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The Botolph Bell
The Magazine for the Parish of Heene
September 2016
Look at all the regular events we hold in addition to our
Sunday morning services:
Tuesday 10.00am—11.00am Splat Messy Play
(Mother & Toddler group)
Wednesday 10.00am —11.30am U3A Inspired Instrumentalists
7.00pm — 8.00pm Tai Chi
8.00pm — 9.00pm Kick Boxing
7.30pm — 9.00pm Bell Ringers’ practice
Friday 10.15am Prayer group
10.30am —12noon Coffee morning
7.30pm — 9.15pm Choir Practice
Sunday 12.30 for 12.45pm Monthly — usually on 3rd Sunday of the month — parish community lunch at The Beechwood Hall Hotel, Wykeham Road.
All events are weekly unless otherwise stated and contact details are shown at the back of this magazine.
St. Botolph’s Church, Lansdowne Road, Worthing BN11 4LY
[entrance on Manor Road for most mid-week events]
Services
Sunday, 4th September 10.00am Sung Eucharist
Friday, 9th September 10.15am Prayer Group
Sunday, 11th September 10.00am Sung Eucharist
Friday, 16th September 10.15am Prayer Group
Sunday, 18th September 10.00am Sung Eucharist
Friday, 23rd September 10.15am Prayer Group
Sunday, 25th September 10.00am Sung Eucharist
Friday, 30th September 10.15am Prayer Group
Sunday, 2nd October 10.00am Sung Eucharist
Friday 7th October 10.15am Prayer Group
What’s on at St. Botolph’s?
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Thought for the Month
September 2016 41st Edition
Archdeacon Douglas writes:
As I write this article for the “Botolph Bell” Great Britain is excelling in the Olympic Games. I’ve just heard that Andy Murray has won Gold in the Men’s Tennis Singles. These are great achievements by young people of whom the nation is rightly proud. Many Olympian athletes are quite ordinary folk with ordinary day jobs: one British Bronze winner in the shooting tournament, a farmer, returned to his family farm from Rio immediately after the award ceremony because he was needed on the farm to gather in the harvest.
The discipline, training and sacrifice of Olympic athletes is commendable. They aspire to perfection and each Olympics seems to reveal even more amazing physical standards and achievements.
St Paul was prone to use sporting metaphors inside his Epistles, for example: 1 Corinthians 9:24-27; Galatians 5:7; 2 Timothy 4:7; Thessalonians 2:19.
Paul would have known of the Olympic Games which took place every 4 years in the centre of Greece. Paul in this context often uses the Greek term ‘Stephanos’ which has various meanings, one of which is the prize, the medal, won by the athlete in the Games.
If the Church (that is people just like us) are serious about carrying out Christ’s mission in the world, we must be as serious as athletes in our training. Prayer, study of Holy Scripture, the Sacraments particularly the Eucharist, are those very things which allow us to reflect, to enter if you will into the world of spiritual exercises. Our call is to holiness - about that the New Testament is quite clear. Holiness is defined not as piety but Christ-likeness and we are to aspire to Christ-likeness and we are to remain faithful in the race towards holiness. We are to be thankful to God for all he has given us. We are to show in our lives and also in the community of faith (Greek ‘Koinonia’), those signs of holiness: love, mercy, grace, generosity and hospitality. We are as Christians in training and we ought to aim for gold!
By the time this magazine is published the Olympic Games will be over. The games I suggest reveals something of the beauty of God as seen in humanity revealing the best in people. After all Paul did say Christ is “All in all”. The athletes in their great ability point, perhaps unconsciously, to the one who created them. And Rio, as with London in 2012, has shown great and wonderful hospitality – a great Christian virtue and a real manifestation of holiness. I commend to you 1 Corinthians 9:24-27. Happy training!
With all best wishes, Fr Douglas McKittrick (Archdeacon of Chichester)
Beware of imitations!
A 30th Celebration at St. Botolph’s Ad majorem Dei gloriam
This month marks my 30th anniversary of being appointed to the post of Organist and Choirmaster at St. Botolph's, Heene.
The time seems to have passed very quickly, which I suppose must mean that I have enjoyed what I have done, at least for the most part!
I would just like to pay tribute to Father Peter Roberts who originally appointed me, and to all those many choir members and assistant organists who have contributed to the ministry of music in this place during that time - too many to name here, but you know who you are! I would also like to thank the members of our congregation, who have given me encouragement and expressed their appreciation of my efforts over the years. It has been, and is, a pleasure and a privilege to serve you in this way, and I look forward to doing so in the future as long as I am able. May our music continue to be offered to the greater glory of God. Neil Turner, organist and choirmaster
Our website – http://stbotolphsheene2015.com – is the only official website for our church and gives details of everything you need to know about our services, the building work which is currently being carried out, and forthcoming events. The 2015 in the title refers to the year in which the Church Commissioners agreed that our church could stay open for public worship!
