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ST. MARY’S FINEDON
PARISH MAGAZINE
OCTOBER 2011
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Finedon Parish Church: St Mary The Virgin
Vicar: The Revd Richard Coles, Parish Priest,
St Mary the Virgin Finedon, The Vicarage,
Church Hill, Finedon, Northants, NN9 5NR
01933 681 786, Mobile 07885 967 960
email: [email protected]
Assistant Honorary Priest Fr Peter Baden,01832 733186
email: [email protected]
Parish Clerk Mrs Gill Foster Tel: 680364 (To whom first
contact for Baptisms and weddings must be
made).
Churchwardens: Mrs Jane Read Tel: 680522
Mr Neil Forster Tel: 682177
PCC Secretary: Mrs Gill Foster Tel: 680364
Treasurer: Mr Andrew Weatherill Tel: 682212
Magazine Editor: Mrs Janet Millington, Tel: 681161.
E-mail: [email protected]
(to whom all copy should addressed by
the 15th of the month prior to publication)
Director of Music Mr Jonathan Harris Tel: 01604 881182
Email: [email protected]
Deputy Organists Mrs. Kathy Roberts
Mr Oliver Grigg
Choirmaster: Mr. Bryan Chapman Tel: 398818
Tower Captain Mr Bryan Chapman, Tel 398818
Web Site www.finedonphotographs.org.uk/
bellringers.html
Archivist Mr John Bailey Tel 680747
St Michael’s Mission Room: Mrs Helen Watts Tel: 01933 398073
Times Of Services: Sundays
8.00 am Holy Eucharist
9.30 am Parish Eucharist.
6.00 pm Evensong (1st Sunday of the
Month)
Visit us on the Web at www.finedon.utvinternet.com
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From the Vicarage
October 2011.
Michaelmas, or the feast of St Michael and All Angels as it is more properly
known, marks the shift from September – the end of summer (!) – to
October – the beginning of autumn; and it is traditionally a time of new
beginnings. Partly that’s to do with it coinciding with the beginning of the
new term, for schools, universities and the legal profession; partly it’s to do
with traditional Michaelmas customs - it marks the end of the blackberrying
season, for example, because it was said that when St Michael cast Satan
out of heaven he fell in a blackberry bush and, in his fury, covered it with
spittle. Crumble, anyone?
It marks a new beginning here in St Mary’s too as we ‘roll out’ the new
services at eight, nine thirty and for baptisms too. I say ‘new’… of course
they aren’t new at all, they’re exactly the same, in substance, as what came
before, going right back to Geoffrey de Thouars’ incumbency in the early
thirteenth century. The words are a bit different, and at eight we’ll try the
traditional language so beloved of our forefathers (and mothers). What will
perhaps be more obvious is what we see. The altar we presently use,
between the choir and the congregation, is going and we will return to using
the high altar for the consecration of the bread and wine into the body and
blood of Christ. The Bible readings and prayers will all happen where they
are now, so really it’s just a question of shifting the action a bit earlier than
when we’re used to. The reason for this is to refocus our attention on the
altar as a place where something of unique significance is happening. To have
two altars in use obscures that, I think, and could make them look like
shelves to put things on rather than a place of encounter with the risen
Christ. It may take a while to get used to things changing; but I think it will
make for a crisper and more focused church experience, not just for us but
for visitors too. Let me know what you think.
Yours in Christ,
Fr Richard.
