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“Where quality & service still count ...” www.alidehire.co.uk UNITED BENEFICE OF PUBLOW WITH PENSFORD Directory of Local Organisations COMPTON DANDO AND CHELWOOD Bath & North East Somerset Chelwood Mr R. Nicholl 01275 332122 Council ComptonDando Miss S. Davis 472356 Rector: Revd Canon John Simpson 490221 Publow Mr P. Edwards 01275 892128 The Rectory, Old Rd, Pensford B&NES Information Switchboard 01225 477000 Bristol Airport (Noise Concerns) 01275 473799 Chelwood Parish Council Chairman Mr P. Sherborne 490586 Reader: Mrs Noreen Busby 452939 Chelwood Bridge Rotary Club Tony Quinn 490080 Compton Dando Parish Chairman Ms T. Mitchell 01179 860791 Council Clerk Adrian Rogers 470361 Churchwardens: Compton Dando CA Liz Stanbury 490487 Publow with Pensford: Mr Andrew Hillman 490324 Publow Parish Council Chairman Mr A.J Heaford 490271 Mrs Janet Smith 490584 Clerk Mrs J. Bragg 01275 333549 Compton Dando: Mr David Brunskill 490449 Pensford School Headteacher Ms L. McIsaac 490470 490323 Chair of Governors Mr D. Evans 490521 Mrs Fiona Gregg-Smith Chelwood Village Hall Bookings Mr Pat Harrison 490218 Chelwood: Mr Don Weston 490245 Compton Dando Parish Hall Bookings Mrs Fox 490955 Mrs Ann Sherborne 490586 Pensford Memorial Hall Chairman Terry Phillips 490426 Bookings Judie Smith 490178 Publow with Pensford PCC: Benefice Mother’s Union Enrol. Member Anne Hall 490653 Secretary: Mrs Judith Hillman 490324 Chew Valley Gardening Society Liz Heaford 490271 Treasurer: 490336 Compton Dando Ladies Group Katherine Bunyan 490636 Mrs Gillian Wookey Marksbury & District Playgroup Leader Joanne Groves 479449 Compton Dando & Chelwood PCC: Pensford Brownies DebbieTaylor 01275 333091 Secretary: Lorna Howarth 490644 Pensford Evergreens Robert Bailey 490639 Treasurer Mr Duncan Ross 492913 Pensford Football Steve Harrison 07891 635661 Organists: Pensford Guides Rachael Dando 490663 Publow with Pensford: Mr Martin Sussams 490221 Pensford Golf Society Chairman David Parnell 490888 Compton Dando and Chelwood 471618 Pensford Local History Group Therese Tyson 490670 Mr Mervyn Cox Pensford Ladies Group Penny Cross 01275 333823 Pensford Tennis Club Secretary Alison Patey 01275 832201 Pensford Toddlers Group Sara Box 451561 Pensford with Publow WI President Mrs S. Baber 01179 869493 Secretary Mrs M. Bailey 490639 Church Services Police Community Support Officers Mr Martyn Bragg 07825 103289 Stanton Drew & Pensford Playgroup Leader Lynne Willmott 07515 712545 1st & 3rd Sundays Village Agent Ken Webb 01275 333700 Chelwood 8.00am : Publow 9.30am : Compton Dando 11.15am All copy via e-mail: [email protected]

2nd Sunday Any text should be in word doc . Pictures, adverts & photos in jpg or pdf Cheques should be made payable to - Chew Valley East News Publow 9.30am : Chelwood 11.15am : Compton Dando 6.00pm Editor: Pauline Parnell, Stonehouse, Publow Lane, Pensford 490888 e-mail: [email protected] Invoicing: Yvonne Phillips, Stonecroft, Old Rd, Pensford 490426 4th Sunday Treasurer: Kate Matthews, 12 Church Rd. Norton Malreward 01275 891275 Distribution: Geoff Rogers, Woollard House, Woollard 490269 Chelwood 9.30am : Compton 11.15am : Publow 6.00pm Yvonne Phillips, as above Dando Barbara Bowes 490285 Bobby Roberts 490481 5th Sunday www.publow-with-pensford-pc.gov.uk www.comptondando-parishcouncil.org.uk 10.00am Benefince Service as advertised Items in this Magazine do not necessarily reflect the views of the Rector and PCC. Leaves from the Rector’s Diary 29 June Craft Fayre at St Leonard’s. It seemed so simple an idea: get the village people to display some of their craft work in St Leonard’s and the Village Hall, and the people came, paid and admired. It seems almost unbelievable that so much talented work had been done in this small parish. 