Lorraine Wilson Around the Combe From the comfort of your living room, all the news …. from Around the Combe!! £ free Edition 13. February 2016 Inside Welcome to Around the Combe Welcome to the first Around the SPONSORED BY Local Churches 2 Combe of 2016. We Heritage 3 hope you all had a love- ly Christmas break. Council news 4 Disability / carers 5 We thought things might be quiet See page 10 Education 9 after the Christmas period but no - we have been absolutely over- the fist Friday of the following Enterprise 10 whelmed with articles, events, ad- month. Fundraising 11 verts and other information - we could probably have filled the We have lots of great plans for Entertainment 12 magazine twice over yet again. A 2016 - we are hoping to complete Home corner 15 huge thank you to all contributors our charity registration which will Natural world 16 for your continued support. enable us to apply for other sourc- es of funding - we will keep you Help & Advice 18 Just a reminder that the deadline posted as to our progress. Older people 19 for submitting information is 18th See you next month! Health 20 of each month, for publication on Sport 26 Leisure 29 News and Events from your area: Waberthwaite 29 Bootle 29 Silecroft 30 Millom 30 You can contact us for more information on how to submit an idea for a Green / Thwaites 31 feature or news story, to publicise an event or to advertise in Around the The Hill 31 Combe, via our website: www.around-the-combe.co.uk, via the Around the Broughton 32 Combe group on Facebook or via the following people: Jenny Brumby: [email protected] / Mob 07793613557 Jenn Jakubowski: [email protected] / Mob 07725 360 499 Karen Jackson-Smith: [email protected] See our website for more information: www.around-the-combe.co.uk Local Churches 2 Regular Activities Community Church Network Centre Friday: History term (1st Friday), 7.30pm Salvation Army Nelson Street Sunday: Service, 10.30am Monday: Ladies Bible Study, 12.30pm Catholic Church Queen Street Sunday: Prayers, 10 am Thursday: Little Stars (term time only), Awaiting information 9.30am Sunday: Service, 5.30 pm THE BENEFICE OF MILLOM Last Saturday: Branch & Activities for Monday: Smiley Tots, 9.30 am; Home The Church of England in & family worship, 1.30 pm Children with disabilities, 11am to 1pm Millom with Haverigg and Tuesday: Lunch Club, 12.30 pm Tuesday to Friday: Prayer Meeting, Thwaites Wednesday: Drop in, 8.30 am - 12 7.00pm www.millomchurchofengland.org.uk noon House groups also meet please contact Millom Baptist Church Crown Church for details Our regular Sunday services are: Street Methodist Church Queen Street St George's, Millom, 9.30am, Holy Sunday: Service, Sunday School and Communion Sunday: Service, 11.00am st Holy Trinity, Millom, 9.45am, Holy crèche, 11am (new time from Jan 1 ). Tuesday: Jack & Jill (term time only), Communion Tuesday: Coffee Morning, 10am to 11.00am St Anne's, Thwaites, 11.00am, Holy 12am Tuesday: Meeting point 2nd and 4th, Communion in Thwaites Village Hall Wednesday: Top Tots, 9.45am 2.00pm in the winter Wednesday: Art group, 2.00pm Wednesday: (term time only) Girls St Luke's, Haverigg, 11.15am, Holy First Friday: Men's Group, 7.30-pm Brigade, 6.00pm Communion or Morning Worship First Saturday: Prayer Meeting, Wednesday: (monthly) Bible Study, 9.00am 7.30pm For Christenings & Weddings contact Last Monday: M3 Guide Hall, 7.00pm Thursday: Parents & Toddlers, 10.00am Revd Clive Shaw 772889, Revd Carl Thursday: Crochet & Craft, 1.30pm Carter 774427. House groups also meet. Friday: Coffee Morning, 9.30am Friday: Guides (term time only), 6.00pm Blackcombe Churches (Bootle, Corney, Whitbeck & Whicham) Date Day Bootle Corney Whicham Whitbeck 7th February Holy Communion 11:00 Holy Communion 9:00 10th February Ash Wednesday 11:00 14th February Morning Prayer 11:00 Evening Prayer 16:00 21st February Evening Prayer 16:00 Family Service 11:00 28th February Holy Communion 9:30 Family Service 11:00 Bootle Evangelical Church (in association with Rural Ministries) Benefice Website: www.blackcombechurches.co.uk Sunday Services: Mornings at 10:45am Lent Lunches: Communion service 2nd Sunday of the month Evenings at 6pm Wed 17th Feb Bootle Chapel Communion Service 4th Sunday of the Month Wed 24th Feb Silecroft Village Hall Wed 2nd March Bootle Chapel Weekly Events Wed 9th March Silecroft Village Hall Monday: Light lunch, 11:45am-1pm (first Monday of the month only) Wed 16th March Bootle Chapel Tuesday: Coffee morning, 10am-12am. Wed 23rd March Corney Village Hall Parents and toddlers, 1-3pm (term-time only) Wednesday: Internet Drop-in, 10am-12am For Christenings & Weddings contact