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Our Worship in October
Year A 2nd - 15th Sunday of Trinity (Harvest) Deuteronomy 8: 7-18 Psalm 65 2 Corinthians 9: 6-15 Luke 12: 16-30 or Luke 17: 11-19 Hymns 101 Come, ye thankful people, come 534 We plough the fields and scatter 436 Rise and shine Anthem: Greene Thou visitest the earth Send forth your, Spirit O Lord 9 All creatures of our God and
King Evensong 585 Thou didst leave thy throne Responses Tallis Psalm 136 v1-9 (chant 222) Canticles Reid 259 Forth in thy name Anthem: Greene Thou visitest the earth 603 Now the day is over 9th - 16th Sunday of Trinity Exodus 32: 1-14 Psalm 106: 1-6 Phillipians 4: 1-9 Matthew 22: 1-14 Hymns 329 Make way, make way 520 Thy kingdom come! on bended knee 484 T1) The King of love my shepherd is Anthem: God is our hope and strength (psalm 46) 171 God is our strength from days of
old 16th - 17th Sunday of Trinity Exodus 32: 12-23 Psalm 96: 1-9 1 Thessalonians 1: 15-22 Matthew 22: 15-22
Hymns 467 Tell out, my soul 63 Blest are the pure in heart 437 (T1) Rock of ages, cleft for me Anthem: Byrd Ave Verum Corpus 15 A ll my hope in God is founded 23rd - Last Sunday of Trinity (Bible Sunday) Nehemiah 8: 1-12 Psalm 119: 9-16 Colossians 3: 12-17 Matthew 24: 30-35 Hymns 139 (T2) For the healing of the nations 90 Come down, O Love divine In Christ Alone (sheet) Anthem: And now, O Father mindful of the love (32) 193 Hail to the Lord’s Anointed 30th October - All Saints Sunday Revelations 7: 9-17 Psalm 34: 1-10 John 3: 1-3 Matthew 5: 1-12 Hymns 565 Ye servants of God 296 Let all the world in every corner sing 259 Jerusalem the golden Anthem: For all thy Saints, O Lord (EH196) Give me the wings of faith (EH197) 134 For all the saints Organ Voluntaries following the 9.30am services 2nd October – G. Verdi: Grande March from Aida 9th October – D.Buxtehude : Chorale Prelude Eine Feste Burg 16th October – John Stanley: Voluntary VIII in A minor Op.7 23rd October – Christopher Tambling : Toccatino 30th October – Herbert Howells : Master Tallis’ Testament
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From the Registers Funerals
12th September Carole Anne Smith, age 64. Baptisms
4th September
Annabelle Grace Luscombe Rhys James Luscombe
11th September
Isla Mai Putman
Floodlight Sponsorship Week Commencing
28th August
Brian & Gill Foster To Celebrate Their 45th Wedding Anniversary 4th September. A Abbott & Sons Funeral Directors of Rushden 11th September
A Abbott & Sons Funeral Directors of Rushden Janet Maclean & Family in memory of Alan on his birthday 18th September
A. Abbott & Sons Funeral Directors of Rushden Mary Shipton & Jean Wills in memory of their dad Len Shelton Barbara, Pat & Families in memory of their sister Iris Foster Tracey Hawkes in memory of her mum Joyce Robinson 25th September Denis & Dorothy Howell in memory of Frederick Amos Howell Harry & Sue Nicholls- to celebrate the birth of their grandson Stanley Jack Nicholls.
Delia Kerr- family remembrance of Basil and Ivy Chappell and Eric Walker. Pat & Pete Donaldson to celebrate Scott & Katy’s wedding anniversary on the 23rd, Corey’s 40th birthday on the 25th.
Flower Festival
Committee Despite unsettled weather, we had a successful weekend with many people visiting our church. On behalf of our committee, I would like to thank everyone, from those who prepared our churchyard and erected marquees, to all the arrangers who again excelled themselves, for their continued support. To all who greeted visitors to our church and those who helped on the stalls. Many thanks to Jean and Tracey for organising wonderful refreshments again. Thank you to the Brownies for giving out buttonholes and thank you to Connie for making them all. We had a wonderful concert given by Jonathan Reynolds and Company on Saturday evening which was very successful. Thanks also go to Jonathon Harris our organist for organising with Gill Dunn, the recital on Saturday afternoon and for completing our weekend with visiting choirs for our Choral Evensong on Sunday Evening. Thank you again to all who came to support us, our weekend raised approximately £3,000 for church funds.
