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TO LIVE AND GROW AS THE BODY OF CHRIST
▪ Free ▪ June 2021 ▪
A drawing on the theme of ‘Pentecost’ by Dylan Tickle, Taxal and Fernilee School
Reverend Frances reflects on opening the church - Page 3
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call Robert Wall of Whaley Bridge on
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Opening the Church Doors
Holy Trinity Church on Buxton Rd has regularly been
used by community groups and we are delighted that this
use is steadily re-starting as lockdown eases. From the
second week in May St. James Taxal will also be open
for private prayer on Tuesdays every week from 10 am -
12 noon. We do invite you to come in, sit for a while and
enjoy the quiet. As a church community we are in the
business of enabling people to encounter God in Jesus
Christ. Simply enabling people to come into church and
pray quietly is one way in which this can happen.
Was there a time, I wonder, when you were on holiday
somewhere, tried the door of a church and found that it was open? That you went
in, sat down and experienced a sense of God’s presence, God’s holiness in the
peace and beauty of a well-loved and tended ancient church building?
All the evidence shows that while church attendance has been declining steadily, a
majority of people continue to have some kind of spirituality, and a belief in God
however ill-defined. Especially since the pandemic began, there is evidence that
many people have tried prayer for the first time. While such people may not
choose to attend a church service, they may well appreciate the opportunity to
reflect quietly in an empty church. People of no faith, or of another faith will also
appreciate the peace and beauty that an ancient church such as St. James offers.
The church’s calling is to share Christ in word and sacrament. There is a
“sacrament of place” in buildings such as St. James. The building itself is able to
communicate the divine. What is more, St. James is the oldest building in Whaley
Bridge and has immense heritage value. As custodians of this place we owe it to
our community to enable people to be familiar with this building, to own it as their
heritage. After all, we are a Church of England parish - and this means that the
church building is not merely for the use of the congregation, but is primarily there
for the geographical parish of Whaley Bridge - and everyone who lives in it.
Opening the church signals that the church in this place is living and active, as
indeed it is.
Unusually for many churches as remote as St James, we have considerable
footfall – people visiting the churchyard and walkers, some local, others from
further afield - so we should capitalise upon this. Opening St. James for a couple
of hours during the week is a small step towards extending its enjoyment by, and
accessibility to the wider community. Come and explore the peace and beauty of
St. James one Tuesday morning - you never know, you may find that in the quiet
there is a still, small voice speaking to you.
Revd Frances Eccleston
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The Parish of Whaley Bridge
St James Taxal ● Holy Trinity Fernilee ● Kettleshulme
www.whaleybridgecofeparish.org
Priest in Charge Revd Frances Eccleston 01663 732724
(mobile) 07554 240762
46 Buxton Road, Whaley Bridge
revfrances.whaley@gmail.com
Readers Beryl Axcell 732612
Hilltop, Macclesfield Road
Mick Connell 734153
1 Shallcross Mill Road
michael@jconnell.plus.com
Pastoral Worker Sue Mellor 732005
2 Taxal View, Fernilee
themellors32@gmail.com
Churchwardens John Swift 07775 691403
Madscar Farm, Taxal
Stella Whitehurst 732132
stella.whitehurst@btinternet.com
Items for magazine to the editor Alison Rowland 07905 987360
alimg99@aol.com
Bell Ringing Victoria Shelmerdine
vshel250@gmail.com 719430
Praying for the Streets of Whaley Bridge
The names of the streets to be prayed for in any particular week will appear on the
church notice sheet and these streets will be remembered in our prayers.