30 June Just as well we did not worship in St Leonard’s today; there was no room to swing a thurible, which I would love to do, or even a cat. This last phrase perhaps, say some, is Langford Farm Organic Beef �� naval slang for punishment with a cat- o- nine tails, and dates from 1665. The cat – o- nine Our delicious local organic beef is tails dates from 1695 so that theory is suspect. Similarly why do many Anglicans get a bit available to order fresh each month or �� touchy over the use of incense? Is it a bit of anti-catholic feeling or is it a fear of asthma, in boxes for your freezer of 5kg or 10kg from which our Roman Catholic friends never seem to suffer? They say that we’ll have to containing a selection of different cuts, get used to it for according to the Bible there’s a lot of it wafting around in heaven. joints and steaks. Buying by the box �� 3 July Called to see Angela Fraser, our Deanery Youth worker at her Clevedon home. She saves you around 20% but we can also has had a lot to face with her treatment for cancer, and has been constantly in our thoughts. Angela, however, seemed to maintain her usual bouncy attitude to life. We are managing cater for your individual requirements �� to run Tea Time Madness without her input, which is probably what she is employed to do Delivery is free within 6 miles – enable and train other people to do young people’s work. She is missed and we shall of the farm or collection direct �� welcome her back when she is fit. from the farm can be arranged 6 July Bit of a marathon day – Communion for a good number of folk in St Thomas a For further information contact �� Becket’s tower; then Church Market, then a Publow wedding, and straight on to Compton Charlie and Teresa Dando’s Fete, and ending up at an open air Prom Concert in Keynsham. Home to bed, tired, but contented; I’ve always liked hard work, but is it wise to have four services to prepare Telephone: (07568) 540970 and then to conduct in the morning? In many country Benefices people are encouraged www.langfordfarmorganic.co.uk �� to pool resources, economise (in winter) and be prepared to move to whichever church is Email: [email protected] hosting the worship on any particular Sunday. It may well be a pattern in the future. Langford Farm, Woollard Lane, 14 July A full Publow church for a Baptism during this morning’s Eucharist; then a large Woollard, BS39 4HT �� number for a BBQ in the churchyard, and ending with a Village Songs of Praise on the Green at Compton Dando. People came in large numbers today, praise the Lord, but we MICHAEL W. ROWE could not sustain it every week. In the meantime, teas were being served all afternoon in St Mary’s. This is Joy’s idea, and she reckons to raise £500 by the end of the season. St Augustine’s And All Saints is now open at the weekends. The experiment is proving successful. I have FUNERAL DIRECTOR noticed that having an open church is basically a “Catholic” idea. Protestants, especially nonconformists, and evangelical churches do not open their buildings outside worship A local family business times. It’s not just a matter of security, it is probably a failure to understand that many people are moved to prayer by a well appointed church building. I think that perhaps we must move Medical Practice offering on the demonstrate what the building is for, and somehow present Jesus Christ and begin the explain the Christian Faith to the casual or to the interested visitor. personal service 28 July The Keynsham Group joined us for Choral Evensong this evening, and we had some magnificent singing from the enlarged choir. It was all very encouraging – well, I found it so. Preached on “Twisting God’s Arm” which in our prayers we sometimes think we are 0117 986 2343 day or night trying to do. 4 August “Glimpses of Pensford” was a new venture and what a wonderful atmosphere. 