May 1996 - St Peter`s Berkhamsted

In this issue
Sergeant
Pepper is
Innocent!
Starting
University
Christian Aid
Appeal 1996
Sunnyside
Story
Ashlyns in
Venezuela
This month’s
Music & Events
May 1996
The Parish Magazine of
St Peter’s with All Saints’
Welcome to the May issue of the Review.
As you will see opposite, this month
marks Rev. John Tabor’s last contribution
to the Review, at least for the time being.
As a contributor for many years his
perceptive and thought provoking pieces
will be missed. We thought the least we
could do this month was to use our leader
column for Rev. Tabor’s ‘swan song’!
Let me draw your attention to two
further articles. Christian Aid Week,
which this year runs from 12th to 18th
May, is an important event in the church
calendar. Page 14 carries an article which
describes the work that this year’s fund
raising will be supporting. Nearer to home
and only a couple of months away is our
own Petertide Fair, on 29th June. Two
overseas causes, each with local links, will
benefit from the proceeds from the Fair.
More details on page 23.
I must finish with an apology. The
more eagle-eyed reader would have
noticed (which is more than I did) that on
page 3 of last month’s issue I attributed
Jean Cooper’s photograph to Jean Green.
Our parish secretary assures me that
contrary to rumours she wasn’t a
stowaway during Jean Cooper’s epic bike
ride around India!
Chris Smalley
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In this month’s issue...
Sergeant Pepper is Innocent
Stephen Halliday tells the story behind
the concert.
Ashlyns School in Venezuela
Seven local youngsters plan a modernday adventure.
Starting University - 2
Our continuing series with three more
Berkhamsted young people telling us of
their initial reactions of college life.
Sunnyside Story
R. Brinklow reflects on when Sunnyside
was self-sufficient in the 1930s before
being swallowed by Berkhamsted.
Christian Aid Appeal
A background briefing on Christian Aid
Week (12th-18th May).
Around the Town
Bones, high society life and nicknames
come under John Cook’s scrutiny.
... plus our regular features, PCC News,
notes & notices and your letters.
David Woodward, 3 Murray Road (862723)
Barbara Belchamber, 38 Gaveston Drive (864933)
Chris Smalley, 18 Osmington Place, Tring (826821)
David Woodward, 3 Murray Road (862723)
Daphne Montague, 27 Hill View (875320)
Miles Nicholas, 46 Fieldway (871598)
John Cook, The Gardeners’ Arms, Castle Street
Responsibility for opinions expressed in articles and letters published in this Review and for the
accuracy of any statements in them rests solely with the individual contributor
Next Copy Dates (all Fridays): 3 May 7 June 5 July
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review leader
This will be my
last contribution
The Rev John Tabor,
to the Review as
Rector of
Rector
of
St
St Mary’s, bows out Mary’s, since, by
reflecting on change the time this
appears in print, I
during his ministry. shall have retired
from full time
service as an ordained minister of the
Church of England after twenty rewarding
and happy years at Northchurch. I hope
however, God willing, to play a full and
active part in the life and ministry of the
Church for many years to come.
As I have been looking back over the
years since I began training for the
ministry at Ridley Hall, Cambridge, in
1965, I have been reflecting on the
momentous changes there have been not
only within the life of the Church, but also
in the life and culture of our nation. Some
of these changes have been very much for
the better, especially the greater part
played by lay people in the life and
ministry of the Church, and the increasing
responsibility they have been given.
During these years, however, there is
no doubt that as a nation we have drifted
further and further from God and from the
Christian foundations on which our pattern
of life and institutions has been built. One
consequence of this has been the rising
tide of crime which blights the life of so
many people today, especially those living
in inner city areas, or on large council
estates.
I have a personal memory of the way
this affects people’s lives. My aunt in
Plymouth, who died in 1993, lived in the
same house for sixty-seven years. Until
the early 1960s she and her neighbours
were able to leave their outer front doors
open all day long without fear of being
burgled or attacked. In her latter years the
situation was very different. Everyone
kept their door locked, many had spyglasses fitted to them, and when my aunt
was
alone,
she
was
invariably
apprehensive when there was an
unexpected knock on the door.
One of the most profound changes
which has taken place in this period has
been the rejection of the concept of natural
law, which springs from a belief in God as
Creator. St Paul, for example, in his letter
to the Romans argues that if we look at
creation with an open mind and are willing
to seek the truth, we shall see something
of God’s character revealed in it.
Furthermore we can also see how God
intends us to live from the way he has
created us. Men and women are by nature
created for each other; so to St Paul
homosexual and lesbian relationships are
unnatural, and
continued on page 18
Thank you, Good
Luck, God Bless
This is the 247th article which
Rev John Tabor has written for
the Review. Sadly it is his last at least for the time being. We
thank him for his unstinting
efforts and for the warm cooperation he has shown from St
Mary’s towards St Peter’s and
All Saints’. We wish him every
good fortune in the future and
God’s blessing on the next phase
of his life.
The Editors
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Private
Chapels
of Rest
Bones
Each in his narrow cell for ever laid
The rude Forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
So wrote Edward Gray some 250
years ago in the best known elegy in the
language. He was of course on about
Stoke Poges churchyard, only half an
hour’s drive into Buckinghamshire from
here.
I am afraid the sleep of the rude
Forefathers of Berkhamsted is always
being disturbed by construction works of
one sort or another. When the little
boundary wall at the west end of St
Peter’s churchyard was rebuilt recently
lots of human bones were dug up: skulls,
vertebrae,
fibulae
(my
anatomy
knowledge and Latin plurals were never
sound), and so on. It is unlikely that
bodies would have been buried right up
to the edge of the churchyard, so this
strongly suggests that the original burial
ground extended further to the west,
taking in what is now the end of Church
Lane and perhaps the land now occupied
by shops in the High Street. We know
from old pictures that buildings existed
in the churchyard at various times, and
there was once a cottage built right
against the church near the west end.
There are a surprising number of burial
grounds still to be found around the Town.
In the middle of the last century if you were
a Quaker you would have been interred in
the little garden round the Friends Meeting
House (dated 1818) in the High Street, and
there are still some of the original
gravestones
to
be
seen
there.
