ALL SlIMTS^ COL^HILL VILLAGE H5BSIETTBR No. 41.
July 1969
I should like to say a personal thank you to all of you who made the
church fete the success it obviously was. But I'm quite sure the general
impression the church gives in the community at large should not be one of
fund-raising or asking for money. This is far from the commission given
to it by our Lord which is to bear the message of salvation to all men and
to incorporate them in the family of the people of G-od. The church has
been given Christ's job of reconciling man to G-od in this world and therefore
also of reconciling man to man. The church will fail unless it is
seen to be about its main task. In the world we live in the general impression
people give is important. Money and material matters are necessary
if the church is to do her work, but never let us give anyone the idea that
they are our main concern, and our main concern must always be &od and the
people. This is why the best churches always solve their financial problems
internally by a very thorough system of planned giving on the part of
all their members. Our baptist friends, I suspect, set us an example here,
and this is something we church people must tackle.
'I LIKE WHAT I LIKE'
It's roughly a year now since we started using the new Eucharistic
rite, the new Communion service. It's quite surprising how it has caught
on and become accepted. To say that is not to say that it is without its
faults in detail - I should be among the first to level detailed criticisms
of it. But on the whole it's an improvement on the rite of 1662 and the
congregation have recognised it as such. This makes me confident that people
are willing to accept new things (new forms, new words, new music) if
they're worthwhile, and won't just stick doggedly to what they were brought
upjwith when they were young. After all, those things were new once. We
Christians are called to safeguard the essentials of our faith and keep
them the same, but to adjust and change the accidentals according to the
times we're living in. May G-od give us the grace to tell the difference
between the two'.
In these last few days before the final decision on the present
Scheme for Union between Anglicans and Methodists on Tuesday 8 July, please
pray that G-od's will may be done in the matter. We shall be having informal
prayers at church at the actual time of the debate and voting - 7 p.m.
on the 8th. v Yours. in/,. Ch.r is.t,
J. S.-Nightingale.
BALLET SUCCESS
Congratulations to Jennifer Jane White of Lourdes, Barrack Hill, who
passed G-rade 1 of the Royal Academy of Ballet examination on 7th June.
I-HiS OPEN HM AT BDSIffllBAD
The residents at Rushymead old people's home were fortunate in having
fine weather for their open day on Saturday June 7- Everything went very
well and many .well-Mishars lent .a hand. The nett amount raised *as
£106,10s. and the Matron, Miss E.G.Astridge, would like to thank all
those who helped to make it such a happy and worthwhile occasion.
AjgDRSHAM No. 2
For some the advent of the automatic telephone in June was not an
unmixed blessing. When the telephone first came to Amersham, the post
office of course had the telephone number Amersham 1, but Mr G-.Darlington,
the local builder and undertaker, had the good fortune to become
the first subscriber with the enviable number Amersham 2. Last month he
lost this distinction and unfortunately has a 4-figure number like the
rest of us now.
A LINK WITH NORTH MABSTON
When, to our intense regret, the Eevd. J.E.Charrington left Coles-
. hill in 1962, he beoame vicar of North Mars ton and G-ranborough, not so
far away, and he and Mrs Charrington took up residence in the vicarage
at North Marston. .
The church of St. Mary the Virgin, North Marston is a handsome edifice
of great architectural beauty dating from the llth century. Years
ago it gained more than local fame through the many miracles worked at
the shrine of Master John Schorne, a rector who held the living from
1290 to 1340. The shrine was removed to St G-eorge's Chapel, Windsor in
1478. In the churchyard, there is the grave of John Camden Nield, a
talented eccentric .miser who died in 1852. Nirld, who was educated at
Eton and Cambridge, was called to the Bar in 1808 and upon thf death of
his father in 1814 he inherited a large fortune, including considerable
property in Buckinghamshire which he would visit twice a year to collect
rents. Upon his death he left his entire fortune of some £250,000 -
apart from a few small bequests - to Queen Victoria. The Queen accepted
the legacy, increased the various bequests and later restored the chancel
of North Marston church, presented an east window with fine stained
glass and a reredos of sculptured Caen stone. The rest of the legacy
was used to purchase Balmoral estate. In the absence of Queen Victoria,
the Prince Consort is held to have planted an oak tree behind the vicarage
and when the Charringtons went there the view was restricted by an
unsightly coppice. Wisely they htd the saplings felled but forebore to
touch the Prince Consort's oak whioh they left in isolated splendour.
As with our own Parish ohurch of St Mary's and local church of All
Saints' , North Marston church is in sad need of restoration and a fund
was opened in 19^7 • In the special circumstances, a donation was received
from Her Majesty the Queen. CEO
lie are very pleased to hear of the good progress made by Mrs Jessie
Pusey, the enrolling member of our Mothers' Union, after the operation on '.,.
her foot. We've missed seeing her about, but are delighted that things
have turned out so satisfactorily for her.
