ALL SAINTS' GOLESHILL VILLAGE NEWSLETTERJIo^,^
October, 1970
The Rector's Letter.
My dear Friends,
I regard Harvest Festival as a very important Sunday in the Church's
year. For at least one Sunday out of fifty two, our attention is
focussed on saying "Thank you", and how very essential that is. In the
secular wcrld to-day, gratitude, and even good manners, are not readily
seen. This is another way in which the Church can give a lead - the
Church being you.
This may well be the place to repeat an old saying which you nay
care to cut out and put on your mantelpieces-
"I will pass through this world but once. Any good
thing therefore that I can do or any kindness that
I can show to any human being, let me do it now.
Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not
pass this way again".
This also applies to you as an individual; no one else can do
it for you.
lours sincerely,
Allan Campbell.
Rector.
NELSON'S PRAYER.
October 21st. 1805
" May the great God, whom I worship, grant to my country
and for the benefit of Europe in general, a great and
glorious victory? and may no misconduct in any one tarnish
it, and may humanity after victory be the predominant
feature in the British fleet. For myself, individually,
I commit my life to Him who made me and may His blessing
light upon my endeavours for serving my country faithfully.
To Him I resign myself and the just cause which is
entrusted to me to defend".
Amen, Amen, Amen.
Notes
At about 11 o'clock Lieut. Pasco, the Signal Lieut. of the
Victory went to make a report to the Admiral and found him on his
knees writing. He withdrew at once but afterwards the paper was
found, just as it had been left, and the above is what Nelson wrote.
Prof. G. Callender, M.A., M.R.H.S., Mem.Soc.Nautl. Res.
CHURCH REPAIRS
The Vestry roof is now being repaired under the supervision of our
Architects, Messrs. J.H. Martindale & Son.
For some long tiiae we have been anxious about its ability to keep
out the rain. lie trust when the first part of our quinquennial survey
repair is completed, we will be able to go ahead with some of tho other
pressing work.
JUiaiAGES
At All Saints' Coleshill, Saturday 5th September.
Raymond George Lineker and Teresa Diane Steel of Goleshill.
At St. Joseph's Gerrards Cross,, Saturday 12th September.
Jonathan Yardley and Jessica Chenevix Trench of Coleshill.
COLESHILL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.
The 25th Villape Sjiow
Torrential rain did not prevent exhibitors from talcing their
produce to this show on the 12th September for the entries were up
on last year in spite of the absence of a number of regular
supporters.
The Show was graciously opened by Mrs. Jean Smith and the
auction was conducted by Mr. Peter R. Donaldson.
Nineteen single roses, were entered for the Rose Bowl and
the new section for floral arrangement proved very popular.
Congratulations are extended to the organisers upon a
smooth running exhibition which entailed a lot of work before
and afterwards.
Gup Winners;
The Grindley Cup - open to residents who Mr. H. Aldridge (6th Year)
cultivate their own gardens
and allotment holders.
The Jerram Cup - for vegetables Mr. R.J. Beasley (4-th Year)
The Cotswold Cup - for flowers Mrs. C. Stanton
The Coleshill Cup - for preserves Mr. C.G. Pro-use (2nd Year)
The Edmund Waller Cup - for pastries Mrs. V.G. Darvill
The Wheatsheaf Cup - for children Miss Shane Riley
The Ovington Rose Bowl Mr. E. Post.
John Stuart Anderson
John Stuart Anderson, the distinguished solo actor, will be making
a return visit on Friday, l6th October, at the Parish Church of St. Mary1s
at 8 p.m. in the new solo dramatic programme entitled "The Living Word".
This unusual presentation includes a Biblical sequence followed by a
striking monodrama on the martyrdom of William Tyndale.
OBERaMMERGAU KEEPS ITS VOW
First performed in 1634-, the Passion Play of Oberammergau has been
presented to the world every 10 years for nearly 3lr centuries in fulfilment
of a vow made in 1633. In that year, the Plague was ravaging
Europe bringing a ghastly death to thousands. Eventually it reached
Oberammergau, a tiny village in Bavaria and over 100 of its inhabitants
died in agony. The survivors sought God1s help if he could spare them
and they promised to perform in thanksgiving a play about Christ's
suffering and death 'every 10 years from now until the end of time".
And from that day the story goes, there were no more deaths from the plague.
In 1680, it was decided to perform the Play in decade years, and in
May this year I was fortunate in being able to see a performance in this
36th season. The Play depicts Christ1s Passion, from the entry into
Jerusalem up to the Resurrection and Transfiguration. Although this is
probably the longest live dramatic production in the world - it starts at
8.15 a.m. and ends at 5 p.m. - the amateur players stage it 5 times a week
for 20 weeks, from May to September.
To be born in Oberammeirgau is to inherit a task which is also a
proud privilege. 1,700 of the Village's population of 5>000 play an
active part in the production and it appears that their lives are deeply
influenced by it. The outside walls of their houses are beautifully
frescoed with religious scenes and the whole village is dominated by the
great Cross on the Kofel mountain.