Congregationalists would have been buried
in their cemetery in Chapel Street, and some
gravestones, even a large tomb chest, survive
around the present United Reform Church.
Baptists would have been laid to rest in their
own burial ground which now largely forms
the garden of Wilson House, the residence of
the headmaster of Berkhamsted School.
When St Peter’s churchyard became full
a new churchyard for Anglicans and don’tknows was opened up Rectory Lane, and this
was later enlarged to become what we now
know as Three Close Lane cemetery. Then
when that was full Kingshill Cemetery was
opened for everybody. There the principal
source of disturbance to the tranquillity is the
increasing noise from the ever-growing
volume of traffic on the nearby by-pass.
War Memorial
The rebuilding of the churchyard wall has
left the Town’s war memorial more open to
the street, and its situation improved a little
in what is really a rather unsatisfactory
cramped site. It was only moved to its
present position in 1952 from where it was
originally: on the pavement in front of what
is now Sketchley’s.
Its designer was Charles Quennell, who
lived in Crabtrees in Gravel Path and was
the father of Peter Quennell, the writer and
critic who died a year or two ago. He also
designed the Lady Brownlow memorial on
Gaddesden Green which closes the vista as
you look up the hills as you drive through
Ashridge Park past Ashridge House. Neither
of these monuments is in my view at all
distinguished; Charles Quennell was a better
historian than architect, and he and his wife
wrote a series of books History of Everyday
Things in England which were very popular
and still in print up until a few years ago.
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Hostess with the Most
The current exhibition at
the Royal Academy to
mark
the
100th
anniversary of the death
of Lord Leighton, the
very talented if somewhat
flashy Victorian artist,
includes a large portrait
of the Countess of
Brownlow, painted in
1879. She is described on
the
caption
as
a
passionate gardener, and
the background to the Ashridge House, a popular venue for Victorian high society gatherings.
portrait depicts studies of
nature at Ashridge.
Most of these visitors would have arrived
Although the formidable Lady and departed by train, and the Brownlows
Marion Brownlow was still alive at that had their own waiting room at Berkhamsted
time she was no longer the Countess but station. It is still there, by the side of the
the Dowager. This portrait is of entrance to the station car park.
Adelaide, a beauty who was happily
married to the 3rd Earl Brownlow for 50 Names and Nicknames
years. She was a great society hostess, It is interesting the way the names of familiar
seemingly entertaining at one time or objects can change, and what used to be an
another everyone who was anyone. unusual or foreign expression turns into the
Among her guests at Ashridge or their recognised name. A few years ago everyone
London house in Carlton House Terrace called the railway station just that. Now more
were her close friend the Princess of often that not young people particularly call
Wales; Carlyle; Disraeli; the Gladstones; it the train station. Some older residents still
John Ruskin; the painters Edward talk about Back Lane; newer residents and
Clifford and G.F. Watts; Oscar Wilde; the authorities only know it as Church lane.
I am thinking about starting to compile a
E.F. Benson and H.G. Wells. Lord
Curzon, later to be perhaps the most list of Berkhamsted nicknames. It would
powerful Viceroy of India, met his future have to start with Berko for Berkhamsted,
bride while staying as a guest of the although for those who think this is vulgar
the alternative franco spelling of Berceau
Brownlows at Ashridge.
Notable royal visitors to Ashridge may be preferred. Pubs tend to have
House in Adelaide’s time were King nicknames: for example the Rising Sun is
Alfonso of Spain and the Shah of Persia. known as the Riser, and the King’s Arms as
The Shah toured a number of great the KA. As for people, Jim Milburn, the
English country houses as well as kilted character often seen bicycling around
Ashridge in 1889, and he left a bad the Town and who has helped the Scouts for
impression, ‘owing to his disregard of decades, has been known to generations of
European moral conventions and the boys as Bo’s’n. There must be dozens of
uncleanly habits of his suite’. One longs local nicknames. If you know of any do
please let me know.
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I
the children of the
shanty towns doing
workshops which
n July 1996 a group
we have planned,
of seven lower sixth
such as painting,
formers
from
teaching English or
A group from Ashlyns School is
Ashlyns
School
even building them
plans to go on an
a play area. It is
planning a modern adventure.
expedition
to
here that Spanish
Helen Appleyard describes
Venezuela. This is
will be vital as none
what’s in store.
a very exciting
of the people will
opportunity for us
speak any English.
to visit an area of
After this we will
the developing world, but as proper move on to Merida and prepare for another
explorers rather than tourists. It will no trek. This time it will be for five days in the
doubt be an amazing and very cloud forest in the west of Venezuela. After
memorable experience and one which the trek we will move to the coast for two
will change the perspective we have on days on a desert island learning and
our own lives.
practising survival techniques. Finally there
The expedition is ‘organised’ by a will be time for two days rest and recreation
company called World Challenge. at the end of the expedition, before we have
However they are very much in a to return home, no doubt different people. A
supportive role and it is up to us as the very busy month!
expedition members to plan the itinerary
A large part of the expedition began
for, and run, the expedition itself. The months ago - that is, raising the phenomenal
Ashlyns pupils and a teacher will be sum of money it will take to get us there in
joining a group of six from a school in the first place. Each of us is hoping to raise
Bury St Edmunds to form the expedition over £2,000. We have already been involved
team. Although the linking with another in many activities to help raise the money.
school is likely to be a difficult part of These include car washing, car boot sales,
the expedition, I also think it will be a market stalls, car parking duty at the school
valuable one. I am sure we will often craft fair, tombolas, sponsored walks,
find ourselves in trying circumstances sponsored swims, setting up and running a
and this may be even harder with people school tuck shop and odd jobs. We are also
we do not know well. It will mean a lot extremely grateful to organisations in the
of character building as we have to get to town who have lent support to our
know, and learn to work with, other expedition.
people.
A fitness scheme is needed to get us all in
We have now planned a rough shape for the physical strains we will be
itinerary for our expedition. We fly to under. We also have to learn Spanish which
Caracas and then move on to Ciudad will surely prove invaluable, especially when
Bolivar where we have to prepare for our working with the children in the shanty
first trek. This includes buying food and towns.
bargaining to hire guides.
