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SILVER THREADS Part Three 1990 - 2000
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INTO THE 1990’s
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In Feb 1990 Students from Bell College were welcome at the monthly service. and in May a white magnolia tree was planted on the lawns of the Lodge in memory of former resident Lily Drane.
The Dress Shop began visiting this estate regularly. Sales of Christmas Cards assisted the Funds. In April a Social Evening was held, and on several occasions residents visited social evenings at the Lodge. In August a collection in memory of Beatrice Whitmore formerly of Crawley End Chrishall was collected for the Arthritis & Rheumatism Council for Research.
In the June the new Washing Room with washer - dryers was built onto the Common Room. In November residents were able to enjoy the barbecue and fireworks of the Lodge Residents. The Committee gave a Boots Token to every resident for Christmas and paid the Communal TV Aerial Licence..
In February 1991 The Golden Wedding of Mr and Mrs Bob Smith was observed. THE LODGE became a Day Centre to which some of our residents have since gone regularly and the Lodge organised a number of events including a Fun Day and an out of doors sale in the drive.
The European Economic Community’s Food Surplus Council provided a free hand out to the elderly of a can of steak or a pound of butter. Joan managed to get R G Jeffery and Son, to begin a regular service door to door for residents selling fresh fruit and vegetables. She also managed to get a window cleaner to call regularly.
The Town Band played one afternoon on the Patio. Some residents went with Walden Place residents to shop at the Arndale Centre at Luton where Mary Elsom collapsed and spent the day in Luton hospital. Joan organised what became an annual service of delivering Christmas Greeting Cards from Residents using a box in the Common Room to fellow residents .Alice Wright’s 90th birthday was observed.
In January 1992 ten students from Bell College attended the Monthly Service. They included a young Jew from Tel Aviv in Israel, and the others were from Argentina., Brazil, Taiwan, Japan, Belgium and Turkey. In March the hair dressing service at the Common Room was introduced.
The Labour Party candidate for the general election, John Kotz visited the residents. Mobile library facilities have been introduced for some residents. The Gift shop continues to visit from time to time. In June the Darby and Joan Club visited Felixstowe. In July workmen cleared the guttering of all the flats.
On July 31st a meeting of residents was advised that all loose mats and carpets in hallways and landings being considered dangerous under the Health and Safety legislation must be removed. This caused some annoyance as some residents had beautiful decorated wall to wall carpets in these areas A skip was provided during August to put mats and other old junk in. Residents all had a general tidy up of their flats and sheds and got rid of a lot of rubbish. Later hallways, stairways and landings were painted dark blue. Towards the end of the year and into 1993 all these areas were provided with hard wearing fitted carpets in various shades as provided for other sheltered housing areas and Radwinter Road Community Hospital.
Three Jumble Sales and 2 visits of Dress Shows profited the Fund. Stanley Wilson had a fine display of red tulips this year around their lawn border and have planted a lot of Rose bushes for next year onwards.
In May a group of artists sat about the site sketching. During the year lots of helmeted children from RAB School had cycling proficiency courses and tests around the site road. This was repeated in following years. we have also had more than our fair share of teenage skate boarders, young courting couples, and beer swilling youths. In May the Lodge had a fete including a bouncy castle, a clown and donkey rides around four acres. Our residents were not seen riding or bouncing.
YOUTH AND AGE REMEMBERED
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From September Joan welcomed a group of County High School students to regular community work on site, visiting residents, sweeping up leaves, tidying up gardens, and putting up the Christmas decorations. They included Beverley , Katherine, Claire and Alex. They helped organise the Residents Christmas Party and circulated greetings cards.
The roses on the small power shed have been particularly plenteous and beautiful thus year and indeed it was a very good year for all the roses. In October was celebrated Maggie Butcher’s 90th Birthday and in November similarly celebrated Nelly Potts 90th Birthday in both cases with a large Greeting Card signed by all residents.