Two years before a Play year, a committee chooses the cast and the
players start to grow their hair and beards. Wigs, artificial beards and
make-up are not permitted. Many of the performers are shop-keepers,
farmers, hotel workers, etc., and during the season of the Play, they
and the rest of the villagers manage to accommodate feed and transport
more than 5>000 visitors each night as well as perform during the day.
(The Slops are closed while the Play is in progress). One meets and
immediately recognises the Players everywhere. The Apostle John served
me in his shop; Caiaphas drove our coach from the hotel; Mary Magdalene
helps her widowed mother run a guest house and morning and evening exchanged
blue and gold robes for an apron; the Virgin Mary is a school teacher
and so it goes on..... The music for the Play was written in 1815 by
an Oberammergau school teacher - the same beautiful moving music is
played and sung to-day by the orchestra and a choir of 50.
The theatre used to-day was built in 1900 and although the
audience is under cover, much of the stage is open to the sky; swallows
flit across the stage; Jesus enters Jerusalem on a live donkey; the
sound of cowbells and the sight of the majestic mountains beyond the
stage increase one's feeling of the involvement. No-one, I am sure,
could fail to be moved by the story, so glorious and heart rending,
yet so joyful in the way in which it unfolds.
Joan Dryden.
COLESHILL SCHOOL REQUIRES 2 MID-DAY SUPERVISORS.
Mr. L.vJ. Barker announces that two mid-day supervisors, Mrs. Street
and Mrs. Payne, are resigning after several years with the school. The
School is in urgent need of two capable'replacements. The job is for
!§• hours each day (11.4-5 a.Q. to 1.15 p.m. - ?ir hours each week). The
pay is 5/2fd. an hour and includes lunch.
Mr. Barker will be grateful if anyone who is interested will
contact him at the School.
Associated Board of Royal Schools of Music
Local Successes June - July 1970
Congratulations are extended to:-
Penelope \\ieedon Grade IV Organ with distinction
" IV Piano " "
" IV 'Cello with merit
Jeannette Darvill Grade VI Tenor Horn with merit
Lorna Pusey Grade VIII Flute with merit
MOBILE LIBRARY VAN - REVISED SCHEDULE
Calling at Coleshill on Thursday, 10th September, and alternate
Thursdays thereafter, the van will be ats
Rushymead 9.45 - 10.05 a.m.
Coleshill House 10.10 - 10.30 a.m.
Parish Rooms 10.35 - 11.05 a.m.
Old Parsonage 11.10 - 11.20 a.m.
+ JUMBLE SALE +
+ A Jumble Sale in aid of the Village Hall will be held *
+ in the Hall on Friday, October 2nd, from 7 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. +
+ Gifts for sale should be sent to the Village Hall on +
+ Thursday, October 1st, between 2.30 and B p.m. and requests +
+ for transport, if required, should be made to Mrs. Browne •»•
* (Amersham 4940) or Mrs. Ovington (Amersham 5233) +
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
Fri. Oct. 2 Jumble Sale in aid of the Village Hall
Sun. 4 HARVEST FESTIVAL
Thurs. 8 Mobile Library Van, Coleshill
lj.1. - Miss Joan Fraser "Simple Exercising".
Thurs. 15 Mothers' Union. Uinchmore Hill - Mrs. Hollingsworth.
Fri. 16 Solo Dramatic Performance by John Stuart Anderson
in St. Mary's Parish Church. 8 p.m.
Thurs. 22 Mobile Library Van, Coleshill.
Fri. Dec. 11 U'hist Drive.
Sun. Dec. 13 SPECIAL CONCERT in the Parish Church of St. Mary's - 3 p.m.
By internationally well-known musicians.
ST. MARY'S PARISH CHURCH, AMERSHAM.
Rector; The Revd. A. Campbell, M.I. (Cantab), Beaumont, Hervines Road, Amersham
(tel. 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
6.00 p.m. Sung Evensong.
Every Wednesday: 10.00 a.m. HOLY COMMUNION
Sunday, llth October. HARVEST FESTIVAL - see special notices.
ALL SAINTS' CHURCH. COLESHILL ^ ' {
SERVICES IN OCTOBER
October 4th HARVEST FESTIVAL
9.00 a.m. HOLY COMMUNION
6.00 p.m. Special Festival Evensong,
llth 9.00 a.m. HOLY COMMUNION
10.30 a.m. HOLY COMMUNION at St. Andrews.
18th 9.00 a.m. HOLY COMMUNION
25th 9.00 a.m. HOLY COMMUNION
3.00 p.m. Evensong.
N.B. Sunday, 1st November. - Patronal Festival.
St. Andrews Mission Church, IJinchmore Hill.
There is a celebration of Holy Communion on the second Sunday
of each month at 10.30 a.m.
Pro-Churchwardenss N.N. Nicholls (and Hon. Sec.) Orchard House (tel: 6734)
D. Powell-Price, Coleshill Lodge (tel: 3949)
Treasurer: R.G. Stubbings, Springfield, Tower Road (tel: 4738)
Assistant Hon. Sec.: Miss Asher, Radnor Cottage, Magpie Lane (tel: 6866)
Published by All Saints' Church Committee.