All our
The expedition is going to be a very
equipment, food and clothing has to be demanding and challenging experience. It
carried in our back packs. We will then will test us all and no doubt change us. The
set out on a six day trek in the Gran World Challenge ethos puts a great emphasis
Sabannah. This is to be followed by a on team work. Each expedition member will
week’s
community
work
in
Barquisimeto. We will be working with
Expedition to
Venezuela 1996
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take a turn in leading the
group. Together we will
have to meet the challenge
of a new country with its
different cultures, language,
food,
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We will call
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In the second of two articles, three
more young people from
Berkhamsted recount their first
experiences of college life.
I
n the weeks leading up to the start of
term, university still seemed a long way
off in the future. It did not really hit me
that I was leaving home until I was
actually in my halls of residence. I was in
my room with my Dad when there was a
knock on the door. There was a large
group of people standing in the corridor
smiling at me and I thought they must be
second or third years trapped into being
nice to freshers. I was wrong. They were
I
was a little apprehensive before I came
to Bournemouth because I didn’t know
what to expect and I was starting a new
chapter of my life. However, I realised that
everyone was in the same situation which
made me feel a little easier.
The first week of term was called
Freshers Week specially designed for first
year students (freshers). Plenty of social
events are organised for everyone to meet
new people. Lectures start properly in the
John Appleyard
Alastair Hill
Reading Computer Science at
Southampton University.
Reading Information
Systems Management
at Bournemouth.
in fact first years looking to meet people
and I guess similar things happen at other
universities. Everyone is in the same
situation and so everybody is as keen to
make friends as you are. One problem
with this was that I was left with a ‘friend’
who copied my work and kept coming into
my room without knocking. I have since
met people whom I like much more.
I had previously been told that ALevels would be the hardest work I would
ever have to do. This was not true. The
problem with work is not how difficult it
is but that there is so much of it - at the
moment I have five pieces of coursework
running concurrently.
E-mail is a great way of staying in
touch with friends who have gone to study
elsewhere as most universities provide free
Internet access. You can send a message
and it will arrive at their computer in a few
minutes.
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second week. I really enjoyed meeting
new faces, sharing common feelings and
having fun. Meeting new people and
having a hectic social life has never
stopped. I feel this is one of the main
reasons for coming to university and the
part I have most enjoyed.
The bad parts of university? There are
no bad parts - only irritating elements. For
example, the greatest problem is the
increasing lack of money that students are
getting. A government grant may not even
cover your basic accommodation rent for
the year, let alone books, clothes, social
life and more. It begins to seem that
universities should send out job ads with
their letter of acceptance so that students
can earn the necessary cash!
There is plenty of work with deadlines
all within days of each other, so there is
increasing pressure on students to organise
(continued on page 13)
I
f I were asked to imagine the ‘typical
student’, my response would be
immediate - and twofold. Firstly, with the
mild sense of outrage that is the historian’s
privilege, I would dismiss the idea of a
student stereotype as a concept of minimal
practical value. Then, with the experience
to which any student can lay claim, I
would begin to reflect on the fascinating
medley of imagines that Durham life will
never fail to evoke.
I would probably conclude that,
although the student population is as
diverse (and deranged) as one could
possibly hope for, there is yet a curious
commonality about all varieties of student
life - so much so that to meet another
student is always to feel some simple
sense of identification.
The boredom of lectures, the essay
Jessica Irons
Reading French and
History at Durham
University.
crisis as the deadline begins to loom
maliciously on the horizon, the remarkable
tendency towards coffee and conversation
which consumes endless hours of the day
and night - all these are experiences to
which any student can relate; experiences
so well known as to have become clichés
in themselves. And yet, encountering them
all for the first time, there is nevertheless a
sense of surprise and excitement.
Few students can have failed to marvel
at their comparatively empty timetables,
seeming, after the sadistic schedule of ALevels, like some newly-discovered
garden of Eden: an oasis of time to be
used fruitfully, and yet with the fruit of
temptation ever at hand. And few students
can have failed to experience a certain
subversive excitement at the relative lack
of supervision, that test of self-discipline
which many take such pleasure in failing.
To defend - and to continue to believe in -
one’s original ideals and standards of
behaviour is a test not only of
determination, but also one’s own strength
of character. And there is little support for
those who wish to take any stance against
the casual morals of the student world.
The solution, in my experience, is not to
remain in a state of permanent shock and
anxiety at the depths of student depravity,
but to take a metaphorical step backwards
- and smile. In the case of disturbing
screams, shouts and crashes in the corridor
outside, locking the door is an added
precaution, but the real conquest takes
place in the mind. To survive student life
while remaining oneself, and to retain
some sense of calm amid the hectic world
that is university may seem at times to be
impossible, but it is a goal definitely worth
achieving
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A Correction
In Part One last month I wrongly
abbreviated the name of the
college where Cathryn Eller is
studying. This should be given its
full title of the University College of Ripon and
York St John, which is situated in York. I compounded my error by adding an extra letter to
Cathryn’s name. Profuse apologies.
HDW
Alastair Hill (continued from page 12)
their time effectively and try to find a
happy medium between meeting deadlines
and keeping up a social life.
At university there is a great sense of
freedom and enjoyment. You are your
own boss and you respect that. The
atmosphere among the other students I’ve
been with is friendly and warm with
people wanting to know you.
™
Thanks once again are due to Marjorie
Bowden for her help with this series of
articles.
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CHRISTIAN AID WEEK supports work
in more than 60 countries worldwide,
enabling poor people to help themselves.
In addition to giving emergency aid, it
funds local projects that bring about longterm benefits to local communities.
Christian Aid Week is still the UK’s
largest house-to-house charity collection.
Last year 250,000 volunteers delivered
over 17 million envelopes nationwide and
collected over £9 million.
But who are these volunteers? Well,
they are people just like you - people who
care about the plight of the poor and feel
they can help to alleviate suffering by
giving a few hours of their time. It’s not an
easy job, and it may seem like a small
contribution, but it does make a huge
difference to those in need.
A good example of what Christian Aid is
doing comes from Peru, in South
America. When terrorists attacked their
homes in the Andean Highlands, many
Quecha Indian families fled, taking with
them only essentials for the journey.
