30pm 14th February Holy Communion With Imposition of Ashes
Revd Giles & Revd Pam ! Purple
3rd Sunday 10.30 am 9.00am 18th February Holy Communion Holy Communion Lent 1 Revd Giles Revd Giles Purple
4th Sunday 10.30am 9.00am 10.30 am 25th February Holy Communion Morning Prayer Holy Communion Lent 2 Purple Revd Giles Revd Pam Revd Pam
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Hand in your colouring into The Stiperstones Inn and I will give a prize for my favourite Dave!
Dont forget to put your name & Age Ages 1 - 111 accepted! u k Good Luck & Good colouring! o Phil xxx d u S
Dave Colouring Snailbeach & District News, Issue 345 Page 39 February 2018
If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegie
What’s On... How to make a wildlife pond Talk by Jenny Steel Tuesday 6th February Snailbeach Village Hall The talk is free Doors open at 7pm.
Bingo Night Stiperstones School Friday 2nd Feb Doors 6.45 – eyes down 7.30 40p. per book
Bishop’s Castle Arts Festival Wednesday – Sunday February 21-25
T he Pontesbury Players Panto Dick Whittington Pontesbury Public Hall 31st Jan – 3rd. Feb Tickets from £3
Look up at the stars and There is only one corner not down at your feet. Try of the universe you can be to make sense of what you certain of improving, and see, and wonder about that's your own self. what makes the universe exist. Be curious. Aldous Huxley Stephen Hawking
Editor: Patrick Marks - Editor. [email protected] Publisher: Philip J Sproson-Jones or drop things into the Stiperstones Inn by the 20th of each month.
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