News items
Suffolk Historic Churches Bike Ride 2005
Sixty Years On - painting exhibition
Hearing Care Centre Charity Golf Day
Friends of St Peter’s Cretingham
Earl Soham - Rota for Altar & Roll of Honour Flowers & Brasses
St Mary’s Ashfield - Flower & Cleaning Rota
For events see also Services and Events. There are a number of events in the coming months not listed on this page, so do look in Services and Events, and see letters from the ministry team.
Photographs
For anybody wishing to purchase any of the aerial shots of the Churches or any of the photos in the album presented to Clare please contact Simon Garrett 01728 685489 or simon.garrett@iee.org.
24th Suffolk Churches Cycle Ride
Saturday 10th September
Why not have fun, keep fit and at the same time help your local church? Raise money for your own church or chapel and for the Suffolk Historic Churches Trust (proceeds divided equally with the Trust paying the expenses) by cycling or walking - choosing your own route - to as many churches and chapels as you wish.
Entry forms available from local co-ordinators, including
Robert Grimsey, Corner View, Ashfield (01728 685 203)
Val Brumfitt, Fairacre, Brandeston Rd, Earl Soham. Tel: 685408
Duck Race
1st Earl Soham Scout Group
A huge thank-you to everyone who came and supported our Duck Race, which was held at Bridge Farm, Brandeston back in June. Scouting is a completely volunteer run organisation, and we were thrilled to see so many people from inside and outside the Group come and join in. As usual, everyone had a great time, especially the children. We are pleased to say we were able to raise over £1000, and this will go towards new equipment for the Group.
Thankyou, Thankyou, please come again next year.
Sally Western - On behalf of the Earl Soham Scout Group.
Earl Soham Fete
The Earl Soham Church Fete Committee would like to thank all those who helped in whatever capacity with the Fete this year. It was a very successful event raising approximately £2000. We would particularly like to thank our sponsors, J.J.Hutton, Earl Soham Business Centre and Tony Hutt. The lucky winning programme number was 324.
Many of you will now be making jams and preserves… think of the fete and make an extra jar for next year’s Fete!
Sixty Years On
Prisoner of War’s Paintings go on show at Brandeston Art Exhibition
A remarkable collection of 24 paintings completed in a German prisoner-of-war camp is to go on show for the first time six decades later at the August bank holiday art exhibition held annually at Brandeston Hall near Framlingham.
Cyril Harrington, now aged 92 and living at Melton, was a captain in the Lancashire Fusiliers when he was captured in Belgium in 1940.
“As prisoners-of-war we had to be paid under the Geneva Convention and I used my pay to obtain paints; this was allowed as I was an artist”, he says. His German captors would buy the materials for him on visits to Munich.
The watercolours to go on show were produced at a number of prison camps, the first of them not far from Hitler’s ‘Eagle’s Nest’ near the town of Kitzbuhel. Others are of the surrounding countryside in Bavaria, Westphalia and other parts of Germany. Only a minority are of events within the camps.
The Brandeston exhibition, at which Mr Harrington’s pictures will e an additional attraction, has been a Suffolk’s bank holiday draw for over a quarter of a century. It is organised by the Earl Soham and District Royal British Legion. Proceeds go to help local ex-service personnel.
The branch Chairman, Commander Norman Woodcock, says: “It seems marvellously appropriate, as we this year celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the ending of the war, to be able to mount this additional exhibition to remind us of the resolution and courage of those who were wartime prisoners”.
The main exhibition has become a showcase for East Anglian artists. Each year over a hundred artists are invited to exhibit and over 500 pictures are on show and for sale in the Brandeston Hall school assembly room.
After the August 26th Private View the exhibition will subsequently be open to the public from 10.00 am until 6.00 p.m. on August 27th and 28th and until 5.00 p.m. on Bank Holiday Monday the 29th. Parking is free and admission £1 with no charge for children.
The Hearing Care Centre Charity Golf Day
Wednesday 7th September at Ufford Park Hotel Golf & Leisure Complex
We are writing to tell you about our wonderful golfing competition, raising money in aid of Hearing Dogs for Deaf People. Our goal is to provide a local person with hearing problems the support of a hearing dog.