Among them were the Asto family,
who walked for days before reaching the
Huancayo area. They had nowhere to
live, no jobs and no money, but they were
helped by IDET, a local organisation
funded by Christian Aid.
IDET provides loans to help families
start their own business. A loan from
IDET enabled the Asto family to buy a
lathe, a chain saw and some wood to start
a chair-making business.
The proceeds help to feed and educate
the family, which means that they can live
independently and retain their dignity,
whilst providing their children with a
chance of a better future.
Space for photo
Members of the Asto family (Photo: Christian Aid/Paul Lowe/Magnum)
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Christian Aid urgently needs
collectors in your area and
asks you to consider whether
this is something you could
do.
If you can help this very
urgent cause, please contact
Ted Lewis (864352) if you
attend St Peter’s or Jean
Meyer (862648) for All
Saints’.
PANIC
All Saints Sunday School have
established links with a village
in Romania. Vivienne Bull
explains how it started.
T
he first thing I noticed when I
copied the map for the children was
that Romania looked like a fish.
This sign gave me heart to go ahead with
our project.
My husband’s sister (now deceased)
married a Hungarian who escaped from
Hungary just before the revolution. Their
two sons have grown up bi-lingual, and
with a deep commitment to helping the
victims of the communist regime.
In 1994 All Saints’ Sunday School
wanted to send presents to needy children
via Father Christmas, and so our project
was born. Those presents were sent to
Romania with my nephew Andrew when
he went with one of the ‘Transylvania
Direct’ convoys.
However, in 1995 Sunday School
decided they wanted to know more about
the people we were trying to help.
Andrew and his family visited us in
October and gave a talk with colour slides
to the children of Sunday School and
Pathfinders together with their parents,
and we have made contact with a
particular village in Romania called Panic
(pronounced Ponnich).
The aim was to send each family with
children a Christmas greeting. We fell
short on numbers, but 80 cards were sent
with each child giving his/her name,
address and age. The church in Panic
matched families with similar age children
where possible.
Our party on 23rd December saw
Father Christmas take three large boxes of
presents destined for the nursery school,
middle school and upper school, and we
have tentatively asked the rest of the
congregation if they would like to become
involved. On or two already have.
Sunday School on 28th January
brought great excitement as half a dozen
children produced beautiful postcards
from Panic children making contact! At
Easter we received an Easter card from
our friends and we now know that several
All Saints’ families are in correspondence
with families in Panic. Watch this space!™
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A branch office of the Dacorum Volunteer Bureau in
Berkhamsted offers information and guidance on
voluntary work in Berkhamsted and the surrounding
villages. We know the local organisations that need
volunteers, the jobs that need doing, when and where.
Contact us if you are thinking about voluntary work - we
can give you details of a wide range of opportunities. You
can then consider your options before committing
yourself. Voluntary work should be enjoyable, so the
correct choice to suit your interests and available time is
important. We will be pleased to help you.
Berkhamsted Volunteer Bureau is open on Tuesdays
9:30am - 12:30pm at Gable House, Prince Edward Street,
Berkhamsted (866051 - ansaphone).
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Most small towns
should become a
SERGEANT PEPPER IS
have some small
lasting feature of
INNOCENT
claim to distinction.
the town’s life. In
Amersham has its
the years that have
Market Hall. Tring
followed
the
Stephen Halliday looks at the
has a fine museum
concerts
have
and the Rothschild
history of a major local event, due steadily expanded
connection. Aylesboth in numbers and
to take place in July.
bury, apart from its
in scope. They now
ducks (now rarely
take place over four
seen), has a link
evenings at the
with John Hampden, the great parliamenGirls’ School Centenary Hall, whose
tarian who was killed in the civil war and
theatrical layout and large stage are ideally
was for many years M.P. for neighbouring
suited to the demands of the occasion.
Wendover. Berkhamsted, for a
This enables the organisers to
town of its size, has a disaccommodate
over
two
proportionate
number
of
thousand people over the four
associations and achievements
evenings and yet demand for
to its name: a fine motte and
tickets continues to exceed
bailey castle; the Grand Union
supply. lt has been found
Canal; several authors including
necessary to import a generator
Graham Greene, Kingsley Amis
from a cross-channel ferry to
(born in Shrublands Avenue)
produce the electricity required
and
the
historian
G.M.
for the lights and sound
Trevelyan; some fine schools, one of
systems: otherwise apparently there is a
which has a link with the Thomas Coram
possibility that Berkhamsted would be
foundation; and others too numerous to
plunged into darkness as the concert
mention. To these I think we can now
reaches its climax!
add, with some confidence, the Sergeant
Virtually everyone associated with the
Pepper foundation.
event gives time, talents and materials free
For those readers who have been byof charge or at a nominal price. The
passed by this phenomenon I will briefly
standards of performance are extremely
recount its short but colourful history. In
high and those who attend are occasionally
1987 Karin Breakwell, who worked as a
surprised to find fellow-citizens whom
school secretary in the town, suggested to
they recognise as hairdressers, taxi drivers
her husband Robert, a keen and talented
or checkout operators displaying musical
musician that, in 1988, they should
talents which are not evident in their
organise a concert called Sergeant Pepper
normal occupations. Local companies
comes of age which would celebrate the
advertise in the programme to the two
twenty-first anniversary of the Beatles’
thousand people who attend the concerts.
Sergeant Pepper album. Sadly, in 1988,
In 1993 and 1994 these included many
Karin died after a long struggle with
French children participating in the
cancer at the age of 31. The following year
Berkhamsted-Beaune exchange.
They
her husband, Robert, organised a concert
were unable to attend last year because
at Berkhamsted School with a number of
their visit did not coincide with the
local musicians. It raised £11,250 for the
concerts and several of them asked “ou est
hospices which had cared for Karin in her
le Sergeant Pepper?” so this year we have
final illness.
organised their visit to coincide with the
The dramatic public response to the
event and they will all attend.
event led the organisers to conclude that it
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In the last seven years the concerts
have raised over £130,000 which has been
given to local charities. All the profit now
being made from the concerts is being
used to sponsor Heather Philpotts, the first
Pepper Nurse who is attached to the Iain
Rennie Hospice at Home and who cares
for terminally ill children in their own
homes. It is hoped that future concerts
will raise money to sponsor more such
posts. If the enterprise continues to
expand as it has done perhaps they will
shortly be in a position to take over the
entire National Health Service! Who
would complain?
