KKiinngg''ss TThhoorrnn && The Birches Newsletter The Birches Newsletter A Newsletter for the Villages of King's Thorn, Little Birch & Much Birch – April 2010 The Evergreen Club DIARY DATES FOR APRIL 2010 The first trip this year will be on TUESDAY 13 THTHTH APRIL to the 10 TH APRIL – Bring and Share Social for the Dinnens TH National Memorial Arboretum at 13 APRIL – Evergreen Club Outing TH Alrewas. The very varied 13 APRIL – Whist Drive LBVH 17 TH APRIL – Flicks in the Sticks memorials are set in an attractive 19TH APRIL – Pop In arboretum of over 50,000 trees, 20 TH APRIL – Save The Castle Public Meeting offering pleasant walks. A land 20 TH APRIL – Much Birch WI train also tours the site (£2). There 23 RD APRIL – Much Birch Village Market is a good restaurant. 23 RD APRIL – Beetle Drive LBVH The cost is £10 for members (£12 23RD & 24TH APRIL – Halfway Community Theatre for non-members). The number to ring is 01981 540932540932. ADVANCE NOTICES The pick-ups are : 8th MAY – Riding for the Disabled Open Day Fonteine Court 9.00 5TH MAY – LBPC Meeting Peterstow (Broom Farm lay-by) 9.05 13 TH MAY ––– PACT meeting Axe and Cleaver 9.15 M B Church bus stop 9.20 Tump Lane (bottom bungalows) 9.25 Refreshments served from 7.00pm. friends and neighbours. Everyone is The Park, Wormelow 9.30 Tickets available in advance or on welcome, please come and support Tump Lane (middle) 9.35 the door - for further info or to the campaign. Poor Clares Convent 9.40 book tickets please call Bryony ____________________________ Kings Thorn bus shelter 9.45 Connolly 01981 541274. Coach Depot Brandon 9.50 WIWIWI ____________________________ _____________________________ The April meeting of the WI takes THTHTH Whist Drive Pop In place on TUESDAY, 20 APRIL Our next Whist Drive at Little Birch This month’s Pop In at Much Birch in Much Birch Community Hall at THTHTH Community Centre is at 2.00pm. 7.30pm. The speaker is David Till, Village Hall is on TUESDAY 131313 TH APRIL. We shall start at 7.30pm. on MONDAY 19 APRIL. whose subject is ‘A visit to The entrance fee is £1.50 Excellent ____________________________ Argentina’. Visitors and potential new prizes and refreshments will be Public meeting available. New players are always members are always welcome. For The Save the Castle Inn Campaign further information about Much welcome. is holding an open public meeting _____________________________ Birch WI please contact Kath Watts, at Little Birch village hall on 01981 540382 or Jennifer Jones, THTHTH Flicks in the Sticks TUESDAY 202020 APRIL at 01981 540698 SATURDAY 17 TH APRIL at 7.30pm 7.30pm. The meeting has been _____________________________ ——— BRIGHT STAR PGPGPG organised to update the This is a finely crafted, terrifically community on the progress of the MMMuchMuch Birch VillaVillagege MarMarketketketket well performed and subtly told tale campaign to get the Castle Inn The April Market will take place on RDRDRD about the forever-stalled reopened so far, to provide a FRIDAY, 23 in Much Birch relationship between John Keats forum for people to voice their Community Hall between 2.30pm and his Hampstead neighbour, views on the direction of the and 4.30pm. Fanny Brawne who he was not campaign and get involved, also to All the usual stalls will be there and, able to marry because of his formally ratify the in addition we will also have Cake poverty. campaign committee. It also Angels, who make delicious cakes, Tickets £4 (£3 under 16s) provides an opportunity for local including a selection for allergy people to get together with their sufferers. Please join us in showing our Community Hall between 10.00am Church Choir for many years and a support of local suppliers of meat, and 5.00pm. We hope there will Church Warden for a while. John cheese, bread etc. and enjoy be lots of work to see and to has been on the P.C.C. and has refreshments sold in aid of inspire. Members will be giving organised the Area Warden Scheme MacMillan Cancer Support. You demonstrations of their particular and Christian Aid for the Parish for will also find a variety of crafts and field of expertise at various times a number of years. a Fair Trade stall. For further during the day. Refreshments will He is involved with Fairtrade over details please contact Kath, 01981 be available throughout. a wider area and is on the Deanery 540382. ______________________________ Synod. Their friends will have the ____________________________ Have Your Say! opportunity to say goodbye to them at a Bring and Share Social LBVH Beetle Drive PACT stands for Partners and LBVH Beetle Drive Evening on SATURDAY 