Unfortunately, however, we have become aware of other sites – and one in particular – which have been using stbotolphsheene at the start of their web addresses and purporting to be associated with us. There is even someone claiming to be the priest of St. Botolph’s Heene, and offering financial advice (which is something we would never do). At present, our church is ‘in vacancy’, which means we have no priest but carry on our services with grateful thanks to local retired clergy.
The Diocese has been informed about the main offending website and is looking into this, but we would ask for your help too. If you find any website which begins with the words stbotolphsheene but ends with .org or .net, please be aware that this is noth-ing to do with us!
We have found many websites giving the incorrect web address for St. Botolph’s Church, Heene and also quoting an out of date telephone number and/or incorrect postcode. If you come across one of these, please do report it if you can. If you find you are unable to do so, please send details to the churchwardens: [email protected] or the publicity co-ordinator: [email protected] so that they can try to take any necessary action.
A conversation between God and St Francis
GOD: Francis, you know all about gardens and nature. What in the world is going on down there on the planet? What happened to the dandelions, violets, thistle and stuff I started eons ago? I had a perfect, no-maintenance garden plan. Those plants grow in any type of soil, withstand drought and multiply with abandon. The nectar from the long lasting blossoms attracts butterflies, honey bees and flocks of songbirds. I expected to see a vast garden of colours by now. But all I see are these green rectangles.
ST. FRANCIS: It’s the tribes that settled there, Lord: The Suburbanites. They started calling your flowers “weeds” and went to great lengths to kill them and replace them with grass.
GOD: Grass? But it’s so boring. It’s not colourful. It doesn’t attract butterflies, birds and bees, only grubs and sod worms. It’s sensitive to temperatures. Do these Suburbanites really want all that grass growing there?
ST. FRANCIS: Apparently so, Lord. They go to great pains to grow it and keep it green. They begin each spring by fertilizing grass and poisoning any other plant that crops up in the lawn.
GOD: The spring rains and warm weather probably make grass grow really fast. That must make the Suburbanites happy.
ST. FRANCIS: Apparently not, Lord. As soon as it grows a little, they cut it - sometimes twice a week.
GOD: They cut it? Do they then bail it like hay?
ST. FRANCIS: Not exactly, Lord. Most of them rake it up and put it in bags.
GOD: They bag it? Why? Is it a cash crop? Do they sell it?
ST. FRANCIS: No Sir; just the opposite. They pay to throw it away.
GOD: Now let me get this straight. They fertilize grass so it will grow. And when it does grow, they cut it off and pay to throw it away?
ST. FRANCIS: Yes, Sir.
GOD: These Suburbanites must be relieved in the summer when we cut back on the rain and turn up the heat. That surely slows the growth and saves them a lot of work.
ST. FRANCIS: You aren’t going to believe this Lord. When the grass stops growing so fast, they drag out hoses and pay more money to water it so they can continue to mow it and pay to get rid of it.
GOD: What nonsense. At least they kept some of the trees. That was a sheer stroke of genius, if I do say so myself. The trees grow leaves in the spring to provide beauty and shade in the summer. In the autumn they fall to the ground and form a natural blanket to keep moisture in the soil and protect the trees and bushes. Plus, as they rot, the leaves form compost to enhance the soil. It’s a natural circle of life.
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ST. FRANCIS: You better sit down, Lord. The Suburbanites have drawn a new circle. As soon as the leaves fall, they rake them into great piles and pay to have them hauled away.
GOD: No. What do they do to protect the shrub and tree roots in the winter and to keep the soil moist and loose?
ST. FRANCIS: After throwing away the leaves, they go out and buy something which they call mulch. They haul it home and spread it around in place of the leaves.
GOD: And where do they get this mulch?
ST. FRANCIS: They cut down trees and grind them up to make the mulch.
GOD: Enough. I don’t want to think about this anymore. St Catherine, you’re in charge of the arts. What movie have you scheduled for us?
ST.CATHERINE: Dumb and Dumber, Lord. It’s a really stupid movie about .....
GOD: Never mind, I think I just heard the whole story from St Francis.