This year’s concerts will take place
from Wednesday 17th to Saturday 20th
July with the theme Sergeant Pepper is
Innocent. Tickets will be available from
the Bookstack, 248 High Street
Berkhamsted, from 11am on Sunday 23rd
June. If your organisation would like to
advertise in the programme contact Nick
or Dee Potts at the Bookstack (864559).
This is one of those rare opportunities
when you can have a thoroughly enjoyable
evening and contribute to a really
worthwhile charity at the same time.
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Review Leader (continued from page 3)
therefore contrary to the will of God and
sinful. How different the situation is today
with a militant ‘Gay Christian’ movement
within the Church, and such relationships
becoming more and more accepted in
society, with no sense of their being wrong
or unnatural.
There have also been some biologists
and theologians who have seen the spread
of BSE as also resulting from the rejection
of natural law, since it is wholly contrary
to nature to turn herbivorous, ie planteating animals, into carnivores, by feeding
them the offal of their own kind.
Another major change which has taken
place in those forty years is that few
people can look forward to having a
secure job for life. In the pastoral ministry
one meets many more who suffer strain
and stress as a result of insecurity, or the
pressure they are put under at work, or
through broken relationships.
The
situation of students has also changed
dramatically during this period, especially
those who come from broken homes, and
whose parents are unable or unwilling to
support them at college. With grants that
in some cases do not even cover the cost
of their accommodation, an increasing
number live in poverty and have to rely on
charities to meet their basic needs,
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especially if they live in an area where part
time jobs are hard to find. This must
surely affect their ability to study and gain
a good degree.
Over the years I have been privileged
to have some very interesting and
worthwhile jobs, which, while they have
not been easy, have been rewarding and
fulfilling. As I look back I am profoundly
grateful for the way God has guided us
and provided for our needs, not only in my
early years in the ministry, when we had to
live on a ‘shoe-string’, but also in some of
the difficult situations I have had to face,
which have included being held up at gunpoint twice! I have also been fortunate in
having some marvellous colleagues,
especially as Rector of Northchurch. In
particular I would like to express my
gratitude to four who are no longer with us
- Bob Bates and Jack Reynolds, two much
loved vergers, and Donald Lockhart and
Ken
Sunter,
two
outstanding
churchwardens.
My years in the ministry have convinced
me beyond any shadow of doubt of the
truth of Jesus’ words - I am the way, the
truth and the life. Only in him can we find
the key to life, both in this world and in
the world to come.
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The Berkhamsted
Walk 1996
The annual Berkhamsted
Walk is fast approaching. Ian
McCalla tells us more.
Firstly a reminder about the Berkhamsted
Walk on Sunday, 12th May starting at the
Court House in aid of the
Children’s Society. Please check
in between 10:30 and 11:30am.
The route this year is quite
new following most of the scenic
Ashridge boundary trail, with
checkpoints every three miles
and lifts back provided for those who
don’t intend to walk the whole way.
The whole route presents quite a
challenge.
Can
you
walk
from
Berkhamsted to Ivinghoe Beacon and
back? Most averagely fit people should be
able to. Those who do not feel like doing
the whole route can however amble
around the path as far as they feel like
going, thereby having a good day out.
Everyone should aim to get as far as the
Beacon and then go down to the National
Trust tearoom at the Bridgewater
monument. The outward route to the
Beacon is new, attractive and very
different from the traditional way.
Sponsor forms can be obtained from St
Peter’s and All Saints’ churches,
Berkhamsted Arts and Crafts, High Street
or from Ian McCalla (871765). Please
contact Ian McCalla or Kathy Lally
(863526) for further information.
Volunteers
have
started
clearing the footpath along the
top of Well Farm on the southern
edge of Berkhamsted Common.
It was not just blocked by one
enormous tree but by three! No
wonder no-one had got along it for the last
nine years. Sections have been cut out of
all three trees so that the most difficult part
of the route is now open. It remains to
clear the scrub and dead branches at each
end of the path. At the same time the route
will be waymarked with yellow arrows so
that you can find it. I hope that this work
will be done by the time you read this.
Meanwhile Reg Sturges and I are going
round putting up more signs (yellow for
footpaths, blue for bridleways). Our aim is
to have all the paths in the Northchurch
parish (which includes most of those in the
commons in the Berkhamsted area)
comprehensively waymarked by the
middle of next year.
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9A Lower Kings Road
in Town Hall Walk at rear of
Bailey’s Jewellers
01442 870787
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Knitting and Sewing Patterns
Friendly advice available Do come in for a browse
Jewellers Est 1872
9 Lower Kings Road
01442 863091
Unbeatable selection, service,
quality & value
Watches from the finest Watch
Houses, Beautiful Cultured Pearls,
Diamond and Gem Ring Specialists
Jewellery of every description and Much,
much more!!
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review letters
Sunnyside Rural Training
Andrew Barratt writes:
In two separate editions of the Review, you
have allowed Ian McCalla to inveigh
against the Town Council and myself
respectively. I do not know Mr. McCalla,
but would have thought that as a political
animal, of sorts, he would make a point of
getting his facts at least half correct before
committing his thoughts to public scrutiny.
The subject of his anger purports to be
the treatment meted out to Sunnyside
Rural Training (SRT) by the town council
in the matter of the allotment maintenance
contracts, although I strongly suspect Mr.
McCalla’s resentment of this council goes
back to May of last year.
The whole episode concerning SRT
was clearly more embarrassing to that
organisation than to the council and
following his first missive, I wrote
privately to Mr. McCalla to point out that
he would serve their cause badly by giving
further public airing to the matter. I
believe I was more than fair in the
comments that I expressed to him then.
Unfortunately Mr. McCalla chose not
only to ignore the content of this letter, but
to persist in his campaign using his
privileged position in your columns.
I still believe that Mr. McCalla is doing
SRT no service at all - they deserve that
the episode be dropped to allow the
building of good relations with our
council; however I cannot continue to
allow your correspondent to use your
columns to perpetuate his sad little
campaign without demanding the right of
reply. Your readers will then be able to
make up their own mind on the subject
and, hopefully, the whole thing will
quietly die - as I believe it should have
done long ago.