IN THE HOLLOW OF HIS HAND
He shewed me a little thing, the size of a hazel-nut, lying in the
palm ofjiis hand, and it was as round as a ball. I looked thereon with the
eye of my understanding and thought, 'What may this bet' . And it was explained
in general thus - 'It is the whole creation'. I marvelled how it
could last, for methought it might suddenly have fallen to nought for
littleness. And I was answered in my understanding - 'It lasteth, and ever
shall, because G-od loveth it' .
From one of the visions of the Lady Julian of Norwich 1373.
UNIVERSITY SUCCESS
Mr Martyn Dryden, the son of two All Saints' church people, has just
gained a B.So. degree in electronics at the University of Canterbury, and
he has been accepted at Leeds University for the year' s course for a Diploma
in Education. Martyn, who is only 19, hopes to teach Physios.
HOLY BAPTISM
On Trinity Sunday, 1st June, Barren James Lee, second son of Mr & Mrs
E.E.G-. Lee of 19 Pond Close, Winchmore Hill, was made a Christian and join
ed the family of Christ's church at Evensong at All Saints'. Jeremy Robert
Farr was also baptised at the same service on the following Sunday,
3th June, at Coleshill. His parents live at Sunrakers Cottage, The Bit,
and also have two charming daughters.
On his marriage to Mary Ellis, Thomas Ellwood. the early Quaker, took
a house at Hunger Hill (Ongar Hill) near Coleshill, and he gave directions
to find it in verse:
'Directions to my friend inquiring the way to my house
Two miles from Beaoonsfield, upon the road -
To ;Amersham, just where the way grows broad,
A little spot there is called Larkin1 s G-reen,
Where on a bank some fruit trees may be seen;
In midst of which, on the sinister hand,
A little cottage covertly doth stand;
"Sohoi" the people out ani then inquire
For Hunger Hill; it lies a little higher.
But if the people sliould from home be gone,
Ride up the bank sone twenty paces on,
j* And at the orchard1s end thou nay1st perceive
Two gates together hung. The nearest leave,
the furthest take, and straight the hill ascend,
That path leads to the house where dwells thy friend.'
Prom 1662 Ellwood was a close friend of Milton, but perhaps we
may be pardoned for saying we can understand why his poems have never
enjoyed the fame gained by his great friend.
MUSICAL SUCCESSES
Congratulations to Penny Wee don of Potters Meadow who got 88 and 80
in two solo competitions in the Chalfont St. Peter Arts Festival, 86 in
musical composition, 85 in quick study, and the House Cup for sightreading.
A bursary entitling the winner to a week' s residence at a British
Federation of Music Festivals summer school was awarded to 14- year-old
Michael Griffiths of Field-End House, Magpie Lane, who was second in the
instrumental junior class. He plays the bassoon.
The competition took place at the end of May«,
COMING-OF-AG-E
Congratulations to Miss Loveday Pusey of Little Lands, Barrack Hill,
who reached the age of 21 on. Sunday, June 22nd.
COLOURED PEOPLE IH BRITAIN
There are at present about 55 million people living in Britain and
of these about 1^ million are coloured; 180,000 of these coloured people
were born here. According to the estimates made by the Race-Relations
Board our population by the year 2000 will be 70 millions of whom
2^- million will be coloured. Another interesting forecast is that if
all the dependents of coloured people at present living here were to
come from overseas to join them they would total roughly 236,000.
(These facts were given by Sir G-eorge Sinclair, M.P. for Dorking and a
member of the House of Commons Select Committee on race relations in a
recent wireless broadcast).
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE: BEST-KEPT VILLAGE COMPETITION
The preliminary judging of the competing villages will be between 1st
and 15th July, and the final judging before 31st July. The decision of the
judges will be final. Presentation of the Cups and Signs will take place
on Saturday, 13th September 1969.
The method of awarding points will be as follows: (a) Each village
will commence with 100 points; (b) Points will be deducted in accordance
with the following schedule where the particular feature does not come up
to the judges' requirements:- Marks to be
deducted
G-eneral Well Kept appearance Up to 25
Hedges and fences adjacent to and surrounding buildings
and gardens; " " 10
Churchyard and /or Cemetery " " 10
Surrounds to school and playground " " 10
Playing fields " " 10
Tidiness of flower and vegetable gardens " " 10
Tidiness of allotments in cultivation " " 10
Surrounds to Villag^ Hall " " 5
Surrounds to War Memorial not in a Church or Churchyard " " 5
Ponds and streams " " 5 •
If a village does not possess one of the Points to be judged, an "X"
will be marked against the item on the marking sheets. These will be taken
into account by the Chairman and Vice-Chairman when calculating the percentage
of marks gained by the Village.
The purpose of the competition is to encourage consciousness of litte
and other factors tending to spoil the amenity of the villages.
