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Underriver Newssheet
SEPTEMBER 2017
Welcome to
Rev Serena Willoughby
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Key: BCP = Book of Common Prayer - a service using traditional (17th C) language and form; CW = Common Worship - a service using contemporary (21st C) language and form
The Church of St Margaret, Underriver
Contact:... St Lawrence Vicarage, Stone Street, Sevenoaks, Kent TN15 0LQ
Telephone: 01732 761766 Email: [email protected]
Church Calendar SEPTEMBER
3 12th after Trinity White
15:00 Collation, Induction and Installation of Rev Serena Willoughby and Licensing of Gretel Wakeham as Lay Reader By the Bishop of Rochester
10 13th after Trinity Green
No Service at St Margaret’s 9:45 Joint Family Communion at St Lawrence’s
17 14th after Trinity Green
11:15 Short Family Communion (CW) Readings: Exodus 14:9-end & Matthew 18:21-35
24 15th after Trinity Green
11:15 Family Communion (CW) Readings: Philemon 1:21-end & Matthew 20:1-16
OCTOBER
1 HARVEST Green
11:15 Harvest Festival Service Reading: Deuteronomy 8:7-18
St Margaret’s Church Website St Margaret’s now has its own website. To keep up to date about services and events please see
www.stmargaretsunderriver.org.uk
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Born and raised in Tonbridge I’m almost a local girl.
I’ve certainly visited the White Rock Pub a few times over the years.
Educated at Bennett Memorial School in Tunbridge Wells, I worked for Coutts, The Barnabas Trust Carrotty Wood and then went to 'Vicar School', Oak Hill Theological College, in London to do a Theology Degree.
I went there hoping to go off and travel the world as a missionary, but God had other plans; and it’s been as equal an adventure being an Ordained minister in the Church of England for over 20 years now.
I’m really looking forward to Parish ministry again, having been Vicar of St George’s Weald until about 3 years ago when I moved to Chaplaincy at Christ’s School Richmond, in Surrey.
Christ’s School for the last three years has been a wonderful educational and exhilarating time of ministry. Working with teenagers and adults has certainly taught me a lot about life and indeed myself. I’ve certainly got some stories to tell, only a few of which can make it into
sermons!
I hope to bring back a lot of this experience into the richness and variety of Parish life. I will also be the Chaplain at Bethany School in Goudhurst; and that I think will partner really well with life here in Underriver and Stone Street.
I’m married to John, a lifelong Liverpool Football Club fan and Assistant Vice-principal at Skinners Kent Academy in Tunbridge Wells. We have two Children, Esther at Judd in Tonbridge and Freddie at Tunbridge Wells Grammar School for Boys, also a lifelong Liverpool fan! We have a little crazy dog, Coco, who is loving life and the space in the Vicarage - as are we all.
I’m looking forward to being your Vicar and getting to know you.
“I have come that they might have life, life in all its fullness”, says Jesus in John’s gospel. Let’s live this message out together as the people of God in this place.
As printed in the order of Service for 3rd September
Serena writes:
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Memorial Concert for Heather Clemence
Given by students of the Royal Academy & the Royal College of Music
Saturday 23rd September at 7:00pm in St Margaret’s.
In aid of the Church and Scotts Project Trust equally.
The concert will be by students of the Royal Academy and Royal College of Music
- See also page 11 -
Followed by refreshments in the Village Hall
Tickets £15 each (with request for generous donation by gift aid.
Tickets application from J. A. Clemence, “Bassetts”, Mill Lane, Hildenborough, TN11 9LX tel: 01732
833338 or email [email protected]
HARVEST FESTIVAL LUNCH
We are holding our Harvest Lunch as usual after the Harvest Festival Service which this year is on 1st October at 11.15am. There is a flier enclosed with the Newssheet which gives further details.
As usual, we are very much dependent on the good will and generosity of Underriver cooks and helpers to make this a success. If you are able to cook a cottage or apple pie, or provide help with the drinks or serving up, or in any oth-er way, I should very much like to hear from you (telephone 832408 or email [email protected]).
This is a happy occasion which is one of the highlights of the St. Margaret’s year but we also have in mind those who enjoy far less of this world’s good things than we do, living in one of the loveliest parts of England. All the pro-ceeds go to Christian Aid as in previous years. This year the charge for children remains the same as previously but reluctantly I have decided that it would be right to double the charge for adults to £10 per head. This had been £5 for a number of years and £10 is still a very good deal for two home-cooked courses, with all the proceeds going to the charity.
This year will be the first Harvest celebration with our new vicar Serena Willoughby and her husband John so it would be lovely to see as many of you as possible at the Lunch.
