KKiinngg''ss TThhoorrnn && The Birches Newsletter The Birches Newsletter A Newsletter for the Villages of King's Thorn, Little Birch & Much Birch – October 2008 Harvest Supper (LBVH) Please bring your plate, pudding bowl, DIARY DATES OCTOBER 2008 knife, fork, spoon and glass to our Harvest Supper which will be held on FRIDAY 10TH OCTOBER – Harvest Supper 10TH OCTOBER. Price £6 per meal. 11TH OCTOBER – ‘Flu Jabs __________________________________ 14TH OCTOBER – Whist Drive Flu Jabs 14TH OCTOBER – Evergreen Club Outing Much Birch Surgery are holding two 18TH OCTOBER – ‘Flu Jabs sessions for ‘flu jabs on SATURDAY TH TH 18 OCTOBER — And When Did You Last See Your Father? “12A” 11 OCTOBER and on SATURDAY ST TH 21 OCTOBER – W.I. 18 OCTOBER both from 9.00am. – 24TH OCTOBER – Village Market 11.00am. in Much Birch Community 24TH OCTOBER – Haunted Evening Hall. 29TH OCTOBER – Gardening Club __________________________________ 30TH OCTOBER – Bingo Whist Drive ADVANCE NOTICES We are holding a Whist Drive at Little 1ST NOVEMBER – Tips Tastes & Techniques TH Birch Village Hall on TUESDAY 14 21ST & 22ND NOVEMBER – Halfway Community Theatre RD OCTOBER. We shall Start at 7.30p m. 3 DECEMBER – Gardening Club Christmas Social The entrance fee will be £1.50 There are excellent Prizes and refreshments will be TH available. New players are always On SATURDAY 18 OCTOBER at on 01432 840559 or Kath Watts on 01981 welcome. 7.30pm. the showing will be AND 540382. __________________________________ WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE YOUR __________________________________ _ FATHER? “12A” Haunted Evening Evergreen Club Jim Broadbent shines in this painfully On FRIDAY 24TH OCTOBER at honest yet often hilarious re-telling of Historic Wells and its beautiful cathedral 7.30p.m. by popular request, there is to be Blake Morrison’s memoirs; also starring more than matched up to all our a return visit and evening with Hereford Colin Firth, Juliet Stevenson and Gina expectations. City Councillor John Newman. Price £5 McKee. Our last outing of the year is to Knighton (including soup and bread). Refreshments served from 7.00pm. and Presteigne on TUESDAY 14TH __________________________________ SATURDAY 15 NOVEMBER at 6.00pm OCTOBER. Knighton is a small, M.B. Village Market. — WALL-E U unspoilt border town with a choice of The next Village Market will be on Another great family animation from places for lunch. In the afternoon we go FRIDAY, 24TH OCTOBER in Much Pixar, the team that brought you Toy Story to Presteigne, primarily to visit the award- Birch Community Hall from 2.30-4.30pm. & Finding Nemo - a visual feast that is winning Judge’s Lodgings (£4.25 to be As well as the usual stalls selling completely out of this world. paid on entry), though the town itself vegetables, pies, Ice Cream, fresh pork (Special Offer! — one adult ticket at offers much of interest. and gluten free fare, there will be a stall £3 when bought with a child ticket) The cost for the coach will be £6.50 Refreshments served from 5.50pm. selling chutneys, jams and fresh bread. (£8.50 for non-members) plus a further £2 Tickets available in advance or on the There will be a variety of local craft for those being picked up in Ross. The door - for further info or to book tickets makers, plant stall and the Fair Trade number to ring is 01981 540932. please call Bryony Connolly 01981 stand as well. Please note the different pick-up times 541274. Please come and support these local 8.55 Merton Hotel Films, start times and dates are liable to traders and producers and keep this very 9.00 Fonteine Court change so please check before making a worthwhile market going. Refreshments, 9.15 Axe & Cleaver journey. tea and delicious cakes, will be provided 9.20 M.B.Church Bus Stop __________________________________ by Chris and Peter Dowsett and Pauline 9.25 Tump Lane (Bungalows) W.I. Rogers in aid of MacMillan Cancer 9.30 The Park, Wormelow ST Support. 9.35 Tump Lane (Middle) On TUESDAY 21 OCTOBER, at __________________________________ Much Birch Hall at 7.30pm. Richard 9.40 Poor Clares Convent Jordan will be entertaining us with music Gardening Club 9.45 Kings Thorn Bus Shelter The October meeting of the Gardening 9.50 Coach Depot Brandon and slides about Route 66. If you would like further details of our Club will be held in Little Birch Village __________________________________ programme please contact Barbara Wilson Hall on WEDNESDAY 29TH Flicks in the Sticks OCTOBER at 7.30pm. The talk given by Janet Gwinnett will be on 'The Gardens of thoughts and prayers. It is good to see Harvest Thanksgiving Services will begin South Herefordshire'. IRIS LLOYD back at home and making shortly in the Wormelow Hundred group Advance notice : The Christmas Social steady progress and we hope all things of Churches