Stone, Dinton, Ford, Upton, Hartwell & Bishopstone with Aston Sandford - Part of the Wychert Vale Benefice August 2020 Issue ~ £1.00 (£7.50 annual subscription) The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. WYCHERT VALE BENEFICE CONTACTS Benefice Rector Currently Vacant Associate Rector 7, Badgers Rise Revd Tel: 01296 748 390 Stone Aylesbury Canon Email: [email protected] HP17 8RR Dr Phil Groves Hon Treasurer 6 Eythrope Yard Tel: 01296 747689 Naomi Corbould Eythrope, Stone [email protected] HP18 0HT Curate Greenwood, Tel: 01296 747454 New Road, Revd Nigel Featherston Email: [email protected] Dinton, HP17 8UT For Baptisms, Weddings and Funerals please contact the Parish Administrator at the Benefice office St Mary’s Centre Station Road Haddenham Aylesbury HP17 8AJ or email [email protected] or [email protected] St John the Baptist, Stone Eryl Morgan 101 Baker Street Churchwarden Waddesdon, 07784 869430 HP18 0LQ [email protected] Raymond 10 Grenville Road Medhurst Aylesbury 07793 541456 Churchwarden HP21 8EY [email protected] St Peter and St Paul, Dinton Rosemary Jackson Innisfree, New Road, 01296 748655 Churchwarden Dinton, HP17 8UT [email protected] Neil Chudley 01296 748277 Churchwarden [email protected] St Michael & All Angels, Aston Sandford Marilynne Morgan [email protected] Hon Treasurer 20 Wykeham Gate, David Peck Haddenham, Aylesbury, 01844 292110 Churchwarden. Bucks. HP17 8DF [email protected] 01844 291217 Nick Morgan [email protected] Churchwarden Front Cover: Swans at Eythrope by Heather Harris __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Parish News 2 August 2020 Parish news NOTE: Events and services published in the magazine are correct at the time of print though may change in light of the Coronavirus advice. Editorial “Are we nearly there yet?” is something we will not hear so much this year. Most of us will not have a holiday or if you have a few days off there are likely to be spent at home. We are not nearly at end of the pandemic but there are signs that things are easing. Beauty salons and nail bars are opening which to me is a significant step forward. What good things are there coming out of this? For many people it has been a (forced) chance to reassess your life and think about what is important. We can enjoy where we live and the countryside. We can value community life and look out for each other. We are valuing peace and quiet. Do we really want to go back to the rat race? We can appreciate jobs that a few months ago were thought of as low grade unskilled. Whether you are going away or not, enjoy the Summer. News team Editor: David Pickup 01296 748170 [email protected] Editorial: Carole Fryer 01296 748538 [email protected] Advertising: Sue Unwin 07760 177599 [email protected] IT Producer: Heather Harris 07766 086280 [email protected] Distributor: Fiona Rysdale 01296 747466 [email protected] Parish News is a community magazine for the residents of Stone, Dinton, Ford, Upton, Bishopstone, Hartwell and Aston Sandford. We welcome news, announcements by societies and clubs, and articles on local and other issues. We do not charge for charities or personal notices such as weddings, baptisms or acknowledgments and welcome advertising by local businesses. __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Parish News 3 August 2020 Parish Services and Calendar St John St Peter & Stone St Michael & August the Baptist Paul Methodist All Angels 2020 Stone Dinton Chapel Aston Sandford 2nd August 10.30am 10.00am 11.00- Trinity 8 Morning Morning 11.300am Owing to the Worship Worship Worship** size of the church at 9th August 10.30am 6.00pm 11.00- Aston Trinity 9 Morning Parish 11.300am Sandford we Worship Evensong Worship** are not able to confirm the 16th August 10.30am 10.00am 11.00- date of our Trinity 10 Morning Morning 11.300am first service. It Worship Worship Worship** will be as soon as reasonably 23rd August 10.30am 11.00- practical and Trinity 11 BCP Matins 11.300am safe. Worship** 30th August 10.30am 10.30am Trinity 12 Morning Morning Worship Worship at Stone+++ Note : These will be simple said services as ** Note singing is not yet permitted. Please bring your shorter own Bibles if you wish. Complying with the service time Government and Diocesan regulations both churches have been properly prepared and places ++ Note are socially distanced. Hand sanitiser and change of antibacterial cleaner are readily available. venue The porch at St John the Baptist is open every day for private prayer and the church itself on Sundays from 9.30am - 11.30am. Ss Peter & Paul is open for private prayer on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays from 10.00am to 5.00pm. __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Parish News 4 August 2020 __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Parish News 5 August 2020 For a selection of streamed services, prayers and reflections available online, try the following websites: https://www.oxford.anglican.org/coronavirus-covid-19/livestream/ https://www.oxford.anglican.org/coronavirus-covid- 19/livestream/parish-streams/ https://www.wychertvale.org/youtube/ https://www.churchofengland.org/more/media-centre/church-online __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Parish News 6 August 2020 VJ Day : 15th August Allied troops celebrating in London Image used by kind permission of the Imperial War Museum 15 August 2020 is the 75th anniversary of VJ Day, marking both the surrender of Japan and the end of the Second World War. The last man to die who is recorded on Stone war memorial was Gunner Dennis Seaton of Queen’s Own Oxfordshire Hussars Anti-Tank unit. In fact his sudden and unexplained death was just after the end of the war on 2nd January 1946 at the age of 37. He came from Belle Vue in Stone and lived with his wife and fourteen month old son. Before the war he worked at St. John’s Hospital and during the war he worked on anti-aircraft search lights. Sergeant Bill Jessett of the Royal Army Service Corps lived in Dinton but had been born in Canada after his family emigrated. He lost his brother Edwin in the First World War. He joined the regular army before the war and went with the BEF to __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Parish News 7 August 2020 France. He was evacuated from Dunkirk. He later went with his unit to the Far East and captured by the Japanese in 1942. He was held as a prisoner of war in Thailand from where he sent postcards with pre-printed information. His death certificate says he was killed at sea but it seems he survived the war but went missing during repatriation. His family received a letter from friends arranging to meet up after war. They put a notice in The Bucks Herald and three men replied all saying he had survived. What happened, whether his troop ship was sunk or he died of sickness is a mystery. __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Parish News 8 August 2020 STONE LOCAL HISTORY GROUP plans and updates, August 2020 Like all similar organisations and mindful of the wellbeing of our members, the Stone Local History Group have cancelled all meetings and outings until the end of this year. Depending on government guidelines and our own assessment of safety, we have rescheduled all meetings and the outings to Highclere and Nuffield Place to 2021. Current subscriptions will now run until the end of 2021. We are, however, continuing to produce and circulate by email or post, our monthly newsletter - a 2-3 page illustrated Newsletter with no News! - but lots of information on all sorts of aspects of village life and history taken from our archives. Last month we had items about Star Lodge demolished for the Coldharbour roundabout, family memories of WWII including Chloe’s father’s hit pop record, John Reed’s family and the Aylesbury bombing, and Evelyn Alcock’s memories of the families in the new council houses at Bittenham Close and their evacuees. We are also running a series of the delightful memoirs of a small child evacuated to her Ford grandparents in 1939. The July number included more of these memoirs, an account of a bomber crash in 1939 in Stone, the fascinating occupants of Dinton Hall over 300 years, and memories of the Little House opposite the Waggon from Sue Spinks. Future issues will cover the story of George Woodford, born in Stone and for many years a missionary in Bengal. He was torpedoed in 1918 on a voyage back to India and rescued by an American ship off Ushant. In retirement he came back here and was Minister at the Stone Methodist Chapel for 20 years. We are also planning more items – The C19 Hartwell Temperance Festivals, the history of the Stone Pauper Lunatic Asylum, and much more. If non-members of SLHG would like to receive this free Newsletter by email during the virus crisis, please ask Carole: [email protected] __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Parish News 9 August 2020 Letter from Aston Sandford In earlier Letters on the history of Aston Sandford Church I have occasionally mentioned the patrons of the church. The legal right to present to the Bishop a parish priest for appointment (known as presentation) is legally called an advowson, and the possessor of that right is known as a patron. As I understand it the patron can be an individual (or jointly or by rotation), the Crown, a bishop, a college, a charity or other religious body. According to The Companion to the Church of England: A Glossary every parish has its patron, but who is the patron is a matter of the history of the parish and of its origins.