10 THTHTH AAAPRILAPRIL RDRDRD Communities Together. It gives you This is on FRIDAY 23 APRIL at 7.00pm. at Much Birch the chance to tell your local starting at 7.30pm. Community Hall. We all wish them authority, police team, and other Entrance: £5 per team (table of an enjoyable and healthy future life four) nibbles included! There will local organisations about issues that in Madley. be a draw and a bar. cause concern in your A warm welcome to Much Birch to _______________________________ neighbourhood, and how we can ROBIN and HANNAH DALE and all work to together to address children ELIZABETH and Halfway Community Theatre them and make Herefordshire an We are pleased to announce that FREDERICK. They moved into even better place to live. Topics Minstercote in February from our next show 'TRIAL BY JURY which come up include: *** Re- PLUS! will take place at 7.30 pm in Hereford. cycling *** Traffic speeding *** NIGEL LINDON took up residence Much Birch Community Hall on Dog fouling *** Local roads *** RDRDRD at Firethorn, Much Birch a few FRIDAY 232323 and SATURDAY Litter and street cleaning *** Anti- THTHTH weeks ago. He runs his own firm of 242424 APRIL. Come and enjoy the social behaviour. G & S Trial by Jury! and a great builders with a particular speciality IF YOU DON’T TELL US, celebration of an English St Georges of building and adapting properties WHO WILL? for people in wheelchairs and with Day. Tickets can be bought from To find out more please visit other disabilities. He is a newcomer Audrey Crowte on 01981 540432 www.herefordshirepartnership.com from the beginning of March and to Herefordshire and we hope that /pacts or e-mail us at he has an enjoyable life here. He as usual, the cost includes a hot [email protected]. supper and is £10 a head (£5 for hopes to participate in village uk or telephone us on 01432 activities. under 14's). Don't forget to bring 261792. your own drink and a glass. We Having spent several weeks in The next PACT meeting for Hillside, FRANK SHORT has would urge you to book early as Hereford Rural South is on tickets are limited. We look decided not to return home to THURSDAY 13 THTHTH MAY at 7.00pm. forward to seeing you there. Tump Lane but to live at at Much Birch Village Hall, Charnwood Retirement Home in Celia Brown ____________________________ ____________________________ Much Dewchurch. He will still be BBBingoBingo quite near his friends and no doubt Gardening Club Following the “Special Easter will continue to give us all the local TH On WEDNESDAY 28 APRIL our Bingo” the next Bingo at LBVH will news! We wish him happiness there good friend Mrs. Dot Skyrme will be the “Special Christmas Bingo”Bingo”. and better health than he has demonstrate flower arrangements Details to be posted later in the enjoyed recently. with reference to the annual Show year. It is sad to report the untimely classes. As usual the meeting starts _____________________________ passing of COLIN WEALE of Tump at 7.30pm. in Little Birch Hall. Lane at the age of 51 years after a New members are always Local News short stay in hospital. His funeral welcome. For more information DR. JOHN DINNEN and REV. service was held on 16 th . March at Phone Helen Fox 541004 or John JUDY DINNEN moved in February the Crematorium and was Bryant 540316. from Minstercote, Much Birch to conducted by Rev. Mark Johnson ___________________________ their new home in Madley, which and the following is taken from his will be closer to Judy's work in the address. A date for the diary. Ministry in the Madley Group of On SATURDAY, 8 THTHTH MAY the Colin was born at 14, Tump Lane in Parishes. They will both be greatly 1958 and spent most of his life in ladies of Much Birch WI and missed by the Much Birch Llangrove WI are staging an Art this house. He was the third son of Community for which they have Betty and John with older brothers, and Craft Show in Much Birch worked tirelessly. Judy was in the David and John. John senior was a keep it in good working order. He those members of the committee fireman while Betty stayed at home loved his bikes and the sense of who organised it, to those who to bring up the family and, like freedom that he got from travelling donated refreshments and to those many wives at that time, did fruit around on them though his who provided a variety of picking in the summer months for disability meant that he wasn’t able entertainment on the ‘open mic’. Col. Howorth at Court Farm. to ride as much as he would have Thanks also to Nick for working his Sadly, Betty passed away 23 years liked. socks off behind the bar! We look ago.