Andrea Pierce
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Underriver Village Association
Chairman: Miles Hayward
Annual Membership £10 per household - To join contact [email protected]
Pilates Classes Mondays 7:30 pm and 8:30 pm
Tuesdays 9:25 am
Contact: Zoe George 07950 494 335 Email: [email protected] www.zoegeorgepilates.com
BOOT CAMP Fast paced circuit based workout
Every Tuesday 7.30pm Contact: Chris -
email: [email protected] or call 07796 693756
Dates for your diaries:
• Oct 7th Race Night
• Oct 27th Fireworks & Halloween Night
• Dec 8th Village Christmas Dinner
• Dec 10th Second Wind Christmas Concert St Margaret’s
Cookies Kitchen Children's cookery classes held during
school holidays & at weekends. For further information -
email: [email protected] or call 07786 271227
The Band Jam Runs a three day courses in Underriver during
school holidays for young singers and musicians aged between 8-14 years old.
For further information - email: [email protected].
Telephone: 07786 166009
Fireworks & Halloween Night
This year’s village fireworks night will take place on
Friday 27th October at The White Rock.
There will be Halloween Fancy Dress Competition & Pumpkin Cutting Competition.
Delicious Hot Dog’s & Burgers will be available from 7.00pm followed by fireworks!!
Entry is free; however there will be a collection during the evening to cover the cost of the fireworks. Surplus monies will be donated to both this year’s
British Legion Poppy Appeal & the upkeep of Underriver Village Hall.
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As the Flower Show and St Margaret’s 150th Celebration were on the same weekend this year the Village Hall was full to bursting with masses of entries in the flowers, fruit and veg Classes with a dead heat on points in two classes which is very unusual. Also we had Judy Graydon’s amazing village archive which is getting more detailed every time I see it. This time early school photos have had the pupils identified. Only the flower arranging classes were depleted because of the fantastic floral display in the church which meant our normal entrants had been hijacked!
The weather could have been kinder, it poured with rain for most of the afternoon but it meant that everyone stayed in the hall and really enjoyed look-ing at the winners and losers and eating Sarah Owlett’s teas. The fruit on the presidents stall moved inside at the height of the storm and instantly sold out, thank you Fionna, we would have really missed it if your granddaughter hadn’t been on hand to deliver to us.
The next thing on the agenda is the AGM which is on Thursday 26th October.
Angela Ridge
UNDERRIVER HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY
FLOWER SHOW RESULTS Jubilee cup Mrs B Granville
For the best Indoor Flowering Plant
Pam Cup Mr C Thornton Highest number of points in the Vegetable Classes
Freddie Newell Cup The Hurrions Best collection of Vegetables
Silver Cup Mrs M Owlett Highest number of points in the Fruit Classes
Felicity Poole Cup The Hurrions Best exhibit in the Fruit Classes
Absaloms Rose Bowl Mrs M Hitchcock Highest number of points in the Rose classes
President’s Cup Mrs L Law Highest number of points other then Roses
Palmer Cup Mr C Thornton
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The Sevenoaks Greensand Commons project is continuing to
encourage people to get involved and to give their views. Information about the pro-ject is available on the following website:
http://www.kentwildlifetrust.org.uk/sevenoaks-greensand-commons.
The following walks have been arranged for September: • 5th September 2017 - Hosey Common walk – meet at Hosey Common car park, Hosey Com-mon Road Westerham TN16 1PL • 7th September 2017 - Farley Common walk – meet on the common by Farley Lane TN16 1UD • 11th September 2017 - Crockhamhill Common walk – meet at Crockhamhill car park, Hosey Common Road TN16 1PP • 13th September 2017 - Bitchet Common walk – meet at One Tree Hill Car Park, Carter's Hill TN15 0SN • 19th September 2017 - Fawke Common walk – meet on St Julian Road, by the junction with Fawke Wood Road TN15 0RT • 21st September 2017 - Seal Chart and Redhill Wood walk - Meet and park by St Lawrence CEP School/ St. Lawrence Church on Church Road, Stone Street TN15 0LQ • 26th September 2017 - Sevenoaks Common walk – meet on the common at the junction of Weald Road and Windmill Road TN13 1QZ
Best exhibit in the flower classes
Bill Mason Cup Sheila Grove Best exhibit of herbs
Black Charles Cup Sarah Owlett Best Cookery exhibit
Cook’s Cup Sarah Owlett Highest number of points in the Cooking Classes
Tudor House Cup Mrs A Martin Best Craft exhibit
Arthur Palmer Cup Mrs T Granville Highest number of points in the flower arranging classes
Worshipful Company of Gardeners’ Diploma Mrs S Candlin
Worshipful company of Gardeners’ Floral Art Diploma Mrs T Granville
Young Underriver Classes
Jill Tidd Cup Florence Wells Highest number of points in the Children’s Classes
Mollie Bentley Cup Clementine Williams Highest number of points in the Childrens Craft Classes
Junior Cooks Cup Leo McFadyen
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34th ANNUAL FAMILY DOG SHOW
Absaloms Farm Underriver
Sunday 3rd September at 2 pm
Refreshments, Raffle, Spectators Welcome
All proceeds to Royal Veterinary College Animal Care Trust
Phone 01732 838716 for further details
M. Owlett
UNDERRIVER RACE NIGHT SATURDAY 7th OCTOBER
7PM AT UNDERRIVER VILLAGE HALL
Tickets on sale for £15, price includes a Fish and Chip supper (option of sausages, chicken or vegetable bake)
Bring your own drinks.