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In Celebration of the
400th Anniversary of the
King James Bible To celebrate the 400th Anniversary of the King James Bible and to raise funds towards the cleaning of our famous St Mary’s church organ which is nearly 300 years old (about £14,000 is needed), on Saturday 29th October we are holding a sponsored Bible reading in the Mission Room starting at 9am. If you have not put your names down to read but would like to support the Bible Reading then perhaps you can help by sponsoring someone who will be reading. The readings will take place between 9.00 am and 7.00 pm and tea and coffee will be available throughout the day.
Poem by Cheryl Harris
There was a "do" at the cricket
club, on a Sunday too, all day.
It was really entertaining, and
without a single affray.
Finedon folk were out in mass to
watch the cricket game,
The sun did shine for quite a while,
but in between was rain.
Everyone dressed in their Sunday
best, strutting to and fro,
If it happens again another year
then you should really go.
There was a celebrity cricket team
whose names I can't recall,
I think they must have been quite
good, they all seemed to hit the
ball.
The evening was the best bit, they
had a local band,
Complete with our rock and roll
Vicar playing the organ, it was
grand,
He was in a group himself many
years ago.
It was called "the Communards"
The name I'm sure you'll know.
He sang a little hymn first about a
green and pleasant land.
I think that it was "off the cuff", I
don't think it was planned.
We danced and sang along with the
band,
We clapped and then we cheered.
And then there was a huge applause
as Father Coles appeared.
He played along on the organ and
the band sang "don't leave me this
way"
The audience really did approve,
and goodness, did they sway!
the alcohol was still flowing, but
Neil and I were cold.
It was only to be expected , now we
are getting old.
We had to head for home though I
was sorry we had to go,
'cause the band still kept on playing
all the songs that I still know.
God must approve of rock and roll,
well it seems to me that way.
'Cause I definitely saw the Vicars
hips having a real good sway.
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Mothers Union The Mothers Union will be holding a ‘Bring and Buy Sale’ at the Mission Room on Tuesday 1st November at 2.30 pm. All are invited to come and join us for a cup of tea and a natter and you could grab a bargain. Hand-made cards for all occasions, including Christmas will be available. All the proceeds of the afternoon will go towards the fund for the cleaning of our famous church organ.
1st Finedon Scout Group
Finedon Scouts are having a Recycle Day.If you have any clothing, coats, shoes, handbags, soft cuddly toys, household linen, bedding including duvets and pillows that you would like to donate to the Scout Group (sorry no bric-a-brac) we will be collecting it at The Green, Well Street (by the Mission Room) on Saturday 1st October, from 9.30 am to 12.30 pm All funds raised will go to the Scout Group. Unlike some other Charity bag collectors, we cut out the middle man and keep all the profits to help our local young people. If you are unable to bring your bags on the day, please ring 07810047974 for a collection
Townswomen’s Guild The next meeting of the Guild will be held on Thursday 6th October at 7.30pm in the Town Hall. Our speaker this month is Eleanor Patrick who will talk about ' A Visit to Botswana'. The competition is for something out of Africa and there will be a Harvest Sale and refreshments. Visitors will be very welcome at a cost of £3.
Collectors To all my loyal collectors- please no more milk bottle tops, but do keep the rest coming in - tin cans, stamps, tin foil and if anyone has silk flowers tucked away in the drawer they would be useful Thanks for all your support.