The Old Iron Works, High Street
Berkhamsted HP4 1BJ
Cllr. Barratt has asked us to reproduce his letter
to Ian McCalla; we are pleased to do so as the
Review is nothing if not even-handed!
Editor
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As a change for
front room where she
Sunnyside
your readers I am
carried
on
her
going to show how
business.
There
was
a
Story
one of the older
chimney sweep and,
parts of the Town
of course, a public
has changed from
house, The Rising
In the 1930s Sunnyside was a
a self-contained,
Sun run by Mr.
self-contained area of the town.
self-sufficient area
Wollard.
to a residential
Next
comes
R. Brinklow takes us for a stroll
area dependent on
Ellesmere Road. Of
around its streets.
the town centre for
note is Mr. Rance, a
its everyday needs.
timber merchant who
This is the area
with his son, Alf,
known as Sunnyside, and was well named
carried on business carting tree trunks with
in those early days.
two large vehicles and horses. These were
The time I am writing about is the
kept on a piece of spare ground at the rear
early 1930s and, as I was born in
of their house. There were three shops in
Sunnyside and spent the first eleven years
the road: Mr. Willoughby, known to all as
of my life there, I knew the people and
‘Tommy’ (general stores, sweets etc), Mrs.
what went on. I was always inquisitive and
Vincent (general stores, sweets and offliked to get involved in matters local.
licence), and Mrs. Waller (general stores
Consequently I got involved in helping
and sweets). Then there was a muffin man,
local tradespeople like the milkman, baker
Mr. Stretton, two washer women (Mrs.
and even two of the local coalmen, so
Beer and Miss Paine), Alf and Bill Gilbert
getting to know local residents better than
(builders), Mrs. Cook (women’s and
most of my age.
children’s clothes) and Mr. Geary
I will commence with George Street.
(hairdresser), who carried out his business
Here there were three coal merchants
in a well-equipped shed in his garden.
(Adams, Saunders and Olliffe) all doing
Mrs. King wandered around selling her
good trade as everybody needed coal then.
own grown vegetables from an old pram.
A rag-and-bone man, Mr. Howard and his
Even New Street, which only
sons, bought amongst other things rabbit
contained 16 houses, had Mr. Buckland
skins and jam jars. The latter items were
who, with pony and cart, travelled around
then sent off to a jam factory in Redbourne
selling fresh fish in winter and ice cream
by the lorry load. There were five shops.
in summer.
Mr. Rance sold fruit, vegetables and
Enclosing this area is Gravel Path with
sweets. He also had two ponies and carts
its four shops: Dobies (bakery and general
with which he and another covered other
stores), Watertons (dairy produce),
parts of the town. Mr. Neighbour sold
Thacker (butchers), and Hewlett (sub-post
hardware, paraffin and so on. Mrs.
office, newspapers and sweets). There was
Holland kept a general store, and Miss
also The Boat (public house) and Mrs.
East a sweetshop. Mrs. Newbury also had
Bignell (midwife). If this is not sufficient
a sweetshop and general stores. There was
then carry on into Ravens Lane, where
a blacksmith, Mr. Kempster, and a brush
there was Mr. Geary (shoes and repairs)
factory. Mrs. Adams, the coalman’s wife,
and, opposite him, Mr. Ellis (mens
was the local supplier of Sunday papers,
barber). Between these two shops and the
even supplying the town’s shops with their
canal there was shoe shop, then a coal
quotas. She was an amazing lady really, as
yard on one side and a wood yard on the
she was confined to lying on a sofa in the
other.
We then wander into Chapel
mason), Chenells (shoe repairer), Foster (baker
Street. Here we find Elkins & Son
and confectioner), Miss Channer (sweet shop) and
(removals),
Martins
(stone
of course The Brownlow Arms. All these small
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businesses and activities covered
all the needs from birth to death,
as just around the corner in Castle
Street was Matthews woodyard.
They had a coffin manufacturing
department and their horse-drawn
hearse was in a building next to
Chennels. From the stone mason
you could order your headstone.
Apart from the High Street and
Lower Kings Road, the only other
street with as many businesses
was Castle Street. Put that
together with those I have
mentioned and you have the
majority of shops and small
business in the town.
I hope readers will find this
write up of interest. If any local
organisation or group of people
would like a wander around this
area and be shown where these
people lived I am always available
to show them. I can be contacted
at 11, North Road, Berkhamsted.
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Victoria School
Inspection
February 1996
The governors of Victoria
School, Berkhamsted were
happy to deliver its recent OFSTED inspection
report to parents. The inspectors found much to
commend, describing it as a ‘good school which is
regarded highly in the community’. Victoria was
praised for being efficiently managed and giving
good value for money. Standards are generally
high and aspects of work good or very good. The
children know right from wrong and understand
the need for truthfulness and honesty.
Of course there is always room for
improvement, and the report identifies issues, in
particular information technology, which the
school is either already addressing or will be in the
near future.
Being a Church of England school, a separate
denominational inspection also took place. This
report commented very favourably on the
important part worship plays in the life of the
school. The Christian faith is taught as is
appropriate to the age and experience of the
children. There are good links with local Christian
churches, the local community and with the middle
schools.
The governors describe the reports as very
encouraging.
David Burbidge
Have you got
a point you’d
like to make?
Something to
get off your chest? Or
something you think our
readers would like to know?
Then write to us! Send your
letter together with any
illustrations, photographs or
other material to:
David Woodward
3 Murray Road
Berkhamsted
(Tel: 862723)
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NEWS FROM THE
P
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C
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The following individuals have been
elected as lay officers of the PCC for the
coming year:
Lay Vice-chairman
Honorary Secretary
Honorary Treasurer
Electoral Roll Officers
Stewardship Committee
Chairman
Youth Liaison
Churches Together
liaison
Review liaison
Christopher Green
Alan Conway
Michael Robinson
June Haile
Pat Hearne
Tony Roberts
Doug Billington
Victoria Macdonald
It’s less than two months to the 1996
Petertide Fair and plans for the big day
are accelerating. This year, there is a
completely new format to the Fair, but all
the old favourites will be there as well. For
a start, the Fair begins later at 11am, and
runs on to 4pm. We hope this will give
more people a chance on a busy Saturday
to come along and support the Fair.