4 Station Road Rest Room People seemed to enjoy the two days in All Saints. Many visitors came, and most remarked on the welcome and the friendship. That’s the spirit. And at the end of the day £1,800 was KEYNSHAM Tunbridge Cottage banked. The Rectory becomes Travelodge for the coming month as family and friends come to stay in rapid succession. I won’t bore you with trip details – a Gromit Hunt in Bristol, BS31 2BN Tunbridge Road The Zoo, Weymouth Beach, Pecorama at Beer near Seaton, and much more – and all that Chew Magna includes many dog walks in the locality. We are fortunate to live in such an area. NHS General Practice covering 20 August AugustA DAC visit to Charlton Mackrell this morning. There I discovered a unique 16c pew end with a carving of a devilkin, Tittivilus by name. The devil appointed Pensford, Compton Dando him to visit priests where they and their congregations gabbled services and sang to their and surrounding villages Tel No own glory and not to the glory of God. He collected and listed their sins on a scroll, which New patients welcome he carried. Tiitivilus has a pig’s face, cloven feet and a tail. Let me know if you see him any 01275 332565 Sunday. From the Parish Registers of All Saints’ Publow GLIMPSES OF PENSFORD Baptism The Glimpses of Pensford Floral and the displays, purchasing from the different 14th July Noah Samuel Henry BAMFORD Craft display took place in All Saints’ stalls or enjoying the refreshments. Holy Matrimony Church on 3/4 August. There were 9 The plant, cakes, preserves and different 22nd June Shaun David VOWLES and Natalie Louise DERRICK displays, arranged by members of the craft stalls did a brisk trade. A delightful 6th July Luigi Roberto FAGNANI and Natalie Susan BRAIN congregation depicting activities and tapestry cushion was raffled and there 13th July Warren Matthew DAVISON and Katie Lianne VILE organisations in our locality: mining, were conducted tours of the bell tower Interment of Ashes horse riding and farming to local affording spectacular views of the local 4th June Beryl Mavis MARKHAM hostelries, the village shop, Mothers’ landscape from the top. Union, WI, church market and Pensford The weekend was a resounding success TOWER TEA PARTY 2013 Primary School. Visitors expressed their and £1800.63 was raised for church Everything ready and all set pleasure at the interesting, amusing and funds. Sincere thanks go to all those BUT ! I’m sure it’s going to be wet clever displays. who planned, provided, helped, visited Guilly and Tony sped from The Hollies As the weather was rather unpredictable, and supported the event. The next part of the church had been re-organised fundraising event in All Saints’ Church Pop Up Shelter ..no need for brollies! to accommodate refreshment tables for is a concert by Miscellany, a ladies Tower Men all at attention the delicious cream teas on offer. choir, on 28th September. Tickets are (Torches ready) must get a mention The atmosphere inside the church available to purchase from Janet Smith, Chris & Dave, James & Paul positively ‘buzzed’ with visitors enjoying Judith Hillman or Gillian Wookey. Up/down the steps for one and all Chew Valley Choral Society begins its you don’t have to be able to read music. Barbara’s scones & Joan’s Welsh cake weekly rehearsals on September 10th, Have a look at the Society’s website Thanks to all for what they bake under the skilled direction of David chewvalleychoral.org.uk or ring Helen Then there’s all the friends who come Bednall. New singers, experienced Boyde on 01275 333014 or just turn or not, are welcome to come along to up at 7.30 on Tuesday September giving the day a very smooth run sample the joy of singing in a friendly, 10th at Chew Stoke Hall for a friendly Feast on lunch from Chris and Ken mixed choir. There’s no audition and welcome. what a treat! they’re sure to help again! Then….cut the cake….fill the urn It’s acting Jim, but not as we know it! Blue Moon Theatre Company, long members Astra E. State and Stella R. Make the tea & wash up in turn renowned and often revered for their Twa ensure the