Connie Piggot
St Mary’s Church, Finedon
Afternoon Tea in the Church
on
Sunday 2nd October
Between 4.30 and 5.30 pm
6.00 pm Evensong followed by
light refreshments
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Out and about
Lyddington Bede House situated 6 miles north of Corby and 1 mile east of the A6003. Originally it was built as part of the complex of the Bishop of Lincoln’s Palace until sequestration by the Crown in 1547 then it was handed over to the Cecils of Burghley in 1600. he remaining building of the Bishops Palace was then converted into the Jesus Hospital later known as the Bede House. Until 1930 it housed 12 poor men over 30 and 2 poor women over 45 who have a good trade and were free of leprosy, lunacy or the French Pox. Their well sized rooms occupied by the poor residents and the Bishops Great Chamber can still be explored. Next door to the Bede House is the Church. The Church is very well cared for and the carpets, rodeos curtain and hassocks are all colour co-ordinated in light brown which gives the Church a very neat and well ordered appearance. The altar is enclosed on all four sides by an altar rail. This caused some
strife in the 16th Century with dissention between the Bishop and Clergy at the time. A pleasant afternoon trip to a pretty village.
Finedon Local History
Society
The next meeting of the History Society will be held on Monday 24th October in the Mission Room, Well Street at 7.30pm. The speaker will be John Bailey who will give a talk entitled „Finedon Past‟. Admission is £2.00 for members and £3.00 for non-members including light refreshments. A raffle will also be held.
Church of St Mary the
Virgin, Finedon
Meat Bingo on
Friday 14th October
at the
Mulso School,
Wellingborough Road at 7.30 pm
Admission Free
Refreshments available, Raffle
Everyone Welcome
Transport available. For details please telephone
Andrew Weatherill 682212
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Finedon Community
Centre
The Best Little Whore House in Texas
Thursday 6th to Saturday 8th October
A Centre Stage Production perform this popular play directed by Peter
Darnell. Tickets £9 adults & £7 concessions from: 07970 632244
Finedon Sessions Live Music Night
Friday 4th November 7.30pm
A sensational triple bill for fans of roots music featuring the Graham
Robins Band (promoting their latest CD ‘The Shipping News’), Nicky Swann (powerful, original and
versatile female singer/songwriter) and Jack Blackman (16 yr old
bluesman as featured on BBC Radio 2). Tickets £8 each from: 01933 398377. Real ale bar available.
Christmas Market & Craft Fair
Sunday 20th November 11am-3pm
Finedon Community Centre are holding their annual
Christmas Market & Craft Fair and still have tables available at
£10 each for local people that make their own crafts and wares..
This year the event is being opened by the Rev. Richard Coles and the
Mayor of Wellingborough, with Father Christmas in his Grotto for
the Children and home cooked delights in the kitchen.
Please phone Pam for information on: 01933 398377
at
St Mary’s Church, Finedon
on Saturday
19th November 2011
at 8.00 pm
The Mynx Soul Band performed
from 1966 in Dagenham and
played at the same venues as Brian Poole & the Tremeloes and
Tony Rivers & the Castaways
Reformed in 2009 to play
traditional 60’s Soul Music from the greats such as Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett and Eddie Floyd.
Tickets £6.00 from:
Jane Read 680522, Janet Millington 681161,
Janet Harris 681217
Joyce Williams 398767.
All proceeds will go to the Church
of St Mary the Virgin, Finedon
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Welcome to Library
Plus
Books and much more!
Membership of the library is free
Books for all tastes and ages, including large print and audio books
Rent the latest DVDs and CDs for one week
Adults and children can borrow books for up to 3 weeks
Items can be returned to any library
Renew or reserve your books by phone, online or in person
Activities and services for children include homework clubs, free bookstart bags, rhymetimes and the Summer Reading Challenge
Free access to 1000’s of internet sites through the e-library
For a nominal fee you can hire a computer with full access to the internet along with wordprocessing and scanning capabilities
On Fridays all access to computers is FREE
The Library in your area is: Finedon Library, Town Hall, Berry Green Road, Finedon, NN9 5JL.Tel:
01933 680208, email: [email protected] opening hours: Monday – closed Tuesday - closed Wednesday–Friday 1.00pm 6.00 pm Saturday 10.00am – 2.00pm Mobile Library Service:
The mobile library visits Finedon on the fourth Thursday of every month. The stop is on Walkers Way from 7.00pm to 7.20pm.