The centrepiece will be a marquee and
central arena, where you’ll be able to
enjoy refreshments throughout the day
while watching the many events that will
be running. The popular bric-a-brac and
book stalls will this year be in the Court
House, as part of the Petertide Flea
Market.
Chris Smalley
The committee agreed that it was not at
present appropriate to make an
appointment for a parish youth worker.
The PCC will take steps to brief the
members of the parish more thoroughly on
how parish decisions are made. It is
important to ensure that, among other
objectives, our congregations are aware of
the financial implications of all decisions
taken. Action continues towards finding a
new rector. Plans are being formulated to
finance, jointly with the Parsonage Board
who own the rectory, some improvements
to that building to make it more attractive
to an incoming family.
Action continues to draw up a scheme
for repairs and refurbishment of St Peter’s
Lady Chapel and to find a location for a
new parish office.
The present arrangements will continue
whereby
any
members
of
the
congregations who wish to do so may
attend PCC meetings as observers (if you
wish to do so, please notify the secretary
in advance. Dates of meetings appear in
the Review diary).
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Most important are the causes we are
supporting. It’s been our practice over the
past few years to support causes within
and outside the parish on alternate years.
Last year we supported the local Swan
Youth Project, and this year we have
chosen to support two overseas projects.
The first of these regular readers of the
Review will already know, as Libby
Grundy wrote in the January issue about
the initiative linking local schools with a
school community in Tujereng in the
Gambia. Part of the proceeds from the Fair
will be going towards helping this
extremely worthwhile project.
The second cause is the continuing
need for funds to repair damage caused by
hurricane in the West Indies, which
decimated people’s homes and caused
widespread damage. This is a project very
close to our two churches and to the
diocese.
Can you offer your time and talents to
help with the Fair either before or on the
day? Tony Blair, this year’s chairman of
the organising committee would love to
hear from you on 864660.
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review notes&notices
W.E.A.
TUESDAY CLUB
For nearly fifty years the WEA has been
running
very
successful
classes
in
Berkhamsted.
The WEA is an independent, voluntary
national movement, run by its own members. It
is non-party in politics and non-sectarian in
religion.
Its purposes are the promotion and
provision of adult education throughout the
community in response to changing social
needs.
It believes that there is a key place in our
society for small groups of active people, who
pursue educational activities which take time,
require effort, lead to no material rewards and
raise standards of understanding and
appreciation.
The association runs courses in a wide
range of subjects, arranged in such a way as to
involve students in the conduct of the class
rather than expecting them to merely sit and
listen.
Field trips, outings and museum visits, in
connection with studies, are made by many
classes, and in breaking through the confines of
books and classroom walls they effectively
bring the studies more into the context of the
real world.
If you would like to extend your
educational horizons in an informal
atmosphere, in the company of welcoming,
friendly groups of adults - and incidentally
become part of a great national movement then WEA is for YOU.
The cost of our classes varies according to
subject and your circumstances. We have
concessions for OAPs and cases of special
need, and there is no charge for the registered
unemployed.
The next WEA course starting in
Berkhamsted is one on Flora and Fauna
covering twelve sessions. Meetings are held on
Wednesdays, with the first on 15th May at
Berkhamsted Library from 8:00 - 9:30pm. The
cost is £24 but with concessions (see above).
The tutor is Alan Outen. Please ring Ann
Gurney on 865445 for further details.
Our meeting is entitled Many Hands Make
Light Work as we tackle the cleaning of the
Court House windows, radiators and skirting
boards on 7th May. Pails and chamois leathers
at the ready at 7:30pm please, so that we can
use the light evening.
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A HOME-HELP OR COMPANION IN
EXCHANGE FOR THE SPOKEN WORD
A mother from one of the families in Prague
which recently hosted pupils from Tring
School when the school visited the Czech
Republic, would herself very much like to
improve her English. The lady, Mirka
Chaunova, is looking for an opportunity to stay
in an English household in July and August this
year. In exchange for the spoken word she
offers to clean, cook or garden or to be a
companion for an older person. If interested
please contact Mrs Judith Hill, Woodstock,
Shootersway Lane, Berkhamsted HP4 3NW
(864387). She will gladly supply further
details.
OXFAM’S CHILDREN’S WEAR EVENT
Kit out the kids for summer at Oxfam’s next
children’s wear event in the Civic Centre.
Clothes for all ages will be on sale on
Wednesday, 15th May from 9:30am to noon.
For further details please contact Audrey Hope
on 864225 (shop) or 864537 (home).
STEWARDSHIP
Did you commence a new covenant for your
stewardship offering last year? If so then you
should have received an R185 tax form from
our stewardship recorder, Harry Arnfield.
Please complete this form and return it to
Harry as soon as possible so that our claim for
the tax refund can be sent quickly to the Inland
Revenue.
BERKHAMSTED W.I.
“First catch your squirrel!”
Members at the March
meeting of the Berkhamsted
women’s
institute
were
startled to hear this adaption of
Mrs Beaton’s famous phrase
when they were having a
demonstration of wok cookery from Mrs Eileen
Follows.
She was describing how, when working on
the film production of Scarlett she was asked to
make enough ‘Brunswick Stew’ to feed fifteen
people and sufficient for ten ‘takes’. Happily
she used chicken instead.
This was just one of Mrs Follows’
anecdotes as she prepared four deliciously
spicy Chinese dished with most tempting
aromas. These were raffled at the end of the
evening and several members went home
proudly bearing foil containers for the next
day.
During the meeting arrangements were
announced for the WI’s 29th birthday party,
which was held on 23rd April, St George’s
Day. Everyone was asked to wear a red rose for
the occasion. There will also be an outing to
the gardens of Chienies Manor on 1st May.
Members are invited to a meeting on 30th
May, entitled The ABC of the WI, when all the
intricacies of our great national organisation
will be made clear.
At the next meeting on Wednesday, 15th
May at 7:30pm in Gable Hall, Prince Edward
Street, there will be a discussion and voting on
the resolutions for the intermediate general
meeting in Cardiff in June.
