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March 1963
My Dear Friends,
Lent has never been an easy time to keep properly,, but then it has
never been easy to be a Christian - properly.
If we spent more time with the Gospels during Lent, reading and
studying a portion each day, I am sure we would be more worthy disciples
of our Lord, The temptation stories are the obvious ones to read first
and that important verse, St.Matthew 4-.10 - "Thou shalt worship the Lord
thy God and Him only shalt thou serve".
The third temptation suggests that success will consist in the capture
and not the conversion of the world. There would be little profit
in the children of men crowding the Church of God unless they became
children of God. The purpose of the season of Lent is not to get crowds
into churches but souls into heaven.
You may like to use the following prayer each day during Lent:-
For ^he Spread of Truth at Home
0 C<>d, who in ancient days did raise missionary servants to bring
the Gospel to these islands, grant that in our day the message of Jesus
Christ may go out to our people with renewed power through the written
word. Raise up writers who can speak of the needs of our time with
unfaltering faith and with a winning simplicity: through Jesus Christ
our Lord. Aiaen. „Y ours s.i ncere.l, y,
Allan Campbell. Rector.
CHURCH NEWS
At long last, it has been possible to replace the overhead electricity
cable leading to the Church by a more powerful underground
cable into the vestry. To this have been added two large night-storage
heaters which have made all the difference to the heat and comfort of
the Church. A very well worthwhile piece of work, e-jcpensive, but
money well spent.
It has now been possible to dismantle the old chimney to which the
overhead cable had been connected. The chimney space has been tiled
over and so eliminates one of the leaky places in the roof. The flat
roof over the vestry, however, leaks badly and must be replaced. At
the moment it is only covered with asbestos and has accumulated two or
three inches of soil, weeds and grass. It is hoped to carry out work
on this during the suiorser.
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Many graves have been disturb3d and bulbs and plants en them dug
up by dogs.
Will all dog owners please note and endeavour to see that this is
stopped,
KgJwAl^Jg^RLAL
The War Memorial, being so close to a large evergreen tree, is
prone to collect a dirty green deposit from the tree.
Over the past three or four years, efforts to clean it with soap
and water etc. have been less and less effective. The Parish Council
has agreed to have it cleaned professionally and a local firm of Stone
Masons has been engaged to carry out the work,
It has been suggested that some residents of the village may wish
to contribute to the cost of cleaning. Any contribution, however small,
will be most welcome and should be sent to Mr. Sydney Ware, Littlelands,
Coleshill. The minimum cost is expected to be about £40.
COLESHILL FACTC ?.Y CLOSING DOYflNT (?)
There is a grave risk that tha workers who make beautiful cot blankets
for Magila Hospital may have to stop work. This is not due to a
strike but to a complete lack of wool. Can you please cons to the
rescue and let Miss Williams have any wool left over from your knitting
so that the babies can be kept warm.
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Mr. Creber flratefully acknowledges the receipt of a donation of
10/- for the Church Restoration j?und from Mr. Ec F. Shrinpton, who sends
best wishes to his friends in Coleshill.
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Parishioners are asked to support the Dramatic Performance at St.
Mary's on Ash Wednesday at 8p.u.. Tickets are obtainable from Mrs.
Ovington.
FROM T T;:C_CIjT3C H .ISKIgTER
Harold Llewellyn Adams, disfl 20th January; cremated at Chiltern
Crematorium on January 29th. Ashes interred at All Saints., January J>1^
1..I.P.
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"by Joan Bryden
I was"extremely fortunate to be one of the people invited to go to
California with Dr. Kenneth Abbott, Head of Music at Ambassador College,
St. Albans, and his choir of students. The choirs from the two sister
Colleges at Pasadena end Texas joined us and the complete choir was about
250 singers, together with the four well known British soloists, Sheila
Armstrong, Maureen Lehane, Robert Tear and John Dethick. We gave two performances
each of "Elijah" and "Messiah" in the Civic Auditorium, which
holds 6,000 people. 1-11 tickets for the four performances were sold before
we arrived in California and the audiences were wildly enthusiastic
about our music. We discovered that oratorios are seldom . performed
there and although many people were familiar with sections of the works,
very few had ever heard a live performance of either of them. We were
accompanied by the Pasadena Philharmonic Orchestra, which was very competent,
but not inspired. It was obvious that most of the players were unused
to this kind of work and they had very little idea of how to accompany
recitative.
Rehearsal.s and concerts occupied us for most of" the first ten days of
our stay but for the whole of the last week we were free for sightseeing.