6 June: Bridgemont, Buxton Road
13 June: Canal Street, Carr Brook Close, Chapel Road, Chapel Street
20 June: Church Bank, Clough Field Close, Cotton Close, Craig Drive
27 June: Cromford Mews, Eccles Close, Elnor Avenue
4 July: Elnor Lane, Forge Road, George Street
11 July: Goyt Place, Goyt Road, Hall Farm Close, Hill Drive
18 July: Hill Top Rise, Hill View, Hockerley Avenue, Hockerley Close
25 July: Hockerley Lane, Hockerley New Road, Jodrell Meadow
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The Parish of Whaley Bridge
St James Taxal - Holy Trinity Fernilee - Kettleshulme
Services in June 2021
In June the majority of our services will be Sunday 13th June:
held “in person”, although some services 10.30am: Holy Communion at Holy Trinity
will still take place “online” on Zoom. (in person)
The Zoom** sign in details are as follows: Sunday 20th June:
10.30am: Morning Worship on Zoom **
Meeting ID 364 083 0788
Sunday 27th June:
Password 123456. 10.30am: Holy Communion at St James
For services in person, mask-wearing and Taxal (in person)
social distancing continue to apply. Please note service arrangements may be
subject to change. Check our website,
Please do not attend church in person if you www.whaleybridgecofeparish.org for up to
are feeling at all unwell. date details.
Sunday 6th June: Tuesdays in June:
10.30am: Morning Worship on Zoom ** 9.30am: A short service of morning prayer
will be held at Holy Trinity Church.
4.00pm: Evensong at St James Taxal (in St James Taxal will be open for private
person) prayer from 10.00am - 12 noon.
Midweek activities
at Holy Trinity
Midweek activities at
Holy Trinity Church
have now resumed.
All activities have been
risk assessed and
conform to the current
covid guidelines.
Please see page 26 for
the current list of
activities taking place
The Collation and Induction of the Reverend Frances
and contact details of
Eccleston as Vicar of Whaley Bridge by the Bishop of
the organisers.
Chester on 29th April 2021 at St James Taxal.
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An update on our church buildings during lockdown
The weather is at last warming up and the John Swift spent months organising and
lovely Spring flowers lift our spirits. Slowly overseeing the replacement of the old boiler
but surely we are moving along the at St James’ Church which broke down
government ‘roadmap’ for reduction of the totally in January 2020. No sooner was that
constraints of Lockdown. Some of us are done than we discovered a serious leak in
even daring to dream that life may return to the central heating pipes below the floor at
normal by the end of June though it may be Holy Trinity Church. John and heating
a ‘new normal’. Pre-lockdown is a distant engineer Glenn Scragg made many trips
memory. down through the trapdoor in the floor of the
At church we are planning for and looking meeting room to remove the damaged
forward to returning to regular church lengths of pipe and replace them with new
services one day. Do you remember how it ones.
used to be? Other things have been happening too. You
While we have been meeting for Sunday may remember that, shortly before Rev
worship on Zoom, other activities have been Margaret retired we learned that the organ at
taking place, also on Zoom. The Parochial Holy Trinity Church was too old and worn
Church Council (PCC) has continued to out to be repaired yet again. So the PCC
meet every other month to discuss church made the sad decision to dispense with the
business and various sub-groups have also organ, which had served Holy Trinity well
met regularly all year. for more than a hundred years. We had to
While all this was going on, Church Warden, obtain a Faculty (that is permission) from the
Diocese of Chester to do this and the old
organ was removed in March this year.
We purchased a modern, portable, electronic
organ from Church Organ World in
Manchester and Gerald Fletcher is very
pleased with its performance.
The removal of the old organ from the
Organ Chamber has left a large useful space.
Holy Trinity is a busy church where lots of
different activities take place. Storing goods
and equipment for all these groups has been
an increasing problem in recent years. So,
the decision has been made to use the former
Organ Chamber as a designated storage area.
Metal racking and storage boxes have been
ordered and we hope soon to have a well
organised and accessible storage area with
plenty of space for all our needs.
Another decision taken by the PCC has been
to reduce the number of chairs at Holy
Trinity Church.
First the very heavy metal chairs from the
upper room were sold and the money,
together with some donations, was used to
St James’ Church, Taxal. purchase some collapsible plastic chairs.
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We really do look forward to
meeting together again for worship
and to sing and to share a cup of
tea or coffee and a biscuit too.
These are sturdy but light and, when
collapsed, stack into a specially designed
trolley on wheels which holds all 40 chairs.
These chairs also have the advantage of
being easy to clean and disinfect which has
been a complete necessity during the Covid
pandemic. Holy Trinity Church, Whaley Bridge.