Bible Study: 7pm for 7:30pm Revd Allen Banks on 01946 61470. Friday: Model Railway Club, 6:30pm-8:30pm Saturday: Prayer time in the Church, 8:15am Contact Pastor Roy Fisher, The Manse, Beck Brow, Bootle. Tel 718186 Church news Heritage 3 News from THE BENEFICE Celebrating 150 years of OF MILLOM Millom Newtown The Church of England in Millom with Many people in Millom today still have memories of Haverigg and Thwaites Millom Ironworks. The Ironworks first furnaces were www.millomchurchofengland.org.uk completed in 1866 and many people came from all over the country and surrounding areas looking for work. One such family were the Heeley family who ‘All Together’ starts on Sunday 7th February at 11am at previously were steel workers from Rotherham before St Georges. A new informal and child friendly service with they started at Millom Iron works and the head of the lunch for everyone afterwards. ‘All Together’ will be on the family was William Heeley. Mr Heeley is said to have first Sunday morning of every month. On these Sundays carted the first pig iron out of Millom Iron works. there will be Holy Communion at 6pm at Holy Trinity Church. Come and try something different! Some of the earliest properties to be built in Newtown were beer houses, hotels and inns. The Crown Inn of Thank you to all who visited St George’s Christmas Tree Lord street was the first of the drinking houses and Festival. We are delighted that over £1300 was raised to was built in 1867. Others included the Ironworks Ho- support general maintenance and the heating fund. From tel, the Furness Hotel, the Royal Albert Hotel, the the Christingle Service on Christmas Eve we were able to Miners Arms, the Devonshire Arms and the Peel send £257 to the Children’s Society, with further donations Hotel. After a hard day's work, it would have been from Haverigg School & St Lukes. hard not to pass one of these without calling in for a pint on the way home from work. It has been suggested that a ‘Friends of St George’s Church’ be set up to offer practical skills and fund-raising Some of the families would have lived in make shift ideas for the maintenance and improvement of the build- huts until the new builds were erected. In 1866 the ing. Churchwarden Ray Cole 774378 would be interested building of a new lighthouse at Hodbarrow was com- to hear from anyone who would like to be involved in this pleted by the Hodbarrow Mining Company. It was venture. erected to guide ships to the dock. John Brown will be stepping down soon as verger for Skipping forward a hundred years the town's popula- funerals and weddings at St Georges. We would like to tion was 10,997 in 1967 but had dropped to 7,101 in thank him for his dedication to this role over a considerable 1971 due to the closure of the Ironworks and Hodbar- period. It primarily involves preparing the church including row mines which led to people moving away to find switching on heating in advance, greeting people at the new employment. door, tidying up afterwards, and above all being flexible regarding availability at short notice, as is the nature of If anybody has any information, photos or items relat- funerals. There is a small honorarium. Again please con- ing to the early days of Millom Newtown we could put tact Ray Cole on 774378 if you can help, or know someone another article together later in the year. Please con- who can. tact Duane Farren on Millom 01229 771838. Thankyou Above: Mr William Heeley with his horse Right: the lighthouse at Hodbarrow. Heritage 4 provided by Lynne. Mike Kelly (who Memories of Steel Margaret regularly visited Haverigg was the Mayor in 1991 on the 50th Green 1941 - 2016 churchyard and visited friends here anniversary of the bombing).was in Janice Brown until her death. attendance with his wife Kath, On Saturday January 2nd it was the 75 year anniversary of the bombing Recently, Lynne Wilkinson organised A huge thank you to all who attend- of Steel Green, with 5 lives lost: the cleaning and re lettering of the ed on the day in the atrocious weath- Stephen Bolton (62) Geldert memorial stone. Lynne's Mam er conditions, especially the Date John Morgan (56) (my auntie), our Great Grandad (Tom children 6 generations down the line, And 3 members of the Geldert family Riley) Grandma and Grandad Atkin- Steel Greeners who braved the - William (51) his wife Isabella (43) son lived at 16 Steel Green. My 4 year weather and walked from Millom to and their 17 year old son William. old sister Sheila was staying there the attend. Their daughter Margaret was stay- night of the bombing and thankfully ing with friends in Millom on this they all survived.