The Hearing Care Centre has booked The Ufford Park Hotel, Golf and Leisure Complex golf course, together with the use of their luxurious function rooms and superb dining facilities for our Charity Golf Competition on Wednesday 7th September 2005.
The cost of the day as detailed below will be £75 per head, which represents marvellous value for money.
8.30 am |
Registration and breakfast of coffee and bacon baps. |
10.00 am |
9 Holes of Golf from the 1st & 10th tees |
12.30 pm |
Hot lunch |
1.20 pm |
9 Holes of Golf from the 1st & 10th tees |
5.15pm |
Prize presentations accompanied by high tea. |
In addition to the above there will be 18 Hole Putting, Nearest the Pin and Longest Drive Marker.
Competitions running throughout the day and balls to practice in Ufford Park’s new 32 bay State of the Art Driving Range.
May we invite you to come along for what is certain to be a splendid day at Ufford Park. Please register your entry on the form and send it together with a cheque for £75 per player, made payable to Hearing Dogs for Deaf People. Your support will assist us in our ambition to provide a local person with a hearing dog. Forms from Rosemary Macro, the Hearing Care Centre on Freephone 0800 0962637.
Earl Soham Bowls Club
Annual Tournament: Saturday, 10th September at 1.30 pm
Spectators will be most welcome at our popular tournament. Play will be continuous throughout the afternoon, refreshments will be available and there will be a draw.
Generously sponsored, once again, by Longstaff Transport, Redwood, Earl Soham (01728 685770), suppliers of all aggregates and equestrian surfaces
Ashfield Scrap Booking Group
The next meeting of the scrap booking group will be on September 15th at Ashfield Village Hall at 7:30 p.m. The group is open all, irrespective of age or sex (men can scrap book as well as women!). Do come along – it is a fun way to get round to actually looking at the many photographs one takes and then usually stick away in a draw.
Contact Wendy Jephcote on 01728 685690 for more details.
Friends of St Peter’s Cretingham
The Charity Golf Day organised by the Friends was played out in glorious sunshine on the 14th July at Cretingham Golf Club. The Friends are grateful to all sponsors for the event, particularly one main sponsor, Blocks of Ipswich. During the event players and organisers joined the nation in a silence of remembrance to the victims of the terrorist attacks in London. The day’s winners were T & D Tuckwell (first), N. Jackson and A.Turner (second) and G.Treen and G.Clarke (third) as well as the Friends who raised almost £1800 on the day, which included a raffle and an auction. Thanks to all who took part in this closely fought event.
The next two events put on by the Friends should not be missed. Firstly, on Thursday 15th September is a rare opportunity, by kind permission of Mr John Ablett, to enter Framsden Mill. Meeting at 6.45 p.m. at the Mill, with parking on the meadow, the trip will include a glass of wine and a raffle. The price is £6 and should provide a fascinating evening. To confirm a place, please contact Pamela Pinner, secretary, on 01728 685 406.
The October event takes place at St Peter’s Church on Saturday 8th October at 7.30 p.m. The play, the trial of the Cretingham murder, will be performed by a Woodbridge Group and is eagerly awaited. There will no doubt be a big demand for tickets, priced £6 adults (£2 children), so to guarantee a seat contact beforehand should be made with Pamela Pinner, secretary, on 01728 685 406, Eric Brown, on 01728 685 520, or ordered from Cretingham Post Office. Tickets will also be available on the day. Hope to see you there.
Tony Whitmarsh Chairman Forge Cottage
Ashfield Ladies Group
20th Sept |
Suffolk Witches |
Pip Wright |
18th Oct |
Something Different - Food demonstration |
Chris Christensen |
For further information contact Susan Hansen on 01728 685738.
Earl Soham - Rota for Altar & Roll of Honour Flowers & Brasses
Aug |
Mrs D Dale |
685608 |
Mrs S Edmundson |
685221 |
September |
Mrs M Simpson |
685301 |
Mrs A Wybar |
685472 |
October |
Mrs N Cotton |
685420 |
Mrs M Kerridge |
685700 |
If you are unable to do your flowers, please contact Margaret Buckland on 685329.
St Mary’s Ashfield - Flower & Cleaning Rota
August |
Susan Hansen |
685738 |
September |
Margaret & John Garrard |
685038 |
October |
Jill Robinson |
685084 |
If you are unable to do your month please contact another person on the list to arrange a swap