The PCC further agreed to the sale of half
of the red upholstered chairs used in church
for services. These are good attractive You may have noticed that once or twice
chairs but with 120 of them, we simply had recently the gate to Holy Trinity car park
too many. has been closed and locked. We have been
reluctant to do this but, as you may know, a
On the many occasions when we needed to
number of Buxton Road residents rent car
clear the main body of the church for
parking spaces at Holy Trinity. This helps
Messy Church, Swap Shop, Monday Ballet,
the residents and the income from the
the Christmas Tree Festival and various
lettings helps our finances.
Fairs we have had to move the heavy chairs
into the vestry and wherever else we could Unfortunately, from time to time, we have
store them. Often the church has been lined been troubled by unauthorised parking
with chairs stacked two and even three which is not fair to the people who pay us
high. regularly. We have tried leaving notes on
Even after the sale of 60 chairs, we still windscreens but to no avail. So, it has been
have 60 red chairs left, which is plenty for decided to close and lock the gate
our regular congregation, so with the grey occasionally. All the regular car park users
chairs we have a total of 100. If we ever have been informed about this and have
really find that we need more, we will buy been given the code to allow them to
more grey plastic ones which are so unlock the gate. We are very sorry for this
versatile and easy to store. inconvenience and hope that we will not
need to do it for long.
You will also notice that the photocopier
We will be trying a mixture of Zoom and
and computer have gone from the office.
‘In Person’ services during the next few
They have been relocated to a new office in
months so everyone can get used to
the Vicarage because we have upgraded to
returning to church when they are ready to
a more modern photocopier which can not
do so. We really do look forward to
only print the Parish Magazine but fold and
meeting together again for worship and to
staple it too, which will save many hours of
sing and to share a cup of tea or coffee and
work for Sue and her team. The new
a biscuit too. How about a bring and share
system required a Wi-Fi connection which
is not available at the church because we lunch to celebrate?
don’t have a phone line there. In the meantime, take care, stay safe and
enjoy the warmer weather.
So, we are almost there with an admin
system fit for the 21st century. Stella Whitehurst
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Working our way towards a Greener Church
As you probably know, the more importantly perhaps than you would usually pay
UK will host the UN we need to be encouraging in the supermarket!
Climate Change Conference every one of us in our parish
It sounds complicated, but
COP26 in November 2021 to make lifestyle changes the staff are friendly and
to bring together world ourselves – remembering there to help, and once you
leaders to commit to urgent that small changes can also have done it a few times,
global climate action. The add up to a powerful impact. you get the hang of it. In
challenge is to “Race to I would like to share my addition to dried goods and
Zero” – to achieve zero experience of reducing cereals I am now buying
carbo emissions by 2050 by plastic waste by using a cooking oil, washing up
the very latest – preferably refill shop – something I had liquid, shampoo, and liquid
sooner – in order to defeat not done until coming to live soap this way. It is pleasing
the climate crisis. This will here in Whaley Bridge last to be able to reduce plastic
mean a huge step change for year! waste this way while
society at every level. supporting a local business.
Businesses, cities, regions
and investors are being Our two nearest refill shops
challenged to engage with are Miller Refillers, located
this, and it is important that in the old Torrs pub in New
we in the churches take a Mills, and Ground Zero in
positive lead: after all, we Buxton, who also do
recognise the natural world deliveries.
not as a commodity to be It works like this: if you It takes longer than
exploited, but as God’s already have containers for supermarket shopping, sure
precious gift to us. your rice, sugar, pasta, etc – but I find it a more
bring them with you. If not, mindful experience. There
In Whaley Bridge Parish we there are jars to buy, or used is time to properly value and
are pleased to be able to appreciate each item. Thank
containers to take for free in
work with Acclimatise the shop. You place the God as you shop. And
Whaley by offering a home reduce plastic waste, thereby
container on the scales and
for the Terracycle Scheme taking care of God’s earth.
weigh it, and the scales print
(see pages 14 & 15). We Why not try it!
a label out with a bar code
have also recently met with on. You then go and fill Revd Frances Eccleston
the Biodiversity Group of your container with pasta
Acclimatise Whaley to look shapes from the dispenser.