Home Library Service:
If you are unable to visit a library for reasons of age, disability or infirmity, you are entitled to the Home Library Service . Home Library Service customers receive a free personal library service with a range of books, talking books, music and information selected according to their own preferences and delivered to their home by a volunteer. If you care for someone who cannot be left alone, then you may also be eligible for this service. For more information phone 01933 225365.
Friends of the Library:
Finedon is one of the many libraries now supported by a ‘Friends’ group. Further details of the group are available in the library. More information on Northamptonshire Libraries and Information Service can be found at www.northamptonshire.gov.uk
Church Monthly Draw
Total receipts of £295.00 are divided equally between the winners and the Restoration Fund. Winning numbers for the September monthly draw are: 1st Prize No. 93 £73.75 2nd Prize No. 41 £44.25 3rd Prize No 294 £29.50 If you would like to join the monthly draw (£1.00 per share per month) which takes place on the first Sunday of the month, please contact Kathy Hobbs on 01933 398794.
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In My Day
the ramblings of Hubert James
In my day it was about this time of year that Finedon would find itself in the middle of a baby boom. Now then this was all down to winter power cuts. You see when your radio splutters into silence and you can barely see the spots on your domino you have to make your own amusement. Course, you might naturally turn to whistling in the dark or scratching through the bottom of the old kitchen cupboard for that last candle and some matches. In them days we all had matches. So there we were, early autumn and midwives pulling their hair out and wishing for a decent nights sleep. But then that sort of crisis always brought the best out of Folk around here. So new parents of twins; Terry and Pam Purse turned their hands to nappy design. Within weeks of the birth they’d had enough. At the end of his tether Terry wanted to throw the towel in, but then it dawned on him that if he cut up the towel he could make some super absorbent nappies.
Pam Purse was too busy with feeding to develop her own idea until years later. Then there was Eric, one of our local singers who was obsessive about keeping his new son clean, particularly at feeding time. He got his wife to sew some strips of ribbon on a square of material and invented the Bibb. Mind you some of you will only know Eric Bibb for his singing. Even our local tramp got in on the act. In them days every town over a certain size employed an ancient scruffy individual to act as a tramp or road man. Ours was from Ireland. Michael O‘lean. He was a great big round ball of a man who‘d turn his hand to anything to earn a farthing or two. Every Thursday he‘d lie on the green and charge parents to let their little ones use him as a bouncy castle before such things had ever been thought of. The kids loved doing somersaults on the tramp O‘Lean. It was years later that Wickstead invented the swing and the world changed forever. And finally, - you‘ll be glad to hear - there was the rich folk. They could afford to pay experts to look after their babies. Many came from an agency in Dublin run by the O‘Pear family. But the majority came from north of the border. They were happy to change nappies at very competitive rates. You might not realise but this payment became known as Nanny Muck Fee..
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The Archdeacon of Oakham
writes
“Are you looking forward to retirement?”
What a question! Yet it is one that several people have been asking me in recent weeks, and I can only reply, “yes and no”. It will be nice, I confess, to shed some responsibilities, and to live life at a slightly gentler pace, but I do not relish the prospect of saying good-bye to so many people who have become dear friends, and who over the years that I have been here have given me an enormous amount by way of support and encouragement.
Yet Jesus taught us a great deal about letting go, about looking ahead, and about moving on. All four Gospels testify to the dynamic element of his earthly ministry, and this is particularly true of Mark‟s account of that ministry, where Jesus seems to be constantly on the move, not because he was restless in a negative sense, but because there was an urgency about his mission and about his sense of call – “I must go on to the other towns and preach
there also”.
It is precisely this sense of urgency that we need to keep before us as we work for the future life and growth of Christ‟s Church today, and to do that we need also to foster a sense of excitement and expectancy in our own discipleship. It is so tempting to opt for the comfortable and the familiar, but Jesus is always calling us to fresh challenges, to new risks, and we are never too old to discover new opportunities for service in his kingdom.