Residents enjoyed the Fireworks Display on the lawns of the Lodge on Bonfire Night. Also during November the Rev Brian Tucker who had reorganised our monthly worship services led his last before moving on to Bradford. Four hen pheasants walked across the gardens of our Eastern boundary. Residents heard a talk at the Common Room about Dealing with Deafness.
Joan assisted with the emergency to help a plane load of refugees from Kosova who arrived at Stansted Airport. The Lodge cooked meals for some of them. In December some residents visited Harlow together on a shopping expedition. At Christmas the Fund again paid the Community TV Licence.
1993 marked the Pearl Anniversary of Four Acres. (30 years). The long running Bingo Sessions ceased as the Caller having reached 80 felt it was time to call it a day. The year began on a sombre note with the sudden death of Miss Kathleen Emery, of Number 33. Eight residents including Joan, Nora, and John, attended the funeral service. Kathleen, who was almost 78, had been born in Shooter’s Hill in London and had lived with her parents, brother and sister in Landscape View.
Remaining single she had served as a nursery nanny in South Africa, New Zealand, and the USA. At one time she looked after the children of screen star Frank Sinatra. She returned to England to Four Acres to look after her mother Ruby. Kathleen had a lifelong love of children, animals, birds and flowers. She was a great conversationalist, with a good sense of humour, an ability to listen, and was a much appreciated visitor and expert in embroidery, and a prolific writer of letters. She also made mouth watering cheese scones.
February brought the completion of the fitting of the hall and landing carpets and the regular visits of Jackie the cleaner with her hoover began. A new pay phone was installed at the common room, and new high protective wooden fencing was erected on our north Eastern approaches.
CHANGES, REMOVALS AND FRESH BEGINNINGS
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In April Cambridge Cables contractors dug up pathways to install their green cable pipes for telephones and cable TV A grey green car long parked on the Residents parking lay-by and used by it’s owner as a storage facility was finally confiscated and dragged away in May.
Several schools used the road for cycling training . St John Ambulance Brigade cadets meeting on the Lodge drive way’ used the roadway for drill practice. This summer was clearly “The Year of the Daisy” with a carpet of daisies all over the grass areas of our site and defying the new council hoover-mower.
Four Acres lost a great friend in May in the person of Stan Mallyon of No 11 who died peacefully but suddenly on his 94th birthday . 15 residents represented his neighbours and friends at the funeral service. The Baptist Minister, Tricia Troughton, described him as “a gentleman and a gentle man and said that “Stan was a rock, who knew the Rock...Jesus Christ and Stan relied upon Him as others relied upon Stan.” He left a message “Don’t grieve for me. I’ve had a wonderful life. Thank you.”
In May a seat was delivered to the Baptist Church in memory of our former resident Ethel Swan. Joan Hoadley had a long painful illness and was off duty many weeks.
Florence Ward and her cat Will who had been the cat of her late neighbour Doris Drane Some residents were offered to buy the leasehold of their flat. Rents rose to £44.45 for a 2 bed roomed flat and £7.10 for heating, and this compared with £2 and £1.20p, 20 years ago.
A 30 yearold silver birch on site presented by relatives of a resident was felled in May and removed. Folk at a social evening in June were entertained by the Finchingfield Singers. Residents went on several outings with people from other sites. The Darby and Joan Club celebrated their 21st Anniversary.
Deaths and removals brought attendances at the monthly services from a peak of 30, down to a regular attendance of 8. But 26 attended the July service which was associated with a Bring & Buy Stall which alone raised £26 and with the offering was donated to the Vacation Bible School when 570 children were registered for a week in August of fun and study, about the Bible. This included 65 in the Teddy Bear Tent for 5-yearolds and 65 Seniors 12-15 year olds.
Mrs Ward embarked upon her gardening project looking after the garden outside the Common Room window, and around the small boiler shed. Bogus Caller Awareness signs were installed. Miss Dorothy Holltum moved out of No 37 into the Lodge the last of the original tenants, and Maria Helwig moved in. Council paid external window cleaning began..