Tables of 8 available. First race begins at 7:30pm
(Sponsorship of races and horses are available on request.)
Profits to be split between the UVA and Kent Air Ambulance.
Tickets available from [email protected]
• 28th September 2017 - Sevenoaks Weald Village Common drop-in session – meet on the common, by the Weald Community Primary School on Long Barn Road TN14 6PY
All start at 6.30pm and will last for approx. one hour. Postcodes are approx. location only. Please contact [email protected] to let us know you would like to come along. If you cannot make a walk and would like to give your views please email Andrew or telephone Fidelity Weston on 01732 463372 and leave a mes-sage. Thank you.
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Live shows on stage
From Tuesday 5th to Saturday 9th September Tunbridge Wells’ Assembly Hall Theatre (01892 530613) will be staging The Wedding Singer, a stage musical based on the Broadway film. In 1985, Hair is huge, greed is good and rock-star wannabe Robbie Hart is New Jersey’s wed-ding singer. When his own fiancée dumps him at the al-tar, Robbie makes every wedding as disastrous as his own. Can sweet-natured Julia lure Robbie back or is he going to see her head off down the aisle with Wall Street bad boy Glenn?
From Saturday 16th to Saturday 21st September the new season at Ton-bridge’s Oast Theatre (01732 363849) will kick off with Our Country’s Good, based on Thomas Keneally’s novel The Playmaker. In 1789 Australia a young married lieutenant is directing rehearsals of the first play ever to be staged in that country. With only two copies of the text, a cast of convicts and one lead-ing lady who may be about to be hanged, conditions are hardly ideal … The play is based on a true story and sounds very promising.
On Thursday 21st September at the Assembly Hall (01892 530613) Russian State Opera will perform Puccini’s Madam Butterfly. Set in Japan at the turn of the 20th century, this wonderful opera is based on a true story of a Japanese geisha girl who had a son by ‘marriage’ to an American naval officer who soon deserted her, leaving her heartbroken. The opera includes One fine day and the Humming Chorus and will be sung in Italian with English surtitles.
On Thursday 28th September at Tunbridge Wells’ Trinity Arts Theatre (01892 678678) Merely Theatre will stage their version of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Young lovers and would-be thespians escape the city and lose themselves in the woodland realm of feuding forest gods. They become entan-gled in the magic, thanks to an impish trickster who gives them all eyes for someone (or something) else. The company is said to have a stripped-back style that puts the focus on story-telling and on making theatre accessible, entertain-ing and energised - but maybe traditionalists should make further enquiries.
Screened live performances and encores
September screened performances will include:
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LOCAL THEATRE
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Simon Stone’s radical production of Lorca’s Yerma from the National Thea-tre – live at the Stag on Thursday 14th September and encored at Trinity on Friday 15th September; and
Mozart’s The Magic Flute from the Royal Opera House – live at Trinity on Wednesday 20th September.
My apologies: I have not managed to find out about September screenings at the Tunbridge Wells Odeon.
Arthur Rucker
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New Ladies Choir in Underriver
After the success of the U Fest choir I have managed to arrange for Dani Shirtcliffe ( Richard and Elizabeth’s talented daughter-in-law) to run a new and exciting 5 week choir workshop in Underriver Village Hall on a Monday morn-ing at 9.30am. Dani is an amazing teacher with a great relaxed style and I know that she will make it really fun.
The dates are on Mondays as follows :-
11th September 18th September 25th September 2nd October 9th October
The session will run for 1 hr 20 mins followed by tea and coffee and will be £10 per week payable in advance by cheque as a 5 week block. You do not have to be able to read music to join in as Dani helps us learn by providing training tracks via e mail and you just click on them to listen to them at home its quite simple and in the lessons we learn by rote although you are welcome to have the music if that’s how you prefer to sing! The songs will be from a huge range of styles and genres so there should be something for everyone the sessions are informal and great fun. Its incredibly uplifting to hear us all together once we have learnt a song - so why not give it a try?