So I am hugely thankful for the past, and for a storehouse of joys and memories which I shall treasure in retirement. But I am even more grateful for the fact that I have been given the chance to stay in this diocese, which has become home to me in a very real and deep sense, and to explore a new way of living, a new way of being a priest, and – please God – new depths of his love, and a renewed calling to ministry and witness.
Those great words of Dag Hammarskjold come to mind. “For all that has been, thanks! To all that shall be, yes!”
David Painter Archdeacon of Oakham
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Around the diocese
Come and worship at Choral
Festival Evensong
Around sixty choirs from across the diocese have been busy rehearsing music for this year‟s Diocesan Choral Festival. The festival service is on Saturday 8 October at 5.30pm at Peterborough Cathedral and everyone is welcome to come.
This year the festival celebrates the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible. Andrew Reid, Musical Director, has composed new settings for the evening canticles using texts from the King James version of St Luke‟s Gospel. “I‟ve written them so that they can be used by small church choirs in four parts (with or without organ) as well as by the cathedral and festival choirs,” he said.
For Andrew, enthusing singers and enriching the repertoire of choirs in our churches is one of the key aims of the festival. “Music is such a powerful God-given tool for worship,” he says. “It‟s thrilling to work with so many
people who really care about choral music in worship. Choirs now exist only in some of our churches, and it‟s important for the future of music in worship that they thrive.”
Bill Wright, secretary to the festival, is looking forward to this year‟s service. “We are expecting the biggest attendance for the last five years judging by the interest shown in the rehearsals,” he said. Preliminary rehearsals have been held at venues around the diocese but all the choirs finally come together at the cathedral on the afternoon of 8 October, to practice prior to the service at 5.30pm.
The Dean of Peterborough Cathedral, Charles Taylor, will give a series of short talks during the service, which will use the traditional Evensong liturgy. There will also be a presentation of Royal College of Church Music Awards to singers from the diocese.
Thinking ahead to next year Andrew Reid says: “I would strongly encourage singers to have the confidence to take part, because we are all imperfect ministers and need each other‟s encouragement and guidance in our ministry. Singing with hundreds of others does give you a buzz, and enlarges your vision of what is possible.”
You can be part of the congregation and join the choirs in their worship.
Photo: Andrew Reid, Director of Music at Peterborough Cathedral
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Real Easter Egg company
reveals Christmas tree
campaign
A campaign to make the UK’s 20 million
Christmas trees a bit more meaningful
this December has been launched. To
help parents, grandparents and
godparents communicate the Christmas
story to the next generation, The
Meaningful Chocolate Company has
produced the UK’s first ever interactive
set of chocolate Fairtrade tree
decorations, based on the Nativity story.
Each box of Meaningful Chocolate Tree
Decorations contains a limited edition
Christmas card, a sticker set and six
hand wrapped, high quality, Fairtrade
chocolate decorations. The Christmas
story, which can be found on the card,
enables adults or children to read the
story while placing character stickers on
the decorations and hanging them on
their tree.
The decorations cost £3.95. Church
orders can be made through
www.MeaningfulChristmas.co.uk or
exclusively from Traidcraft. Orders
should be made by 14 November 2011
as supplies are limited.
October events Sat 1, SHINE, at All Saints, Earls Barton.
www.shine-northamptonshire.com
Sat 1, Music in Lyddington: Ching-Yun Hu, piano. 7.30pm at St Andrew’s,
Lyddington LE15 9LN. Tickets £12
(students £2). Tel: 01572 820017.
Sat 1, Craft Fair Burton Latimer St Mary,
10.30am - 4pm. Tel: 01536 357676.
Sun 2, Organ recital by Chris Benton,
3pm, St Peter & St Paul, Northampton.
Sun 2, Organ recital by Ian Curror of The Royal Hospital, Chelsea. 7.30pm, St
Matthew’s Northampton. Free entry.
Wed 12, The birth of the King James Bible. A talk by Bishop John Flack,
7.45pm at St Benedict’s, Northampton.