We invite readers of
at how we can maximise the You scan the barcode, find
the magazine to send
benefits to nature of our “pasta shapes” on the menu in their suggestions of
lovely churchyard at St. green lifestyle changes
on the screen, weigh the
James Taxal and this is container, now full, and a they have made,
something we will be taking however small, as a
new label is printed out with
forward over the coming way of encouraging
the cost of the pasta shapes –
months and years. others. Please send
the weight of the container
your suggestions via
There is a challenge to us in has been automatically email to our magazine
church of reducing the deducted. You go to the editor, Alison:
carbon footprint of our counter and pay – and notice alimg99@aol.com
church buildings. Even that the cost is rather less
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The Ancient Church
Sometimes I sit within my pew
And gaze upon an ancient view
Of stones, which, set by mason’s line
Have stood through centuries of time;
Of glass, whose colours, vivid, bright
Have told their wondrous tales of light
And filtered sunshine’s timeless rays
To countless eyes through countless days.
The pulpit where, through long past years
God’s servants preached to faithful ears;
The lectern and its Bible read
Aloud to both the quick and dead;
The feet, which down that aisle have trod
To worship everlasting God;
The angels, as they downward gaze
Have heard ten thousand songs of praise!
Songs of joy, and infant cries
As they gathered to baptize,
Songs of love and celebrations
In marriages and confirmations,
Songs of sadness and of loss
Sung before the Saviour’s cross.
So many lives have come, then flown
Within this ancient house of stone.
So, as I sit and wonder how
Such history should guide me now?
Such faithful worship through the years
May move me to shed humble tears.
These ghosts bring me joy, not fear
I know I’m just a tenant here Fruitful activity
And in one way they are my guide –
They keep me free from pompous pride! On page 17 you will find another
By Nigel Beeton opportunity to do some colouring for
mindfulness. We hope you enjoy it.
With Father’s Day in mind...
Directly after God in heaven comes Papa — Mozart as a boy
What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be
heard by posterity — Richter
A father is a banker provided by nature – French proverb
The child had every toy his father wanted — Robert C. Whitten
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Ecclesiastical Insurance - Trust 130 Campaign
For every new home insurance policy its customers through this promotion,
taken out in 2021 with Ecclesiatical and to allow more churches to
Insurance, a donation of £130 will be benefit from these donations the
made to a church or cathedral of the campaign has been extended to run
policyholder’s choice through throughout 2021.
Ecclesiastical’s Trust 130 promotion. To take advantage of this offer
Since 2017, Ecclesiastical has donated please call Ecclesiastical’s team for
over £430,000 to churches chosen by further information on 0800 7830
130 and quote Trust 130. Further
details can also be found
at www.ecclesiastical.com/
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Such donations have already made
a massive difference to churches
and cathedrals across the country,
and while £130 might not sound like
a vast sum, these contributions
make a big difference in supporting
the ongoing work of the churches of
Holy Trinity and St James, Taxal
within the Parish.
The Parish Rooms
Holy Trinity Church
Buxton Road
www.whaleybridgecofeparish.org
• Special occasion? - why not consider booking the Parish Rooms.
• Also available for meetings, coffee mornings, parties, funeral teas.
• Full kitchen facilities available - reasonable charges.
• Outside caterers can be used for your special event.
• Safe off-road parking.
• Book in good time to avoid disappointment.
All enquiries to Mark Ford on 01663 719144
1011
RHS Garden Bridgewater, in Worsley, near Manchester, is the Royal Horticultural
Society's fifth public display garden. Pictured top left is the very impressive plant
centre, which is well worth a visit. The garden officially opened on 18 May 2021.
Visit https://www.rhs.org.uk/gardens/bridgewater for details.
Discover the health benefits of gardening
Gardening really is good for you! the more frequently you garden, the
According to a recent study conducted greater the health benefits.
by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS)
and two universities, people who garden “In fact, gardening every day has the
every day have well-being scores 6.6 same positive impact on your well-being
per cent higher, and stress levels 4.2 as undertaking regular, vigorous
per cent lower than those who do not exercise like cycling or running.
garden at all.
“Gardening is like effortless exercise: it
Dr Lauriane Chalmin-Pui, RHS well- doesn’t feel as strenuous as going to the
being fellow and lead author says, “The gym, but we can expend similar
evidence overwhelmingly suggests that amounts of energy.”