The Callege lent us a 'bus and a driver and we made the most of this
generosity.
Pasadena is really a suburb of Los Angeles - a city which extends
for over 50 miles in each direction from its heart. There are 8 million
inhabitants and 8 million cars, but as the area has been built up since
the advent of the motor car, there are few traffic hold-ups. All the roads
have at least six lanes and on the Freeways I saw as many as 12 lanes.
These enable traffic to flow quite quickly, although if one gets in the
wrong lane, it can mean up to 25 miles extra on one's journey to rejoin
the Freeway. Mountains surround the whole area, which is built completely
on desert. Except for the shopping streets, which have very wide sidewalks,
there are few pavements and walking on such roads is not only dangerous
but extremely dusty. Most of the houses are of one storey only,
due to the incidence of earth tremors. Few have occurred of late, and here
and there apartments of up to six storeys are being built - although these
look sadly out of place. In a climate such as exists there ( it was winter
and the temperature averaged 85 degrees F.) one finds few flowers as we
kno¥-r them, and such as there aa?e look washed out and faded. Many houses
have no gardens at all and the few lawns we saw were made over built-in
sprinklers. These are turned on for a large part of every day. In contrast,
citrus fruit trees abound and one can gather fallen oranges, lemons
and grapefruit to one's heart's content along the roadside.
Among the more memorable plc.O-es of interest that we visited, were t
Hollywood, Sunset Strip and Beverley Kills, where we saw the fabulous
mansions owned by film stars - tl.j only dwellings, in fact, built on
the hillside, all other buildings being located on the flat dssert;
various parts of Los Angeles - tto Spanish Quarter, Chinatown - one of
the largest Chinese communities ia the U.S./..; the New Music Centre
which cost 35 million dollars and which consists of three magnificent
halls, built on a plaza hig.i above the city; the harbour choc-a-bloc
with Japanese merchant shipping; Long Beach - certainly not our idea
of a beach, but rather a huge sandy area with every inch of space
occupied by oil-drilling anl pumping apparatus. To our eyes, the only
redeeming featxire there was the familiar sight of the "Queen Mary"
whose magnificence overshadowed the otherwise tawdry scene; the obser- :
vatories at Mount Wilson anl Liount Palonar to see the 100-inch and the
200-inch telescopes - the litter being the world's largest, with a
mirror weighing 16 tons; bho University of Southern California, a new
enormous campus on a most b3nutifui site; Universal Studios, where
many of my illusions regarding fila-;.uJd.ng were shattered; Marineland,
with its performing seals, /hales, porpoises and dolphins; Disneyland,
?/hich in our ignorance we hid supposed, to be a giant funfair. No-one
could be more surprised thaa lire viere to find that it is a unique 160
acre park lodged in America! folk-lore. Here one goes down Main Street
into Frontierland, Adventurolond and Touiorrowland, rides a river-boat,
a submarine, a monorail train, a rocket to the moon. There is certainly
nothing else like it in the T.vorlu; Enotts Berry Farm, a 200 acre
authentic 1350 ghost town where one csii pan for gold (I had no success;
ride a stage coach and Ghost Railroad; The Huntington Museum and
Library - the Art Gallery there contains nothing but old English furniture
and a wealth of old English masters (G-ainsborough, Reynolds, Constable,
Turner), a continual source of attraction to the local population
To crown an unforgettable experience, we were favoured with a
cloudless sky for the first half of our return flight and were thus
afforded magnificent views of the Mississippi, the Rockies, the G-rand
Canyon (which even from 35,000 feet showed up as an immense dark chasm
enclosed by massive red mountains) and the snow covered peaks of
Canada, Labrador and Greenland.
THOSE PYLONS
Once upon a tine, life was siople. To obtain light, we lit a talloi
candle. To get wan.i, we lit a log fire. Then there were aore of us and.
we wanted a lot of heat, light and power and we wanted a constant supply
at prices which we could afford. That entailed centralisation and iaassproduction
- power stations, hydro-electric stations, atonic stations
and gas fron the North Sea - which brought in problems of distribution.
It was not practicable to carry the power underground; it had to
be carried by overhead cables held up by pylons. The Electricity Authorities
have done their best to follow the contours of the country with
their cables and we are beginning to look at the cah-.es with a blind eye
as vire want the pov/er.