and as the Hereford Open will be held at 7.30pm on WEDNESDAY will go well for SELBY when he goes to Door for the Homeless is one of the 3RD DECEMBER. Birmingham for a bypass operation. chosen charities this year, it is suggested __________________________________ HARRIET CHAPMAN, one of our local that a good proportion of our gifts should Bingo young people, who attends St Mary’s RC be in the form of ‘Dry goods and canned Eyes down at 8.00pm. on THURSDAY High School, has been selected to take foods’, which can be more easily used for 30TH OCTOBER at Little Birch Village part in the Borneo Expedition 2009 with this most worthwhile project. Hall. There are good prizes and the Hereford Expedition Group, which is __________________________________ refreshments will be available. in partnership with Raleigh International. Harewood – talk and walk __________________________________ Together they work on challenging More than 70 people turned up to hear Tips, Tastes & Techniques environmental and community projects Heather Hurley talk about the history of Come to an evening with the renowned around the world. As part of their Harewood Park. It proved to be a most local chef, Ken Tait on SATURDAY 1ST community project they will be working interesting and well-illustrated talk giving NOVEMBER at 7.30pm in Much Birch on installing a 15km water pipe which will an overview from earliest times up to the Hall. Let Ken make you the perfect chef. supply water to the village community. present. We heard how there have been Forget the stress and pleasure the success. They will also experience living in the Neolithic and Bronze Age finds on the Enjoy the evening as Ken guides us jungle and teaching the local children estate, also Roman urns with ashes. By through a whole range of delicious dishes, English. As part of the challenge they the Norman conquest it was part of with professional tips and techniques and have to fundraise £2,500 and will be Harewood Forest which included lots of tasters. £10.00 a head, includes taking part in a 17mile sponsored walk Athelstan’s and Aconbury woods. There Punch on arrival, tasters and leaflets. across the black mountains. We wish her were apparently continuous trees from Tickets can be obtained from Lesley on well in this extremely worthwhile project. Harewood End to Hoarwithy. Harewood 01981 540366 and John on 540980. Be Last week , OLIVE and RODERICK itself was given to the Knights Templar by ready with canapés and starters plus main STEWART moved to their new home at King John. It was a manor of 200 acres courses and desserts for Christmas Rose Garden and we wish them many then and a hall, mill, grange and chapel entertaining. years of happiness in their new home. were built. This was transferred to the __________________________________ Both have been very active in the Knights Hospitallers in the 1300s and Halfway Community Theatre community over a good number of years, remained with them until the Dissolution especially in the Gardening Club and and some time after was bought by The Halfway Community Theatre are many young people have had great pleased to announce their Autumn show Brownes of the Mynde, Much Dewchurch. enjoyment with Roderick’s dolls houses They built a smart new Tudor mansion to be 'A Victorian Box of Delights' which have been expertly furnished by with turrets and lived there until after the held on FRIDAY & SATURDAY 21ST & ND Olive. You will both be greatly missed but Civil War when they lost their money. It 22 NOVEMBER at 7.30pm. in Much not forgotten! was then sold to Bennet Hoskyns of Birch Community Hall. Sadly, we have to record the passing of Moorhampton, Abbeydore in 1654. It Tickets are £10 (£5 for under 14's), to SUE CONSTANTINE at the age of 66 remained in the family for 250 years, include supper in the Interval and you can years. Sue came to Tabor Court with her being passed from father to son, seemingly book by calling Jenny Wrigley on 01981 late husband, John, in the early 1970’s and alternating the names Hungerford and 540617. most people will have noted her Chandos. All were apparently lawyers, __________________________________ welcoming to patients at the local surgery, having been Oxford educated, and several Local News where she worked for some 7 years or so. were MPs for Hereford. Some were October will be a very exciting and busy She then took a Practice Managers course extravagant with money, others married month for the REV. MOSES NTHUKAH and left the surgery to become ‘Beds well but somehow they kept going, and his family as Moses has been elected Manager’ at the County Hospital until her enlarging the estate to over 1000 acres, Bishop designate of his home diocese of retirement after which she helped set up a rebuilding the house in a fashionable Mbeere in Kenya.