survival of their species We made some money & had some fun historical accuracy, are turning their despite Del Vader’s interventions? Will BUT…next year please we gaze to the future for their next show. the love struck droid IB1TP ever find WANT SOME SUN! Celebrations Set in the near future when Earth is love? And will our production team be visited by an all female Alien craft, able to build a working transporter in After many years, Pauline Parnell has July 1923 – A very long time ago! ‘Orphans of the Universe’ promises to time for the show? If you want to find out decided that her other commitments The date came to light with rather a “glow”. be a show of intergalactic proportions then grab your Capella and Bootes and mean that the time has come for her Cards and balloons with hearty good wishes, and short tutus. come down to see the show. to put down her editorial pen and hand Surprises galore in all kinds of dishes. The all female crew of the starship With a bar and nibbles and with a over the running of this magazine to Must be a celebration, Phoenix see no hope for their race unless ticket price that is easy on the Perseus, someone else. It is a very important Something rather special! they can find males to procreate with, ‘Orphans of the Universe’ will be means of communication across the four It’s Sid Thomas’s Day so when Captain Slog brings them into showing at Chew Magna Church Hall on villages, circulated to every house as With a birthday to treasure. orbit around an unfamiliar blue-green Friday 20th September & Saturday 21st well as being posted to other interested 90 years. planet they discover that the menfolk September. readers living further away. It’s now a huge Thank You that inhabit it are a near enough fit for Tickets £8 available from Chew Magna If you are interested in becoming To so many of you, their needs. Things would have gone Post Office or ring Mary Douglas-Jones involved, please contact Andrew With much appreciation swimmingly if it wasn’t for the intervention on 01275475154. Proceeds to St Peters Hillman on 01761 490324 or email And more memories to treasure of the voracious Del Vader and his Hospice and Chelwood Bridge Rotary [email protected]” For the Nonagenarian Sid equally notorious accent. How can crew Club. Chew Valley Wildlife Trust: with us? The question for the red squirrel “Can we save the Red?” is: can we help it make a comeback? On Thursday 26th This unique film travels the length of September by Richard Britain through one year to assess Brock in the Chew Magna progress and considers the future. Millennium Hall, 7.45pm. £2.50 incl Richard Brock worked with the BBC refreshments. Natural History Unit for 35 years. This We are very fond of our native red is his own unique, self-funded, film squirrel, part of our culture, part of our to promote red squirrel conservation countryside. But how long will they be across Britain. Chew ValleyValley Gardening Society Chelwood Flower Show Roy Cheek held us spellbound at our Thank you to all those who helped in July meeting as he explained details of any way to make this year’s Flower how to attract butterflies to our gardens. Show such a great success.Planning, We learnt about some of the many, many setting up, beavering away in kitchen or varieties of Buddleia, among other plants, vegetable patch; spending hours sewing, which are attractive to butterflies. The painting, sorting photographs and much, National Collection of Buddleia is held at much more, to make it all happen. Longstock Nursery in Hampshire. We had a fine day, the tables were filled We enjoyed a wonderfully, inspirational with vegetables, colourful flowers and evening with a well-supported competition beautiful flower arrangements, cakes of three stems of garden flowers. galore, jellies and jams gleaming in the We meet again in September on 12th when light. we will hear from David Usher about The It was a joy to