Revd Raymond Wood
Songs of Praise
Takeaway Supper and General
Knowledge Quiz
Saturday, 24th September
5.30 for 6.00pm in the
St. Botolph’s Rooms
(Manor Road entrance)
Come and join us for this enjoyable social event - all welcome.
£10 per ticket to include food, a drink and entry to the quiz
(with a fabulous restaurant-voucher prize!)
Choose your meal from:
Cod and Chips; Chicken and Chips or Cheese burger and Chips
Contact Jackie on 01903 202036 or
e-mail [email protected] to book.
St. Botolph’s Church will be holding a “Songs of Praise” event on Sunday, 16th
October at 4pm, followed by tea/coffee and cakes! We would love to see a full church for this occasion, to which everybody is welcome.
People of Heene are encouraged to vote for up to five hymns – sponsoring these at £1 per hymn – with the proceeds going to the continuing fundraising for our church building. Hymns may be chosen from New English Hymnal or from any of the extra hymn sheets which we have used over the past few years and reference copies of these will be available to consult in church. Along with the sponsorship forms and an ‘honesty box’, they will be sited at the west end of the church, on a table near to the font. The final date for votes to be ‘posted’ will be Sunday, 9
th October, after which
votes will be counted.
If you are not a regular member of our congregation, you are still very welcome to participate. Why not drop in to Friday Coffee – any Friday from 10.30am – 12 noon – using our Manor Road entrance and you can sign the sponsor form then?
The 12 most popular choices of hymn will be sung on the day, although we will try at least to mention all choices. When signing up to sponsor you are encouraged to write briefly about the reason(s) for your choice(s) and some of these comments will be read out on the day.
We are also hoping to produce a “Songs of Praise” CD which would, in due course, be on sale for the benefit of our church. Neil Turner, Organist & Choirmaster
News from the Belfry
Did you hear the bells ringing on Saturday 6th August? A number of people
commented to me on how nice they sounded. On that afternoon the bells were
being rung to celebrate the marriage of Cristina Ballesteros
and James Flockton who were married at St. Botolph’s
Church on that day. The service was taken by Father Roger
Walker.
Before the bells are rung for any service, they have to be
“raised” so that the mouth of the bell is facing upwards (as
shown in the photograph). Bells are attached to a wheel
and when they are rung they rotate through a full circle.
This gives great control as to when a bell produces its
sound as the
clapper strikes the bell. This enables
ringers to change the order that the
bells are rung in and hence the sound
that is produced. When we have
finished ringing, the bells are rung
down, which leaves them with their
mouths facing down and in a safe position.
Wedding ringing starts as soon as the bride and groom walk down the aisle, having
signed the register. The bells will be rung for about 20 minutes and what is rung will
depend on the ability of the band. However, the most important thing is that the
ringing sounds good to the ear with a steady rhythm and few bells “clashing” with
each other which leads to an unpleasant sound. Judging by the favourable
comments received, this was certainly the case!
If you would like to find out more about bellringing do come along on our practise
night—Wednesday from 7.30pm—9.00pm. We meet outside the Manor Road
entrance and we would be delighted to see you!
Rik Clay
Botolph Bell Editors visit to
The Botolph Bell editorial team visited the magazine’s printer, Premier Print Group of
Beckton, East London on Tuesday 26 July. Premier Print are experts at short production
runs of magazines, brochures, programmes and specialise in quick turn –round time.
On arrival we were met by Andy our
account manager and given a
welcome to the plant over a cup of
coffee upstairs in the office. Andy
explained that the print works had
moved from its premises in Bow,
East London where it had been since
it was established in 1983. Its move
last year had been the result of
expansion of the business and the necessity to invest in new equipment. The printer
handles 250 different titles each year varying from monthly magazines to one off print runs.
A modern printer needs to offer a variation of finishes from glossy front cover to embossed
or gold / silver foil finish. Paper options vary from gloss, silk, re-cycled or uncoated.
Botolph Bell is printed in 130 gsm silk coated
paper.
In the repro department on the first floor we
met Laurence who handles the electronically
transmitted file which is sent from the editor’s
computer each month. He does this at his desk
on a large monitor screen. His job is to check
the artwork on the file for correct colour and
convert everything into CMYB. (Cyan, Magenta,
Yellow, Black) for the spectrophotometers in
the first stage of the print process to monitor so that they can achieve pin sharp accuracy.
He also checks that the ‘bleed lines’ at the page edges are set correctly on each digitally
transmitted page of the magazine.
When he is happy he sends a message back to the editor with a corrected electronically
transmitted file requesting the editor to check it and send an OK to print. This process
usually takes place on a Monday.