Sat 15, The Cantus Choir and Orchestra, 7.30pm at St Mary's, Ketton. Haydn, Bach. Tickets £9 from 01780
721005 or on door.
Sat 15, Sing for Life, 2.30pm and 7.30pm at Kingsgate Centre, Peter-borough PE1 4YT. In aid of Cancer Research UK. Tickets £22 - £11 from
www . ticketsource . co . uk/event/16133.
Sun 16, St Luke’s Kislingbury Patronal Festival, 2.30pm. An afternoon of
readings from St Luke's Gospel.
Fri 21, Quiz Night, Barnwell Village Hall, 7.30pm. Tables of 8. Tickets £10 inc. fish & chip supper from Barnwell Post
Office or 01832 275816.
Sat 22, Malcolm Sargent Festival Choir.
7pm at Peterborough Cathedral.
Haydn, Fauré. Tickets £20, £10, £5 from 01733 355315. Malcolm Sargent was pupil to Dr Haydn Keeton at Peter-
borough Cathedral 100 years ago.
Fri 28 to Sun 30, Bloxham FaithFest, a new literary festival with a theological slant. Speakers include P.D. James, William Fiennes and Jane Williams.
www.bloxhamfaithfest.co.uk.
Sat 29, Music in Lyddington: The Brodowski Quartet. 7.30pm at St Andrew’s, Lyddington LE15 9LN. Tickets
£12 (students £2). Tel: 01572 820017.
Sat 29, Northampton Male Voice Choir,
7.30pm St Peter's, Cogenhoe. Tickets
£5. Tel: 01604 890206.
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Available for hire weekdays and Saturdays. Suitable for most social functions, charitable events, children's parties (no late
discos)
All enquiries and information
Mrs Helen Watts Tel: 01933 398073
(Between 6 pm & 8 pm or by letter to 46 Well Street, Finedon)
St Michael’s Mission Room, Well Street, Finedon
October
1st 9.30-12.30 Scouts Recycling Collection The Green
2nd 4.30-5.30 Afternoon Tea, St Mary’s Church 6.00 pm Evensong
3rd 7.30 RBL, Dovecotes, Colin Ray, Bowls Club
4th 9.45 Coffee Morning, Bowls Club
6th-8th The best little whore house in Texas, Community Centre
8th Peterborough Choral Festival FIWC Table Top sale
10th 7.30 WI Mission Room, AGM, Glamour for the over 60’s,Sylvia Smith
11th 10.00 Coffee Morning Football Club
13th 7.30 The Windmill Singers at the Chapel
14th 7.30 Church Meat Bingo, Mulso School
18th 9.45 Coffee Morning, Bowls Club
19th 7pm Inter Church Quiz night, Wesleyan Chapel
24th 7.30 Mission Room, History Society, Finedon Past, John Bailey
25th 10.00 Coffee Morning, Football Club
29th 9am-7pn - Sponsored Bible Reading, Mission Room
November
1st 2.30 Mothers Union ‘Bring & Buy’ sale, Mission Room
3rd TG 7.30 Town Hall, David Wilson ‘Dialects’
4th 7.30 Finedon Sessions, Community Centre
6th 6pm Requiem Evensong, St Mary’s Church
7th 7.30 RBL, AGM, Bowls Club,
14th 7.30 WI Mission Room, Victorian Magic Lantern Show, Dr Mike Lewis
19th 8pm The Mynx 60’s night, St Mary’s Church
20th 11-3pm Christmas Craft Market. Community Centre
22nd 7.30 Mission Room History Society AGM & Slides
December
1st TG 7.30 Town Hall, Nicola ‘The History of Pantomime’
2nd 7.30 St Mary’s Church Wassail Evening Mulso School
3rd 11-2.00 pm FIWC Christmas Bazaar
8th 7pm Community Carol Concert at the Star Hall
5th 7.30 RBL, Entertainment at Woodford
12th 7.30 WI Christmas Party
Town Diary
