Stretton Focus Community Voice of the Strettons July 2004 70p Flicks in the Sticks Park & Ride at School Food Fayre Design: Paul Miller 9th ~ 11th July Cover July2 1 11/6/04, 9:17 am STRETTON FOCUS Contents (founded 1967) News Average monthly sales: 1,428 copies. Local Food Evening . 11 (About 65% of households in Church Stretton) Church Stretton Schools . 12 Duck Race . 13 Chairman David Jandrell . .724531 Probus . 26 Co-Editors Norma Taylor . .723617 Rail Users’ Association . 39 Pat Oxtoby . .723199 Stretton Swimming Pool . 42 Rachael Sankey . .720024 Bill Forsythe . .724100 Forthcoming events Computer Production Barrie Raynor . .723928 Food Fayre (cover article) . 6 Rowland Jackson . .722390 Ale Trail . 7 Cover Design Paul Miller . .724596 Stretton and Leebotwood Dog Shows . 7 Distribution Jon Cooke . .723205 Arts and Crafts Exhibition . 14 Advertising Len Bolton . .724579 Arts Festival . 14 Treasurer John Wainwright . .722823 Teas to Please . 18 Secretary Janet Peak . .722994 Flower and Music Festival . 30 Salop Musica / Fringe Arts Events . 42 email address: [email protected] Regular Features Advertisements. 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Stretton Focus may be purchased by annual subscription (delivered) or directly from Newsworld (Sandford Avenue), All Stretton Stores, Co-op, the Esso Filling Station and the Churches. © 2004 Stretton Focus ISSN 1479-7356 The Official Church Stretton web site is at www.churchstretton.co.uk. Stretton Focus is printed by WPG, Welshpool Have you visited it yet? Stretton Focus - 2 - July 2004 July 2004 mag 1 11/6/04, 10:59 am What’s On in the Strettons If you wish to know the times of • THURSDAY JULY 1st regular meetings of societies and Church Stretton & District Gardening Club groups, please consult the list of Visit - Stockton Bury, Kimbolton societies and their contacts in the Fascinating group of small gardens, well stocked, central ‘yellow pages’ historically interesting, 4 acres. Cost £9.50. • SATURDAY JULY 3rd • MONDAY JULY 12th Leebotwood Jubilee Party Car Treasure Hunt 6pm, All Stretton Village Hall The Farm, Leebotwood, just off A49 Includes dog show & car boot sale. • TUESDAY JULY 13th Enquiries: Joan Brooks on 01694 751278 Church Stretton Women’s Institute Further details – Page 7 7.15pm, Silvester Horne Institute, Church Stretton Decorated pots demonstration by Mrs Trudy Lawrence. Bible Reading 2pm to 5pm, URC Church, Church Stretton • WEDNESDAY JULY 14th Public reading of the Gospel of St Luke from the Authorised Church Stretton & District Gardening Club King James Bible. Visit - 15 St John’s Road, Pleck, Walsall and Birmingham Botanical Gardens. Cost: £12.50. • SATURDAY JULY 3rd to 17th Salop Musica / Fringe Arts (See page 42) • SATURDAY JULY 17th Cancer Research UK • TUESDAY JULY 6th 10am to 12.30pm, 20 Hazler Orchard, Church Stretton Church Stretton & District Flower Club Garden opening and coffee morning. 7.30pm, Silvester Horne Institute Entrance & refreshments: £2, children free. Talk on ‘plants for flower arranging’ by Mr Steve Adams of Mynd Hardy Plants. Visitor entrance fee: £3. National Trust - South Shropshire Hills 10am to 1pm, meet - Presthope car park. • SATURDAY JULY 10th Geology of Wenlock Edge; walk led by geologist, Peter Shropshire & Mid Wales Hospice Toghill. Adults: £4.50, under 16s: £1.50 - booking essential: 10am to 4pm, Silvester Horne Institute, Church Stretton 01694 722631. Grand Book Sale in aid of the hospice - donations welcome. Contact Tony Crowe on 01694 723292 • TUESDAY JULY 20th All Stretton Women’s Institute South Shropshire Furniture Scheme 7.30pm, All Stretton Village Hall 10am to 5pm, 11 Burway Rd, Church Stretton ‘A portrait of Mary Webb through her poems’ Willow work for gardens, one day course. Fee: £30 plus by Margaret Austin. materials. Country Women’s Guild Church Stretton & District Chamber of Trade 2.15pm, Parish Centre, Church Stretton 7pm, the marquee on Russell’s Meadow Talk on Hong Kong by Graham Heath. Promise auction in aid of Hope House Appeal and Shropshire Ambulance Appeal. Contact Stuart White: • FRIDAY JULY 23rd 01694 722237 or Caroline Blount: 01694 727228. Shropshire & Mid Wales Hospice 3pm to 5pm, Ashford House, High St, Church Stretton National Trust - South Shropshire Hills ‘A Summer Fruits Tea’ Produce & cake stall. Entry: £3. 