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The Robe
Across the barrack room floor
Dice rolled
Chattered on the stones
Settled, sixes up.
“Mine, I think”, he said, standing up
Showing his tunic, blood stained
And his muscles still taut from the hammering
As he stretched out to take the seamless coat.
“Odd chap, that...” he muttered,
“Couldn’t just go, like the rest...
All that shouting from the gallows...
Something weird there.
I didn’t like it,
A crucifixion unlike any other.
We shan’t see the like of him again
that’s for sure.”
With that, he turned and strode away.
The others watched him go,
The Robe lay in a heap upon the floor.
Liz Baxendale
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review diary
All services at normal times unless stated.
MAY
5
10:30am
12 9:15am
16 8:00pm
16 8:00pm
19 9:30am
19
31
6:00pm
JUNE
9
9:15am
21
29 11:00am
30 9:30am
Anglican/Methodist United Service
Family Service with Eucharist
Ascension Day Service
Ascension Day Service
Bishop Christopher presides for Family Sung
Eucharist & Holy Baptism
Choral Evensong
Standing Committee
All Saints’
All Saints’
St Peter’s
All Saint’s
St Peter’s
St Peter’s
Family Service with Eucharist
All Saints’
PCC Meeting
Petertide Fair on St Peter’s Lawns (to 4:00pm)
Patronal Festival Eucharist (transferred from 29th) St Peter’s
From the Registers...
Baptisms
St Peter’s
24 March
Emily Leonora, Thomas Michael and
Caroline Leandra Fiennes
Confirmation at St Albans Abbey
6 March
Timothy Ludford, James and Suzanne Imber
Funerals
6 March
12 March
15 March
18 March
19 March
20 March
27 March
28 March
1 April
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Mary Gibbs
Dorothy Grace (Dolly) Sutton
Donald Andrew (Jock) MacDonald
Tony otherwise Jack Henry Eden
Annie Dellow
Peter Howarth Roberts
William Wilfred Lang
John Charles Hockings
Doris Mary Richardson
Chilterns Crematorium
St Peter’s (Kingshill Cemetery)
St Peter’s (Chilterns Crematorium)
Chilterns Crematorium
Chilterns Crematorium
All Saints’ (Chilterns Crematorium)
Chilterns Crematorium
St Peter’s (Ashes interred at St Peter’s)
All Saints’ (Chilterns Crematorium)
review factfile
SundaySchool
Churches
PCC 1996/7
Sunday Schools at St Peter’s and All Saints’
St Peter’s
Sunday School starts at 9:30am and finishes at 10:30, in the Court House (next to St
Peter’s church in the High Street). We have two schools - Sunday School caters for
the 4 to 10 year olds, with Pathfinders continuing upwards from 10 years. Each
school is divided into several groups (three or four).
Everyone is extremely welcome. Mums and Dads - why not leave your children with
us on a Sunday morning? You’ll be warmly welcome at the 9:30 service in church, or
you can just return for your offspring at 10:30.
Contact Christine Tucker on 873272 for more details.
All Saints’
All Saints’ Sunday School is open for all children from the age of 3 to 9 years.
Children from 10 years are welcome at our Pathfinders group. We begin at 9:15am
each Sunday during term-time and finish at 10:15. Children join the main service in
church part way through.
For more information contact Vivienne Bull on 870921.
All Saints’ Creche
We operate a creche at the same times as Sunday School (above) for children under
3. There are toys to play with and at least two adults are there to supervise. Details
from Julie Wakely (875504)
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The Revd Canon Basil Jones, 17 Lochnell Road. Tel: 864485
The Revd Jim Lawrenson (Hon.Asst.Priest), Downside, 7 Torrington Road. Tel: 865999
The Revd Preb Stephen Wells (Hon.Asst.Priest), 57 Meadow Road. Tel: 870981
Miss Marjorie Bowden (Reader), 18 Greenway. Tel: 871283
Mrs Joan Cook (Reader), The Gardeners Arms, Castle Street. Tel: 866278
John Malcolm (Reader), Landswood, Shootersway. Tel: 874993
Tom Montague (Reader), 27 Hill View. Tel: 875320
Mrs Jenny Wells (Reader), 57 Meadow Road. Tel: 870981
Parish Secretary: Mrs Jean Green, 17 Cowper Road. Tel: 863241
Churchwardens: Christopher Green, 17 Cowper Road. Tel: 863241;
John Banks, Ladybrand, Cross Oak Road. Tel: 871195
Parochial Church
Secretary: Alan Conway, 7 Kilfillan Gardens. Tel: 865798
Council:
Treasurer: Michael Robinson, 36 Trevelyan Way. Tel: 863559
Director of Music: Vaughan Meakins. :01494 837412; Assistant: Mrs Jean Wild. 866859
Organist:
Mrs Jean Cooper. Tel: 874088
Sundays
Weekdays
8.00am
Holy Communion
Holy Communion
9.30am
Family Sung Eucharist with
Wednesday
6.45am
Creche & Sunday Schools (in
Thursday
11.00am
the Court House) followed by
Friday
9.15am
coffee in the Court House.
Holy Days - see weekly Notices
11.15am Matins & Sermon (lst Sunday only) 1st Monday in the month at 7.30pm, Holy
6.00pm
Evensong & Sermon
Communion & Service for Healing
(except lst Sunday see All Saints’)
Matins & Evensong said daily
Confessions
After Saturday Evensong (5.00pm) or at other times by appointment.
Weddings, Banns of Marriage, Baptisms, Funerals
Please contact Revd Canon Basil Jones
Bellringers (St Peter’s): Miss Priscilla Watt, 9 Kings Road. Tel: 863804
Organist and choir: Mrs Valerie McCalla. Tel: 871765
Sundays
8.00am
Holy Communion (lst Sunday - Methodist rite)
9.15am
Family Sung Eucharist & Sunday Schools, then coffee in the Hall
11.00am
(Methodist Morning Service)
6.30pm
Evening Service (1st Sunday - Anglican rite, other Sundays Methodist rite)
Weekdays
Holy Communion: Tuesday 9.30am
Holy Days - see weekly Notices
(All Saints’ is shared with the Berkhamsted Methodist Church)
Published by Berkhamsted St Peter Parochial Church Council
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