see such talent displayed CHEW PLUMBING Restoration of Hestercombe Gardens. in the paintings, drawings, embroidery CLEANSWEEP & MAINTENANCE Do join us in The Old Schoolroom, Chew and all the other crafts. There were 318 Chimney Sweeping Service Building Repairs + Installations Magna at 8.00pm Visitors welcome. exhibits in all and plenty of visitors to Proprietor : S. Treby + Improvements www.chewvalleygardeningsociety.org.uk appreciate them. Tiling : Alterations : Kitchens The annual House to House The evening Auction of Produce raised 4 Somerset Crescent Bathrooms : General Building collection held throughout a few laughs and more cash, thanks to And much more the Chew Valley during June raised a our expert auctioneer and his helpers. Melksham, Wilts magnificent £4070. We are most grateful Total for the day was £530 for Chelwood CALL NEIL to all those willing collectors who help us Village Hall funds. 01761 492905 or 07970 293340 with this vital fund raising effort. 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Attractive, warm & comfortable Showroom at Radstock Road, My husband and I would like to say a Chelwood Lucky Draw - July & August Midsomer Norton, BA3 2AD Parties : Functions : Meetings etc big thank you to all our friends for their £10 - G. Gardiner : £8 - A. Ross For details or bookings contact www.sdsgaragedoors.co.uk kindness and support following my £5 - P. Harding : £3.50 - C Buckland recent accident. It has been greatly £10 - A.Ross : £8 - T. Sherborne Mrs Fox 01761 490955 Trading Standards Approved appreciated. PAT SAUNDERS £5 - S. Waite : £3.50 - G. Gardiner PENSFORD A local, personal service for all your litho and digital TENNIS CLUB printing needs. Our teams in the Summer League Coffee Morning at Winford Manor have not faired very well this season Tel: 01761 490801 – Wednesday, 9th October, 10.00am - mainly due to injuries and therefore Mob: 07970 381578 12.00 noon. Coffee and biscuits - £2.00. [email protected] they have not always been able to field Tombola, cakes, bring and buy, books their strongest players. We still could do LETTERHEADS • LEAFLETS and of course Christmas Cards. with more members and all abilities are Book Sale – 9am –5pm - Friday, 18th BUSINESS CARDS • BOOKLETS welcome - after all we all have to start and Saturday 19th October; 9.00am NCR SETS • POSTERS A3-A0 somewhere! Club play for adults is on – 3.00pm, Sunday, 20th October at New � WEB HOSTING & DESIGN � Tuesday evenings 7.15pm - 9.15pm with Manor Farm. the first hour devoted to coaching (£5.00 Autumn Quiz Night at Cameley Lodge. per person and non members can also Friday, 15th Nov, 7.00pm for 7.30pm colin stenner join in the coaching session). Sunday start. £16 for a team of four people. electrical services Club play is from 11.00am - 1.00pm. ALL TYPES OF ELECTRICAL For details about coaching please click All Saints’ Market Report for July on to our website. Courts can also be The July coffee morning and market INSPECTING & TESTING hired during the day by non members was very well attended, many people UNDERTAKEN for £5 per hour subject to availability. being encouraged to come and join us COMPLY WITH 17TH EDITION On the social side of things we are by the colourful plants outside. Inside OVER 26 YEARS EXPERIENCE organising another Casino Night in the church room the home baking and Pensford Memorial Hall on Saturday craft stalls were kept busy throughout 01761 490952 30th November. Tickets are now on the morning. Thank you to all who 07792758321 – 24HR sale at £5.00 (includes cheese or ham contributed to the event which raised ploughman’s). For more information £229.43 for church funds. Our next speak to Alison 01275 832201, Kathleen market is on Saturday, 7th September THOMAS DAVIS 01761 490834 or Sue 01761 490867. and we look forward to seeing you all Independent Family Funeral Directors www.pensfordtennisclub.co.uk there. Pensford Local History Group