Jim Taylor died and lots of residents attended his funeral Memorial Service which was led by Methodist Minister Rev Michael Giles. This included an exhibition of photos from the Albums. The High School girls helped Joan decorate the common room for Christmas and organised Christmas Party.
The infants from Katherine Semar School came in their Nativity costumes and sang carols at the Common Room. Residents presented a card with their signatures on it to Eileen Spall on the occasion of her 80th Birthday. and a similar signed card to John & Ivy Swan to mark their 50tth Wedding Anniversary.
The folks at 9, 11, 24 and 33 lit Four Acres up for Christmas with coloured lights around their windows or lighted trees in them while others decorated their stairways. By the end of December Christian Worship service attendances were back to 18 or 19. Bertha Maloney of No 10 collected cards after Christmas and used them to make up Scrapbooks for children in hospitals.
1994 saw the laying of a new carpet in the Common Room and the provision of new tops to the card tables. 22 residents took part in a Council run evacuation exercise to an emergency centre set up at the County High School. Garden contracts were privatised and the lawns got mowed more frequently.
An acacia tree between number 31 and 33 was felled and turned into saw dust on site. Much minor repair work to guttering, balconies, and windows was carried out and the whole site externally redecorated, some parts with 4 coatings. Number 28 and 32 had shower units installed.
The residences were regraded for higher Council Tax and later residents were informed that this had been cancelled and then it was imposed again. Guttering and balcony base cladding was repaired Bingo sessions recommenced in April a new caller having come forward.
In May was celebrated the 90th Birthday of Alice Maddams of No 35,who had arrived here 22 years earlier. She was born in Walden and lived at Walden for all but 5 years in London. She had nursed her parents and husband and brought up 2 sons. She was an ex-Sunday School teacher and Baptist Choir member and had been a member of the Baptist Church since 1961.
On July 1st John Diggons was awakened by a stone thrown by a youth that broke his window and a treasured vase. The youth was caught, cautioned and made to pay for criminal damage. He apologised. In July 22 attended the service and £31 was raised for VBS by Dutch Auctioning a Bring and Buy Stall. Tricia Troughton led the Harvest Thanksgiving Service and Joan distributed the Harvest produce in carrier bags.
At Christmas the High School girls again organised the Christmas Party and “Post Mistress Pat” Hoadley in her little red car again delivered the Christmas Mail that had been posted in the Common Room Red Pillar box. Workmen removed the large Garden Refuse Heap and constructed a small wire fenced area into which future rubbish should be placed. Joan ran a survey of residents to determine a proposal to put one water meter in each block, on the argument that this would save us all money. Eventually they were installed but on the basis of one to each flat and we did save money. 33 people attended the Christmas Carol service.
In February.1995 another Jumble Sale was held. Sliding doors were fitted inside the bungalows replacing the curtains previously used and new heating systems were added following the breakdown of the small pump house.
On March 12th Uttlesford Council staged another evacuation exercise and some tenants had a nice day out as a result. On April 6th a hedgehog crossed our S .E .perimeter Many residents, life long Co-op customers were stunned when the last Co-op shop in town closed on May 20th ending John Maddams’s 31 years career with them.
The V E Day Anniversary Weekend brought out the flags and bunting at several flats and in the afternoon John Diggons of No 42 with his medals clinking on his pullover was seen chasing a white balloon about the site that had escaped in the high winds from the decorations at the Lodge.
From May 12-16 workmen laid a concrete path at No 34 to enable Jerry Elsom to have access to his little green storage shed for his battery operated motor carriage.
Following the successful Jumble Sale in May surplus blankets were given to the local Boys’ Brigade collection for the Whitechapel Mission in London. The Rat Catcher had to call at 38 to deal with problems arising from feeding the birds.
We have a pair of magpies living here and lots of young thrushes and blackboards, and a pair of toads. Many people put out water for the birds during the drought.