1908 newspapers Covid: Help for India
When the organ chamber at Holy trinity was being
DEC charities are responding
cleared out, various newspapers came to light,
to the crisis in India by
including the Church Times, Daily Telegraph, providing medical supplies,
Morning Leader, and Evening News, writes John treatment facilities and
Swift. support to overwhelmed
There are many unusual articles worth a look health services. To donate
about the year 1908. Do ask to borrow them. visit https://www.dec.org.uk/
12Book Review
Introducing the story
of Creation to children
Here’s a good way to introduce young
children (aged three to six) to the
Genesis creation account.
Written with rhythm and rhyme, the
book covers the awe-inspiring journey
through the days of Creation, and it is
full of fun and beautiful imagery, from
the vastness of the solar system to the
immediacy of small animals.
The book would be good for reading
aloud to preschool-aged children, and
for use with children starting to learn to
read.
It will help parents looking for a fun,
God’s Brilliantly Big Creation Story fresh way to introduce children to the
By Dai Woolridge, Bible Society, £6.99 Christian faith.
13Terracycle Relaunch and
an easy new format
Please refer to the leaflet in this article to
find out which waste streams are accepted.
To make the process smooth, please make
every effort to pre-sort your waste into each
bullet point category outlined in the leaflet.
There was an excellent
turnout for the relaunch
of the Terracycle
recycling scheme,
which took place from
10am-noon on Saturday
8th May at Holy Trinity
Church.
Acclimatise Whaley has
streamlined the process,
making it very simple for
people to come along
twice a month to recycle
many items that are not
accepted in our general
recycling bins.
Rather than having
multiple drop-off locations
around the town, there will
now be a centralised
sorting session at Holy
Trinity Church every
second and fourth
Saturday of the month
between 10am and 12
noon.
Everyone is welcome to
bring their Terracycle
waste along to the
sessions and sort them
into the correct waste
streams, ready to be sent
Jamie and the team sorting some of the many items off to Terracycle for
brought to the Terracycle relaunch on 8 May. recycling.
14Please refer to the leaflet everyone to apply the
in this article to find out hand sanitiser provided
which waste streams are on entry.
accepted.
We kindly ask that you
To make the process only bring your
smooth, please make Terracycle waste at the
every effort to pre-sort time specified above and
your waste into each do not dump rubbish
bullet point category outside the church.
outlined in the leaflet.
Masks and social
distancing are mandatory Jamie Richardson
in the church building at – On behalf of
all times and we ask Acclimatise Whaley
15The Easter Egg Trail 2021
Starting at Toddbrook activity during the school
Nursery in Horwich End, holiday.
laminated decorated
Easter Eggs were Each of the Eggs had a
distributed around the single word which put
town finishing in the together read a message.
Canal Basin. For any that were unable
to find all the Easter
For this to be possible, Eggs, the message was:
139 nursery and primary
school age children took Christians celebrate
part in a competition. Easter because Jesus
died on the Cross and ABOVE: Jae-Jae (Taxal
Teams from across the and Fernilee Primary
rose to new life with
four churches in Whaley School) with his
God on the third day. grandfather and his
Bridge then had the very God’s love brings new
difficult task of judging design, along with his
life. And that is Good thank you card and
these down to 10 designs News!
in each of three age congratulations
book mark.
groups. I hope that the churches
And so it was that 30 of Whaley Bridge, the
“It has been lovely to see
designs provided the local Town Council, and all
so many joining in.”
children and their families the businesses who
agreed to participate will (Good News Church)
with a traditional Easter
be heartened by the “The boys loved finding
comments received: them and were really
excited when they found
“The children really one their friends had
enjoyed the Easter Egg done. It was great.”
Trail this evening.” (Toddbrook Nursery
(Whaley Bridge Parish parent)
Church/Taxal and
Fernilee Primary School “I saw a few families
family) outside the Uniting
Church today taking part
“Our boys loved the in the Easter Egg Trail.
Easter Egg Trail. They What a lovely moment to
found all the eggs in two see… I witnessed first
and a half hours. Thank hand the joy this
you so much to everyone endeavour brought to a
Oli (Taxal and Fernilee
who helped to organise Whaley Bridge Family.”
Primary School) is it. It was a lovely Easter (Uniting Church)
pictured outside Baileys Sunday activity.”