Premier Print in Beckton
The state of the art printer today requires
ample space for machinery. The ‘clean room’
down in the print shop houses a new Agfa
Speedmaster plate maker which is the next
stage of the print process. The metal plates are
produced in A2 size aluminium sheets and is
calibrated in each of the 4 different colours
CMYB containing all of the artwork and
lettering.
The plates are then transferred to an impressive looking printing press with an equally
impressive sounding name, a Heidelberg SX Speedmaster. This presses the paper. Each page
in this part of the process is in a large format A2 size. When it comes from the machine it is
inspected by the operator and any blemish spotted at this stage is altered on the pressing
before the run commences. This process takes on average just under 10 minutes and when
the run commences it manages 15000 pages per hour.
The print run is now over and the completed A2 size pages must now wait their place in the
queue to be mechanically turned and folded
by a Stahl folder machine to the smaller A5
format we require. This machine handles
8000 copies per hour, so “mind your
fingers!!” Final process is stitching pages
together and packing into boxes ready for
dispatch which is all handled by one
machine. Fantastic!
For the four editors on the visit it was extremely satisfying to see the process which started
from being pieced together on a home computer, sent digitally to the printer and turned
into a magazine and returned ready for distribution in under five days.
The four photographs show (1)The Heidelberg speed master printer; (2) checking one of the
sheets of the Botolph Bell for quality ; (3) the machine that cuts the pages and (4) the
machine that assembles and staples the pages in the correct order .
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Get in the mood for music
By popular demand - and following their hugely successful May concert - the U3A “Inspired Instrumentalists” are back at St. Botolph’s Church, Heene on Saturday, 29th October at 7.30pm to give a concert in aid of local charity Guild Care.
St. Botolph’s has a long-standing connection with Guild Care, a charity which helps the local community in many different ways. Its newest Dementia Care Home, Haviland House, in Durrington, is named after one of its founders - the Revd. Edmund Arthur Haviland, who was Rector at St. Botolph’s from 1931 until 1947.
The Inspired Instrumentalists go from strength to strength and now have 30 members practising regularly, filling the St. Botolph’s Room on a Wednesday morning with music and laughter.
As with the May 2016 concert, there will be plenty of opportunity for audience participation. Clap along (or stamp your feet) to the Liberty Bell March, bob up and down to Alexander’s Rag-time Band, swing to In the Mood and join in with a sing-a-long with the U3A ukuleles! At the request of Guild Care, the concert will finish with a reprise of the extract from the 1812 Overture in which the audience can be cannons - great fun! Maybe this time the audience will be better behaved and won’t produce the sporadic outbursts of firework-like bangs we had last time!!!
Talented young clarinettist, Jo Clay, will be playing a solo as one of the ‘guest’ acts at the concert - details of others taking part will follow next month.
Admission will be free, with a retiring collection. There will be an interval for light refreshments and the concert will finish at about 9pm. Everyone is very welcome, but you might want to make sure you are there early to get a good seat, as this is bound to be a very popular event!
Please do come along and help support Guild Care. The charity has kindly agreed to make a donation from the proceeds to St. Botolph’s too, in recognition of the church hosting the concert.
The Inspired Instrumentalists,
under Musical Director, Tony
Tournoff, at their May concert.
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Billy and Sue
It would seem that age does not necessarily bring wisdom.
Billy the cat has bladder problems and needs various medications: antibiotic tablets, pain relief and a solution to relax his bladder. Billy has been with us for two days now and, understandably, objects to having numerous medications stuffed into his mouth. So far he has managed to bite the nurse every time: Billy – 3, Nurses – 0!
As Sue is now the only one of the veterinary nurses with a fully functioning pair of hands, it is her turn to step up to the plate. Duly warned, she first squirts the bladder relaxing solution into his mouth. Apart from a few growls and some frothing he takes it rather well. Emboldened, she holds his head and drops the tablet into his open mouth. It doesn’t go all the way in, so she puts her finger in to poke it down and Billy seizes his chance and clamps his teeth around her finger!
Now Sue, like me, is a mature nurse and has many years of experience but, having extracted her finger from Bily, what is her first action? She puts it into her mouth!
Billy is now 4 for 4 – and Sue is left wondering whether she will need incontinence pads in the morning!!
When it comes to veterinary care, you want only the best for your pet. We understand that your pet is an important member of your family and we understand the special bond you share.
At Heene Road Vets we are committed
to providing your pet with leading
veterinary services in a caring and
compassionate environment and we
look forward to working with you to keep
your pet healthy and happy, now and for
years to come. Please look us up on
www.heeneroadvets.co.uk
or telephone 01903 200187
for an appointment.