Now the Electricity Authorities say that they have to put up a substation
and switching station, covering some 50 acres, with the inevitab:
pylons, sonewhere in the neighbourhood. The site has been the subject
of nuch controversy and last August there was a public enquiry into the
suggested site at Mop "End, the result of which should be announced withi:
the next month or so. Naturally, the local Residents Association and tb
Chiltern Society are particularly interested in this project.
T7e thought that no such problems would arise with the 1,300 miles
of large dianeter pipes - the grid - which is to carry North Sea gas all
over the country. The local feeder runs from Whitwall in Herts to Ascot
in Berks, past Ley Hill Connon to cross the Chess west of Latiaer and
the Misbourne east of Anershan, It then runs southwards a little east
of the B.473 (the Anershan-Beaconsfield road), turns west near Hedgerley
and then with Burnhau Beeches on the East, goes south to the Thanes.
It now transpires that the G-as Council plans to control the p res sun
of gas by telemetric control and has applied for permission to erect an
instrument house at Hedgerley. It is not known whether the Council
intends later to apply for permission to erect a 100 foot mast near the
house and the Chiltern Society has urged the Eton,R.B.C. to take full
account of the G-as Council's ultimate intention for the site. The
Society is reminded of the G-as Council's constant assurance that it is
nost anxious to safeguard countryside amenities.
BRITISH BED CROSS SOCIETY
A course of Home Nursing lectures will start on Thursday, 29th February
at S.OOp.ni. at the headquarters in Chiltern Avenue. All are welcoc
TJS^L JSO2
A Whist Drive in aid of tha School funds will be held at
Coleshill School on Wednesday, Sth March at 7.30p.m., when Mr. J.
Ware will act as M.C.. .^daissisn will be by ticket (2/6d)
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Bridge players are askocl to reserve the evening of Friday, 19th
April to attend a Brid.jo Dr...v-3 being organised by the Committee of
the Village Hall to augment foiids v>hich are being depleted by the
cost of repairs and decoration.
The sane partners will remain together all the evening and will
meet other pairs according to v.iiether they win or lose the various
games. This is a new departure in Coleshill and bridge players are
asked to make up parties and bring in friends from outside the
village as well as local players. The price of admission will be
5/- per person and tickets will be obtainable from Mrs. ^rowne,
Mrs, Ovington or any memjer of the Connittee.
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Sun. Feb. 25 Araershau-wLth-Cc'ieshill Annual ^eneral Meeting at St,
Mary's Church Rooms, immediately following Evensong.
Wed. 28 ASH WEDNESDAY, ^oly Conaunion All Saints 11 a.m.
Dramatic performance at St. Mary's 8p.n.
Fri. Mch 1 Women's Da/ of Prayer. Baptist Chapel,Coleshill 2.30pa
Tues 5 Sisterhood - Revd. E. Chambers
Wed 6 School Whist Drive
Thurs 1/f Mobile Library Van - Coleshill
W.I, Mrs. 7illiauson & Mrs Thirlway "Public Speaking"
Tues 19 Sisterhood. Open aeeting arranged by Mrs. Chambers
Thurs 21 Mothers Union. Annual ^eneral Meeting, Winchnore Hill
28 Mobile Library Van - Coleshill
Wed. Apr. 17 Annual &en3rol Fieting - Village Hall
Fri Apr. 19 Bridge Dri/e in :he Village Hall
Sat. June 8 Church Fet3
SERVICES
ALL Si.~NTS. COLESIiILL
Eve ry_ _ Sunday;
9.00a.m. parish Conaunion
lO.OOa.a. E-'i,,aday School
2nd & 4th Supiays:
6.OOp.n. Evensong
THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST. MARY.
AMERSHAM
Every Sunday;
S.OOa.a. Holy Conuunion
lO.OOa.n. Children's Service
o.OOp.ni. Evensong
1st f 3rd__&_^th Svindays ;
ll.OOa.n. Sung Eucharist
2nd & 4th Sundays:
ll.OOa.a. Mattins
RECTOR: The i'iovd. Allan Caapbell,M.A. Beauaont, Hervines Rd,Anershan
Tel: Anershaia 11.
or Thfc Parish Office, Anershan. Tel: Aaershan 1712
PBO-CHOBCHRAF^EN: C. Saunders, Chapel Cottage, Coleshill
PRO-CHURCHWABiM & HON. SECRETARY: N.N.Nicholls, Orchard House, Coleshl
Tel: Aaershan 1834
HON. TREASURER: &.T.Creber. Applecroft, Meadowcot Lane, Coleshill
Tel: Aaershan 3350
Published by A,l Saints Local Church Committee