Elizabeth Pines’ 24 Hours Personal Service Private Chapel of Rest Pensford Local History Group had it’s F o u n d a t i o n last summer walk in July, when we Education Trust Home Visits Rolls Royce Fleet had a tour of the Bath’s old theatre Applications are invited and Masonic Museum. Our guide, from higher education students Trevor Quartermaine, was welcoming for financial assistance towards Tel No: 0117 966 3268 or 0800 018 4386 and relaxed, as he told us about the the cost of books and/or other interesting history of the building and materials necessary for their studies. Freemasonry. The theatre was built Applicants must be resident in in the 1750’s and would have been the Parish of Publow with Pensford. right on the edge of the City of Bath. Written application, giving details www.stantoncourtnh.net In the eighteenth century it was briefly of the course, and what the grant is a Catholic chapel before becoming a for, should be submitted to Masonic Lodge, which it still is today. Andrew Hillman It was an eye-opening and fascinating Clerk to the Trustees tour, and well worth the visit. Our Group Birchwood House, Pensford takes a break for the summer. and BS39 4NG next season’s programme will start in by 30th September, 2013 October. ARCONARCON Architecture & Conservation 1 Church Lane, Chelwood. Bristol J a p o n i c a Tel: 01761 49025 / 07766 232617 [email protected] 'Tithe Map & Tradition' - John Casselden Suzanne Casselden : Stephen Pugh a History of St. Mary's Flower Shop For your Architectural, An illustrated talk by Joe Bettey & Lorna Howarth Conservation & Structural needs Local authority Listed Building Friday 27th September. 7.30pm for 8.00pm Whitegate Nurseries Design Quality Award 2010 in St. Mary's, Compton Dando.

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T 8.00pm till Late T Mowers Doors open 7.30pm Unit 11 Lays Farm Trading Estate, Charlton Road, Keynsham, Bristol. BS31 2SE Tel: 0117 986 1861 www.ttmowers.com SALES & SERVICING Ticket Price £6.50 Free pick-up on Service Work Only Tickets Now On Sale Please contact New & Second Hand Machines HAYTOR : WOLF : SARP : QUALCAST : ROVER Marie & Steve K.R. Bars on 01275 331340 or 07970619476 Mowers : Rotavators : Loppers : chainsaws : Hedgecutters All proceeds from this event will go to The Memorial Hall NEW Collectors’ Model Corner CORGIE DINKY etc september 2013 Compton Dando Community Association presents the fourth Sun 1 Celebration Eucharist with Bishop of Norwich All Saints’ 10.30am Lunch in Pensford Memorial Hall 12.30pm Sat 7 All Saints’ Church Publow Coffee Morning & Market Pensford Church Room 10.00 – 11.30am Mon 9 Teatime Madness, Pensford Primary School 3.30 – 4.45pm DOGDOG SHOSHOWW W.I. Meeting Pensford Memorial Hall 7.30pm Tue 10 Chew Valley Choral Society Chew Stoke Hall 7.30pm Thur 12 Mothers’ Union Pensford Church Room 2.15pm �� Sat 14th Sept 2pm Chew Valley Gardening Society Meeting Old School Room 8.00pm �� Fri 13 The Micky John Bull Fun Night Pensford Memorial Hall 7.30p �� Sat 14 Compton Dando Community Association Coffee Morning 10.30am Compton Dando Community Association Dog Show 2.00pm �� Fri 20 Blue Moon Theatre Production of Orphans of the Universe Spectators £1 Children under 12 free Sat 21 Blue Moon Theatre Production of Orphans of the Universe Refreshments Thur 26 Chew Valley Wildlife Trust Meeting Mellennium Hall 7.45pm & Raffle Fri 27 Pensford Primary School Harvest Celebration All Saints’ 2.00pm �� Tithe Map & Tradition Compton Dando Parish Hall 7.30pm Sat 28 Compton Dando Churchyard Working Party 9.00am �� Miscellany Ladies Choir Concert All Saints’ Publow 7.30pm �� O c t o b e r �� Tue 1 Benefice Council Meeting Compton Dando Village Hall 7.30pm 01761 490927 Sun 6 St Mary’s Harvest Festival & Lunch 11.15am [email protected] 1220 x 535mm �� ALIDE HIRE SERVICES �� Tool Hire - Diggers & dumpers - Toilet Hire

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