In May with the Community Fund standing at £800, it was decided to invest in an external Dutch blind on the south end of the Common Room,. 27 residents attended a service in June led by Ray Mitson and Joan and John dutch auctioned a sale of goods raising £42 for VBS.
During the year meetings were held at the Common Room at which Church Music tapes were played, someone from CAMTAD spoke about deafness aids and how to use them, and a Mr Stevens talked about how to use the Library Service. Whist, Bingo and Darby and Joan Club all continued along with visits from Jenny’s, Bettaboot, Carnies Dresses and Yvonnes dresses.
There were also some coffee mornings. Twenty people welcomed the new Baptist Minister Malcolm Brown to his first visit here. Visits by Rev Laurie Bond the curate were much appreciated. The Animal Warden called in august to catch Sooty a stray cat and find him a new home. Arthur Jerry & Eliza Mary Elsom celebrated their Diamond Wedding Anniversary.
The flags and bunting came out again for VJ Day anniversary when a number of residents attended a special rally in Jubilee Gardens. Bonnie, Joan and David’s much loved pregnant dog died.
The Council issued warnings to residents about security but this did not stop 3 ground floor flats being burgled in October. Thirty people attended a meeting with the police afterwards. The Water Company after many days located and mended 3 serious water leaks. Joan and David acquired a new dog, Zack.
The County High School girls again helped Joan organise another Christmas Party and designed their own decor and sent each resident a Christmas Card.
Several Christmas Santas appeared on poles stuck in the ground or tied to balconies. Six flats used coloured lights, and several landings were decorated. Snow fell at Christmas but many residents managed to get away to enjoy the festival with friends or family. John Maddams slipped on the icy road opposite number 40 and slid round to number 35 on his back
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Read previously by 31 people before being moved to this new board
INTO THE 1990’s
##############
In Feb 1990 Students from Bell College were welcome at the monthly service. and in May a white magnolia tree was planted on the lawns of the Lodge in memory of former resident Lily Drane.
The Dress Shop began visiting this estate regularly. Sales of Christmas Cards assisted the Funds. In April a Social Evening was held, and on several occasions residents visited social evenings at the Lodge. In August a collection in memory of Beatrice Whitmore formerly of Crawley End Chrishall was collected for the Arthritis & Rheumatism Council for Research.
In the June the new Washing Room with washer - dryers was built onto the Common Room. In November residents were able to enjoy the barbecue and fireworks of the Lodge Residents. The Committee gave a Boots Token to every resident for Christmas and paid the Communal TV Aerial Licence..
In February 1991 The Golden Wedding of Mr and Mrs Bob Smith was observed. THE LODGE became a Day Centre to which some of our residents have since gone regularly and the Lodge organised a number of events including a Fun Day and an out of doors sale in the drive.
The European Economic Community’s Food Surplus Council provided a free hand out to the elderly of a can of steak or a pound of butter. Joan managed to get R G Jeffery and Son, to begin a regular service door to door for residents selling fresh fruit and vegetables. She also managed to get a window cleaner to call regularly.
The Town Band played one afternoon on the Patio. Some residents went with Walden Place residents to shop at the Arndale Centre at Luton where Mary Elsom collapsed and spent the day in Luton hospital. Joan organised what became an annual service of delivering Christmas Greeting Cards from Residents using a box in the Common Room to fellow residents .Alice Wright’s 90th birthday was observed.
In January 1992 ten students from Bell College attended the Monthly Service. They included a young Jew from Tel Aviv in Israel, and the others were from Argentina., Brazil, Taiwan, Japan, Belgium and Turkey. In March the hair dressing service at the Common Room was introduced.
The Labour Party candidate for the general election, John Kotz visited the residents. Mobile library facilities have been introduced for some residents. The Gift shop continues to visit from time to time. In June the Darby and Joan Club visited Felixstowe. In July workmen cleared the guttering of all the flats.
