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Friends of St Peter’s Cretingham
Debenham Players - advanced notice
East Anglian Academy programme
Earl Soham - Rota for Altar & Roll of Honour Flowers & Brasses
St Mary’s Ashfield - Flower & Cleaning Rota
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Friends of St Peter’s Cretingham
The follow up to Moira Coleman’s recent talk entitled ‘From Still Room to Tea Room: the park and Gardens at Helmingham Hall’ is an actual field trip to Helmingham Hall in the company of Moira on Sunday 5th June. Tickets are priced at £7.50 to include entrance to the gardens and a professionally informative tour. In order to make the necessary arrangements would interested parties please contact Pamela Pinner, our secretary on 01728 685 406, if tickets were not ordered on the evening of the talk. The group will meet up at the entrance to Helmingham Hall at 2.30 p.m. If anyone has travel problems please contact Pamela Pinner.
Final arrangements are being co-ordinated for the Friends Charity Golf Day (14th July) at Cretingham Golf Club, starting at 8.30 am. Entrance is £60 a pair to include coffee, lunch and the golf competition. Prizes of around £200 are up for grabs so please get out those clubs and come and join us. Entrance forms are available from Eric Brown on 01728 685 520. It should be a great day!
A further date for your diary is the ‘Puddings Evening’ on August 13th at Moat Farm (by kind permission of Mr & Mrs Alan Lettin). Further details to follow.
Tony Whitmarsh Chairman Forge Cottage
Pentecost Ale
Earl Soham is a fortunate village in having its own brewery. This year in conjunction with The Friends of St. Mary’s, Earl Soham, the ancient tradition of brewing Pentecost Ale, is being revived.
Pentecost was originally a Jewish festival, celebrating the first fruits of the harvest. Within the Christian tradition, Pentecost is a celebration of the coming of the Holy Spirit, in flames of fire, and the birthday of the Church. For many Pentecost is better known as Whitsun, and the occasion for a bank holiday, now transferred to the last Saturday in May. The bank holiday tradition grew out of a medieval celebration, which included feasting (roast goose, with apple, sage and onion stuffing) dancing (especially by Morris Men) and the brewing of special ale. Houses would have been decorated with branches of newly budded beech; church floors scattered with rose petals, and it was a time for constructing love bowers and mazes. In one Cotswold village there is a cheese rolling contest, and many villages in times gone by, would have gathered to watch a mystery play. As part of the festivities a Lord and Lady of the Ale, would be chosen, and attended by a retinue of servants. The Puritans naturally didn’t approve of these frivolities and banned the making of ale and Whitsun festivities in 1603, but Charles 2nd, perhaps because he was born on a Whit Monday restored the celebrations on his return to the throne.
In Earl Soham on Saturday May 14th at 12.00noon, we are launching and blessing Pentecost Ale, courtesy of Earl Soham Brewery, and enjoying a BBQ (flames being the most appropriate form of cooking at a festival to celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit). There will be a troupe of Morris Men to entertain us, and involvement from the village school with activities to entertain children.
(Family tickets are £20; Adults £8 and children £4 – to be confirmed) and can be obtained on 01728 685778
Contact for further details Revd Canon Clare Sanders on 01728 685778 or e-mail: claresanders@suffolkonline.net.
Debenham Players
East Anglian Academy Programme for Summer 2005
Saturday 28th May, 5 pm
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Wednesday 29th June |
Mozart Exultate Jubilate Lindsay Gowers – soprano |
The Organ Revealed Malcolm Russell & Peter Bumstead |
The East Anglian Academy was founded to awaken the interest and enjoyment of music lovers in the organ and its music. We are privileged to have as our base St Michael’s Church Framlingham, which houses the famous Thamar organ. Thanks to Peter Willard a house organ built by Rayson of Ipswich in 1890, which was in the redundant Congregational Chapel in Fore Street Framlingham has found a new home in Kenton Parish Church.
Further information and booking contact: Malcolm & Judith Russell
14 Norfolk Crescent Framlingham WOODBRIDGE Suffolk 1P13 9EW
email russell.org.acad@macunlimited.net.
Ashfield Ladies Group
17th May |
Routes to Advice Project |
Shelagh Smith |
21st June |
AGM |
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For further information contact Susan Hansen on 01728 685738.
Earl Soham - Rota for Altar & Roll of Honour Flowers & Brasses
May |
Mrs A Bloomfield |
685270 |
Mrs I Elmore |
685814 |
June |
Mrs D Haines |
685234 |
Mrs M Wade |
685234 |
If you are unable to do your flowers, please contact Margaret Buckland on 685329.
St Mary’s Ashfield - Flower & Cleaning Rota
April |
Jill Robinson |
685084 |
May |
Alison Bowman |
685489 |
June |
Jane Davidson |
685332 |
July |
Doreen Baxter |
685617 |
If you are unable to do your month please contact another person on the list to arrange a swap.
RIP
Thomas Davey
The funeral took place in Framsden on March 23rd of Thomas Davey, who lived at Oak Corner in Cretingham. Thomas was born and brought up in Framsden at High House Farm, and he lived there for 65 years, until he came to Cretingham in his retirement. He was a genuine Suffolk gentleman, who loved the soil, farming and gardening. I especially enjoyed sharing his reminiscences of ploughing with the horses as a young man. He also had a love of all things mechanical, and anything and everything that had wheels. It was no surprise when both his sons went into a garage business, and in retirement Thomas was often to be found over in Crowfield at Evergreen garage giving Tony and Jimmy a hand. His cars were always meticulously cared for, and woe betide if they got a mark on them.
He and Florence met when she was in the Land Army, Florence was a local girl from Pettaugh, they shared 58 very happy years together, family was of great importance to them, and Thomas was a much loved husband, dad, granddad and great granddad.
We express our sympathy to Florence and her family in their loss, may he rest in peace.