Restaurant with his (Taxal and Fernilee Jeanette Nicholls
Easter Egg. Primary School family) Parish of Whaley Bridge
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Crossword Clues
Across
1 Military tactic used by
Joshua to attack and
destroy the city of Ai
(Joshua 8:2) (6)
4 Place of learning (6)
8 ‘When Moses’ hands
grew — , they took a
stone and put it under
him and he sat on
it’ (Exodus 17:12) (5)
9 Unpleasant auguries
of the end of the age, as
forecast by Jesus
(Matthew 24:7) (7)
10 Stronghold to which
girls in King Xerxes’
harem (including Esther)
were taken (Esther 2:8)
(7)
Passover (Exodus 12:22) 13 Large flightless bird
11 Where Saul went to
(6) (Job 39:13) (7)
consult a medium before
fighting the Philistines (1 14 They were worth
Down several hundred pounds
Samuel 28:7) (5)
1 Fasten (Exodus 28:37) each (Matthew 25:15) (7)
12 Propitiation (Hebrews
2:17) (9) (6) 15 ‘A — went out to sow
17 Turn away (Jeremiah 2 Art bite (anag.) (7) his seed’ (Matthew 13:3)
3 ‘The people of the city (6)
11:15) (5)
were divided; some — 16 How Jesus described
19 So clear (anag.) (7)
with the Jews, others Jairus’s daughter when
21 ‘I have just got — , so he went into the room
with the apostles’ (Acts
I can’t come’: one excuse where she lay (Mark
to be absent from the 14:4) (5)
5 Contend (Jeremiah 5:39) (6)
great banquet (Luke
12:5) (7) 18 The part of the day
14:20) (7)
6 Possessed (Job 1:3) when the women went to
22 Long weapon with a the tomb on the first
pointed head used by (5)
Easter morning (John
horsemen (Job 39:23) (5) 7 Sheen (Lamentations 20:1) (5)
23 Musical beat (6) 4:1) (6)
20 Narrow passageway
24 What the Israelites 9 ‘You love evil rather between buildings (Luke
were told to use to daub than good, — rather than 14:21) (5)
blood on their door- speaking the
frames at the first truth’ (Psalm 52:3) (9) Answers on page 20
18COFFEE MORNINGS at the MECHANICS
The Mechanics Institute has now For any Mechanics Institute queries,
reopened and coffee mornings are please email
slowly resuming, outside initially. mechanicsbookings@whaleybridge.com
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Deadline for articles (July/Aug issue) Friday 4 June 2021
19ANSWERS TO CROSSWORD
ACROSS: 1, Ambush. 4, School. 8, Tired. 9, Famines. 10, Citadel. 11, Endor.
12, Atonement. 17, Avert. 19, Oracles. 21, Married. 22, Lance. 23, Rhythm. 24,
Hyssop.
DOWN: 1, Attach. 2, Biretta. 3, Sided. 5, Compete. 6, Owned. 7, Lustre. 9,
Falsehood. 13, Ostrich. 14, Talents. 15, Farmer. 16, Asleep. 18, Early. 20, Alley.
Smile lines…Smile lines…Smile lines…Smile lines
Miscellaneous observations on life: Few things are more satisfying than
I want to be 14 again and ruin my life seeing your children have teenagers
of their own.
differently. I have new ideas.
Learn from others’ mistakes. You
Scratch a dog – and you’ll find a
won’t live long enough to make them
permanent job.
all yourself.
Every seven minutes of every day,
Money isn’t everything, but it does
someone in an aerobics class pulls a
keep you in touch with your children.
muscle.