Please get in touch with Mr S.Ware of Littlelands, Barrack Hill if
you can help the village in any way to win this award. Perhaps all villagers
would like to help in one quite' easy way - picking up any rubbish or
litter they see as they walk ab^ut. This is something the youngsters could
very easily do.
VILLAGE HALL COMMITTEE
The.Village Hall Committee announce:
(a) the next meeting of the Committee will be on Mon.25th August at 8.15pn
(b) instead of the G-ala Evening provisionally arranged for October 17, the
Committee propose to hold a Hallowe'en party on October 31st and people
are asked to book the date. Further particulars will be announced later.
112' LiROT/JI-i _EE14!
When Rushyniead had such glorious weather for its open day, it seemed
too much to expect similar luck for the church fete on the following Saturday,
but the sun shone on bravely and although it was sultry there was ,
no hint of rain. Little Bowers, through the kindness of Mr & Mrs R.Pusey,
again provided a lovely setting, fcrs Pepys, wife of the Bishop of Buckingham,
opened the fete and made a point of buying from every stall and
speaking to as many people as possible. We were glad to see that she was
rewarded by two lucky draws from the tombola. Coleshill can be sure that
the Bishop will remember us favourably next time he has recourse to the
whisky and gini
Mrs Pepys judged the fancy dress competition and the prizes went to
an ingenious fire engine (and driver), a poodle disguised as a sheep
(with shepherdess) and a Miss Muffet. The Raans School Band gave the Royal
garden party touch, assisted by music provided by Mr Woolacott who
also worked hard making the announcements. The Mothers' Union worked
like trojans in the heat providing an excellent tea and coping with all
the washing up.
Our thanks are due to Mrs Ovington for making the preliminary arrangements,
and especially to ;Ir Nicholls for doing so much hard work, and
to all the stall-holders and helpers, many of whom worked throughout the
previous months making and collecting the goods and prizes. The gross
takings were £294.14.5<l(with more to come in) and this after the expenses
of just under £40 will be put to church funds. Particulars of the
takings of individual stalls are ca the church notice-board.
COME AG-AIN
Said to our organist, Mr Ward, by a villager after a service: 'Did
you play the organ? Oh, I do think you played beautifully. I do hope
you'll come again,1
PORTHC"?MIN& EVENTS ,= . .
July ———————————————————————
2 (Wed) Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
3 (Thur) Mobile library at Coleshill and Wiachmore Hill
4 (Pri) Church Youth Club's Jumble Sale in the Parish Room at 7.30
8 (Tuea) Final National Voting by Anglicans & Methodists on the proposed
Scheme of Union at 7 p.m. Prayers in church at that time
Baptist Sisterhood at 2.45 - Mr Tiling on Dr Barnado's Homes.
10 (Thur)W.I. at 2.30: Madaaa Dash - "My Village in Prance"
15 (Tues)Church Council at St.Mary's School at 8.15p.m.
17 (Thur)Mothers' Union meet at White's Hill at 2.30
Mobile library at Coleshill & Winchmore Hill
22 (Tues)St.Mary Magdalene - HC: 10a.m. Baptist Sisterhood 2.45 - Open
meeting before closing down for the month of August
25(Fri) St.Jaaes the Apostle - HC 12noon
26(Sat) St.Anne - HC: lla.m.
ALL SAINTS' CHURCH. GOLESHILL
Priest-in-Charge: The Revd. J.3.Nightingale,The Parsonage (tel.Am.4229)
Pro-Churchwarden & Secretary:N.N.Nicholls, Orchard House (tel. 6734
Pro-Treasurer: R.G-.Stubbings, Springfield, Tower Road (tel. 4738)
Every Sunday: 9.00 a.m. HOLY COMMUNION
10.15 a.m. Sunday School
6.00p.m. Evensong
Every Tuesday: lO.OOa.n. HOLY COMMUNION
Every Wednesday: 7.30p.m. HOLY COMMUNION
Every Friday: 12.noon HOLY COMMUNION
Morning and Evening Prayer each day at 7 a.m. and 6 p.n.
For other services, please see the weekly notices in the church porch.
ST. .ANDREW'S MISSION CHURCH. TOJCHMORB HILL
HOLY COMMUNION on the 2nd Sunday of each month at 10.30 a.m.
ST. MARY'S PARISH CHURCH. AMERSHAM
Rector: The Revd. A. Campbell M.A.(Cantab), Beaumont, Hervines Road, Amersham
(7135) or St.Mary's Parish Office, Church Street, (tel.4712)
Sunday Services: 8.00 a.m. HOLY COMMUNION'
10.00 a.m. Children's Service
11.00 a.m. 1st, 3rd & 5th Sundays:
HOLY COMMUNION (New Service)
2nd & 4th Sundays: Mattins
6.00p.m. Sung Evensong
Every Y/ednesday: 10.00 a.m. BDLY COMMUNION
Published by All Saints' Church Committee.