Or you can find us on facebook.
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It’s a vet’s life
Friday Coffee Every Friday, 10.30 am - 12 noon,
St. Botolph’s Church Rooms
(Please use the back door to the church, on Manor Road, Worthing)
Hot drinks, cakes and savouries at very reasonable
prices.
Do come and join us — everyone is very
welcome!
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Last month’s Sudoku solution.
PARISH COMMUNITY
LUNCH
At the
Beechwood Hall Hotel,
Wykeham Road, Worthing
Sunday, September 18th,
12.30 for 12.45pm
Two courses for just £12
To book, please call
Christine Roberts on
01903 527176
Who’s buried in Heene Cemetery?
Benjamin Nicholson Jones (1854 - 1924) and Miranda Jones (1856 - 1931) JONES - In Loving Memory of B. NICHOLSON JONES “BENNIE" who died 23
rd May
1924 aged 68. Also of MIRANDA his wife Died 13th Dec.1931 aged 83.
Benjamin Nicholson Jones was born in Hackney in 1854 to Henry Joseph and Mary Ann Jones (nee Nicholson), both Londoners. He was baptised in October 1854 at St. John, Hackney. The family was then living in Kings Row, The Grove, and there were nine children in all, born over 10 years.
By 1861, Henry’s mother, Mary Ann, had died and, aged 5, Benjamin was living in Grove Place, Hackney, with grandmother Catherine Nicholson. She was described as a
76 year-old, widowed, fund holder, head of the household. Her unmarried daughter, Catherine, was with her and Henry, her son-in-law, Benjamin’s father. Eight of Henry’s children were there and there were four servants looking after them all. Henry Jones, a dealer, died in 1870.
In 1881 in Hackney, Benjamin was a clerk, with the East London Water Works, living in the household of his aunt, Catherine Nicholson, with six of his siblings and his widowed uncle, John Thomas Jones.
Benjamin and Miranda were married on the 4th October 1881 in the parish church, Notting Hill. Miranda (born in Hammersmith in 1876) was living in Ladbroke Road. Her father was Gottlieb Augustus Treyer Evans, merchant, and her mother Emily (nee Spike). Miranda was the third of their six children, all born in Middlesex. By 1891 Benjamin had become chief clerk, East London Water Co. and was living in Finchley, with Miranda plus two servants.
Wood cut depicting the various
installations of the company in
1886.
He suffered a bout of serious illness in the late 1890s, and was in the Holloway Sanatorium.
It may well be for this reason that Benjamin retired, and, with Miranda, was at Sunnyside, (now no.7) St Michael’s Rd. in 1901 He was described as a retired company accountant, East London Water Works Co. With them were Augustus Evans, 13 yr-old nephew, born in Wandsworth, and Jane Elliott, 19 yr-old general servant from Findon. The couple had no children. They were still at Sunnyside in 1911.
Benjamin died on the 23rd June 1924 at Fernlea, 9 St Michael’s Road. Probate was given to Miranda. It would be interesting to know why the couple moved to the house next door! In 1924, after Benjamin’s death, Miranda was living at Fernlea with George and Jean Ford. George died in 1927, and is buried in Heene Cemetery. Jean was still at Fernlea when Miranda died.
Liz Lane
Churchwardens Paul Wadey Diane Le Mare
01903 506855
01903 241673
Choir
Music at Heene
Neil Turner, Organist/Choirmaster
01903 504386 [email protected]
Music at Heene
Box Office
Nick Le Mare 01903 241673
Bell ringers Liz Lane, Tower Captain 01903 501422
Publicity
Botolph Bell Magazine
Jackie Didymus, Co-ordinator 01903 202036 [email protected]
Botolph Bell Distribution
Rik Clay 01903 693587
Botolph Bell Advertising Richard Buqué [email protected]
Friday Coffee
Sue Wadey 01903 506855
Parish Lunch Bookings Christine Roberts 01903 527176
Prayer Group Cleo Roberts 01903 823811
Splat Messy Play
(Mother & Toddler Group)
Nicki Tyrrell 07792 991401 or
01903 233794
U3A Inspired
Instrumentalists
Tony Tournoff 01903 208588 [email protected]
Tai Chi/Kick Boxing Shafi 07432597647 [email protected]
Are you - or is someone you know - going into Worthing Hospital?
If you would like spiritual support, please ring Deacon Rachel Bennett of the Hospital Chaplaincy Team on
07826 891305 to arrange a visit or to have a chat.
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