20Remembering HRH The Duke of Edinburgh
This month (10th June) the Duke of to our Armed Forces, and to engineering,
Edinburgh would have turned 100. This technology and design... In Edmund Burke’s
article is from the Archbishop of words, he had an instinctive sense that the
Canterbury’s recent tribute to him in the social contract was found in the traditions
House of Lords. we inherit from the past, in our obligations
“We have thanked God for Prince Philip’s to the present and in our responsibility to
life of extraordinary service. There are some those yet to be born.
rare people who bring energy into a room - “His genuine and deep sense of humility and
the Duke of Edinburgh was very much one his service came from the same place, which
of those people. His presence lifted a was his faith… He had a sincere Christian
gathering. He might have challenged and faith absolutely untainted by false piety…
interrogated, but whatever he said, he never He understood deeply how important faith is
bored anyone. for the vast majority of the world’s
“The Duke of Edinburgh had a profound population. He engaged the rich diversity of
moral imagination, extraordinary foresight faiths within the UK and the
and even vision. He saw the world not just Commonwealth. He was a pioneer in
as it is but as it could and should be, as recognising the crucial role that faith leaders
worked out in his commitment to young play in advocating for creation care. He was
people, especially through the Duke of literally half a century ahead of his time in
Edinburgh’s Award, to the Commonwealth, this area.”
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GENERAL PLUMBING REPAIRS
COMPLETE BATHROOM, EN-SUITE &
KITCHEN INSTALLATION SERVICE
BATHROOM & KITCHEN
REFURBISHMENTS
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REPLACEMENT SINKS & TAPS
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CALL GRAEME HALL - 07936387984
EVENINGS 01663 719596
22Preserve Your Memories Steve Waterhouse
Decorator
INTERIOR DECORATION
ALSO HAND PAINTED FURNITURE
KITCHEN UNITS
WARDROBES AND VANITY UNITS
Contact: Brian on 07786 964886
Established 1984
Email: thebristols@hotmail.co.uk Tel: 01663 734345
THE FRYERY
Traditional Fish & Chips
Open: Mon-Sat Lunch 12-2pm Voted Best Fish & Chip Shop
Mon-Tue-Wed Tea 5-8pm in the High Peak
Thur-Fri Tea 5-9pm By Rob Parker
Sat Tea 5-8pm “Pubs R down to us” publications
Tel: 01663 732902 Canal Street, Whaley Bridge
2324
Head Teacher: Mrs Alicia Bellshaw 25
REGULAR CHURCH ACTIVITIES
Midweek Activities at Holy Trinity Church from May 2021 onwards:
All activities have been risk assessed and conform to the current covid
guidelines.
Monday
3 – 9pm: Jayne Roy School of Dance. Contact Jayne: jayneroy1@gmail.com
Tuesday
9.30am: Service of Morning Prayer
Thursday
10am – noon: Little Bird Music for babies and toddlers. Contact Helen:
hvparkes@yahoo.co.uk
Saturday (Second and fourth)
10am - noon: Terracycle recycling. Contact: acclimatisewhaley@gmail.com
Saturday (Third)
10 am – noon: Baby & Children’s Clothes and Toy Swap. Contact Sue Mellor
01663 732005
Please note - the following groups remain suspended until further notice:
EVERY WEEK
Sunday Explorers - held during 10.30 service
Bible stories and fun for children. Contact Sue Mellor 01663 732005
Home Groups - Fellowship with Bible Study
Wednesday 7.30-9.00pm at Eastfield, 15, Whaley Lane
Contact Marion Lacey 01663 733717 or Sue Mellor 01663 732005
Bell Ringing Practice from 8.00pm at St James Taxal. All ages, but must be
4ft 8in tall. Secretary Victoria Shelmerdine vshel250@gmail.com
01663 719430 Practice: Thursday from 7.30pm-8.30pm
MONTHLY
CATS Pre School Praise First Wednesday of month. For pre- school age
children and their carers 9.15am at Holy Trinity Contact Beryl Axcell 01663
732612
Mothers’ Union Meetings third Thursday in month. Holy Trinity 1.30pm
Contact Eveline Hughes – 01663 733597
Churches Together Lunch Club Second and fourth Thursday each month 12
o’clock at the Uniting Church. Contact Stella Whitehurst 01663 732132 or
Marion Lacey 01663 733717. Tickets £4.00.
Messy Church First Sunday each month. Watch out for future dates. Contact
Marion Lacey 01663 733717
2627
UNIT 5, BOWDEN HEY ROAD, CHAPEL-EN-LE-FRITH, HIGH PEAK SK23 0JQ
NEAR FERODO ROUNDABOUT
• TYRES, EXHAUSTS, REPAIRS, DIAGNOSTICS & SERVICING
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TEL: 01298 813424
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