2.30pm, Chalet Pavilion, Carding Mill Valley The Bedlams - a border country dancing team. • SATURDAY JULY 24th Inner Wheel Club of Church Stretton • SUNDAY JULY 11th 10.30am to 12.30pm, 2 Shrewsbury Rd, Church Stretton Church Stretton Dog Show Coffee morning and courtyard sale. Proceeds to Inner 10.30am, Russell’s Meadow, Church Stretton Wheel charities. Contact: 01694 723246 Entries cost £1 per class. Enquiries: Clive Mabbutt on 01694 751772 (office hours). Further details – page 7 • SUNDAY JULY 25th National Trust - South Shropshire Hills National Trust - South Shropshire Hills 10am to 5pm, Wilderhope House, Longville-in-the-Dale, 10.30am to 2pm, Chalet Pavilion, Carding Mill Valley Wenlock Edge - Open day ‘Eat the View’. Pond dipping, Dragonflies and Damselflies on Long Mynd Pools. Bring a hedge planting and other activities. Entrance: £1. packed lunch. Adults: £2, children £1. Edited By Rachael Sankey Stretton Focus -3 - July 2004 July 2004 mag 2 11/6/04, 10:59 am Church Stretton Jottings: Lost at Sea here are three individuals commemorated on On the morning of 2nd October 1942 she met the liner gravestones in Cunnery Road cemetery whose only ‘Queen Mary’ (which was serving as a troopship and Tgrave is the sea and whose stories together illustrate nearing the end of a voyage from New York to the Clyde) only too graphically the dangers of life at sea, whether in off Bloody Foreland, Northern Ireland. The two ships peace or war. Two of them were servicemen, one from each kept company for about 4 hours, zig-zagging for safety, the of the World Wars. These are: ‘Queen Mary’ behind the ‘Curacao’, acting as escort. STUART WATSON. (Grave no. T9). He was an Assistant At about 2pm one of the ships misjudged its course and the Paymaster in the Royal Navy. He lost his life in HMS ‘Curacao’ found itself across the bows of the liner. The two ‘Good Hope’ at the battle of Coronel on 1st November ships collided and the cruiser was cut in two. About 50 feet 1914, aged 23. of the ‘Curacao’s’ stern was cut off and sank immediately. The remainder stayed afloat for some minutes. H.M.S. ‘Good Hope’ was an For fear of U-boats and to safeguard the troops she was armoured cruiser carrying, the ‘Queen Mary’ was under orders not to stop which, together for anything, so she carried on, leaving rescue work to some with H.M.S. destroyers which were nearby, about 7 miles away. 102 men ‘Monmouth’ from the ‘Curacao’ were saved; 338 died. (another armoured he third person was a civilian who would have had cruiser), under no idea that getting a post on the newest and largest the command of Tliner in the White Star fleet was to cost him his life. H.M.S. ‘Good Hope’ LEOPOLD TURNER is commemorated on Grave no. Rear Admiral Sir Christopher Craddock, was sunk at the P35. The inscription recorded in the Survey by David and Battle of Coronel off the coast of Chile on 1st November Jean Bilbey in 1984 reads: 1914 by a German squadron which included the armoured cruisers ‘Scharnhorst’ and ‘Gneisenau’, under the command “In loving memory of Amelia Turner Who died June 24 1911 of Vice-Admiral Maximilian Graf Von Spee. There were no aged 59 years. Also Leopold Turner Son of the above Lost in survivors from either of the British ships. Titanic disaster April 12 1912 aged 23 years.” The ‘Scharnhorst’ and ‘Gneisenau’ were themselves An ‘L. Turner’ is listed as a steward among the crew sunk at the battle of the Falklands Islands by the British members lost on p. 486 in the book Titanic and her sisters battlecruisers ‘Invincible’ and ‘Inflexible’ on 8th December Olympic and Britannic by Tom McCluskie, Michael Sharpe 1914. and Leo Marriott, published in 1998. DANIEL HENRY WILLOUGHBY GARDNER.