To make this worthwhile we need a minimum of 12 people so I would ask that if you are interested you come back to me asap and we can arrange pay-ment etc. Please pass this on to anyone in the village or beyond that you think might like to come along everyone welcome. I really hope that you will be able to join us and if we get enough interest we may even be able to continue until Christmas.
I look forward to hearing from you my e mail is [email protected] or phone me on 01732 833943
Belinda Goodwin
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Services at St Lawrence, Seal Chart
SEPTEMBER
3 12 after Trinity 8:00 Holy Communion (BCP)
15:00 Installation at St Margaret’s
10 13 after Trinity 9:45 Family Communion (CW)
17 14 after Trinity 9:45 Family Communion (CW)
24 15 after Trinity 9:45 Matins (BCP)
1 Oct 16 after Trinity 8:00 Holy Communion (BCP)
9:45 Harvest Festival Service
Memorial Concert for Heather Clemence
There have been a number of difficulties since the original flyer was drafted.
The London Scottish Pipe Band has an engagement in Belgium that weekend so there will be no piper.
There are some who may be relieved about this.
Amy Manford has been given a leading part in a London Musical and her con-tract forbids her from other engagements. She is replaced by Carly Owen a young Welsh soprano.
Liam Crangle, the accompanist, became unable to take part and he has been replaced by Marie Otaka, a young Japanese pianist.
Jane Chee Ng, the violinist, has suffered a wrist injury which sadly means she cannot play at all until it is completely cured. We have decided not to replace her but to increase the amount of organ music.
For reasons of timing the Mascagni item has been omitted.
Tickets are selling well, so far about 55 out of possible 120 or so and many generous donations have been received both from those attending and those who cannot.
If you cannot find an application from please call me on 01732 833338 or email me at [email protected]
John Clemence
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Church Cleaning
2 Sep M Clark & L Law
9 Sep S McFadyen & S Rook
16 Sep S Brunton & J Fair
23 Sep B Leafe & L Notley
30 Sep J Martineau & L Weston
Church Brass Cleaning
16 Sep Robert Wells & Phillip Payne
21 Oct Elizabeth & Richard Shirtcliff
Rotas for St Margaret’s
Sidesmen/-women and Readers 3 Sep Installation Service
10 Sep 9:45 Joint Service at St Lawrence’s
17 Sep Sides: L Notley
Reader: Phillip Payne
24 Sep Sides: C Thornton Readers: John Clemence
1 Oct Sides: tba Readers: Arthur Rucker
Newssheet subscription: £7.00 or £13.00 for postal subscribers. Cheques payable to St Margaret’s Church, Underriver or cash should be handed to the person who delivers your
newssheet or Belinda Goodwin, The Kentish Barn, Underriver, TN15 0SJ.
Church Flowers
3 Sep Installation Service
10 Sep Ann Martin
17 Sep Sue Tawney
24 Sep Janet Rucker
1 Oct HARVEST
Useful Names and Addresses Church Warden Andrea Pierce, 1 Grenadier Cottages, Riding Lane, Hildenborough, TN11 9QH; 832408.
Underriver Village Association Secretary: Robert Talbot, Weald Heights, Fawke Common, Underriver, TN15 0SP; 761546. [email protected]
Village Hall Reservations Hall Bookings Secretary: 07548 723867 or [email protected]
www.underriver-village.org.uk Omar Mullick , [email protected]
Thursday Underriver Group Secretary: Pat Hope, 01732 833933.
Horticultural Society Secretary: Mary Owlett, Absaloms Farm; 838716.
Underriver Youth Group Charles Honnywill, Underriver Farm; 838036.
Cricket Club Ian Batty 07877 106681
Scotts Project Secretary: Jill Scott, 833498.
Kent County Council Cllr. Roger Gough [email protected]
Sevenoaks District Council Ward Representatives Roderick Hogarth, 01732 760325 [email protected]
Julia Thornton, 07831 234449 [email protected]
Seal Parish Council www.sealparishcouncil.org.uk
Clerk - Lorna Talbot; 01732 763488. [email protected] Tim Martin; 07929 839914 [email protected] Fidelity Weston: 463372 [email protected]
Parish Administrative Assistant Tim Pierce [email protected]
All contributions should be submitted to the editor by 15th of the preceding month.
Editor Tim Pierce, 1 Grenadier Cottages, Riding Lane, Hildenborough TN11 9QH
01732 832408 [email protected] Printed by Sarum Graphics