On July 31st a meeting of residents was advised that all loose mats and carpets in hallways and landings being considered dangerous under the Health and Safety legislation must be removed. This caused some annoyance as some residents had beautiful decorated wall to wall carpets in these areas A skip was provided during August to put mats and other old junk in. Residents all had a general tidy up of their flats and sheds and got rid of a lot of rubbish. Later hallways, stairways and landings were painted dark blue. Towards the end of the year and into 1993 all these areas were provided with hard wearing fitted carpets in various shades as provided for other sheltered housing areas and Radwinter Road Community Hospital.
Three Jumble Sales and 2 visits of Dress Shows profited the Fund. Stanley Wilson had a fine display of red tulips this year around their lawn border and have planted a lot of Rose bushes for next year onwards.
In May a group of artists sat about the site sketching. During the year lots of helmeted children from RAB School had cycling proficiency courses and tests around the site road. This was repeated in following years. we have also had more than our fair share of teenage skate boarders, young courting couples, and beer swilling youths. In May the Lodge had a fete including a bouncy castle, a clown and donkey rides around four acres. Our residents were not seen riding or bouncing.
YOUTH AND AGE REMEMBERED
#############################
From September Joan welcomed a group of County High School students to regular community work on site, visiting residents, sweeping up leaves, tidying up gardens, and putting up the Christmas decorations. They included Beverley , Katherine, Claire and Alex. They helped organise the Residents Christmas Party and circulated greetings cards.
The roses on the small power shed have been particularly plenteous and beautiful thus year and indeed it was a very good year for all the roses. In October was celebrated Maggie Butcher’s 90th Birthday and in November similarly celebrated Nelly Potts 90th Birthday in both cases with a large Greeting Card signed by all residents.
Residents enjoyed the Fireworks Display on the lawns of the Lodge on Bonfire Night. Also during November the Rev Brian Tucker who had reorganised our monthly worship services led his last before moving on to Bradford. Four hen pheasants walked across the gardens of our Eastern boundary. Residents heard a talk at the Common Room about Dealing with Deafness.
Joan assisted with the emergency to help a plane load of refugees from Kosova who arrived at Stansted Airport. The Lodge cooked meals for some of them. In December some residents visited Harlow together on a shopping expedition. At Christmas the Fund again paid the Community TV Licence.
1993 marked the Pearl Anniversary of Four Acres. (30 years). The long running Bingo Sessions ceased as the Caller having reached 80 felt it was time to call it a day. The year began on a sombre note with the sudden death of Miss Kathleen Emery, of Number 33. Eight residents including Joan, Nora, and John, attended the funeral service. Kathleen, who was almost 78, had been born in Shooter’s Hill in London and had lived with her parents, brother and sister in Landscape View.
Remaining single she had served as a nursery nanny in South Africa, New Zealand, and the USA. At one time she looked after the children of screen star Frank Sinatra. She returned to England to Four Acres to look after her mother Ruby. Kathleen had a lifelong love of children, animals, birds and flowers. She was a great conversationalist, with a good sense of humour, an ability to listen, and was a much appreciated visitor and expert in embroidery, and a prolific writer of letters. She also made mouth watering cheese scones.
February brought the completion of the fitting of the hall and landing carpets and the regular visits of Jackie the cleaner with her hoover began. A new pay phone was installed at the common room, and new high protective wooden fencing was erected on our north Eastern approaches.
CHANGES, REMOVALS AND FRESH BEGINNINGS
##############################
In April Cambridge Cables contractors dug up pathways to install their green cable pipes for telephones and cable TV A grey green car long parked on the Residents parking lay-by and used by it’s owner as a storage facility was finally confiscated and dragged away in May.
Several schools used the road for cycling training . St John Ambulance Brigade cadets meeting on the Lodge drive way’ used the roadway for drill practice. This summer was clearly “The Year of the Daisy” with a carpet of daisies all over the grass areas of our site and defying the new council hoover-mower.
Four Acres lost a great friend in May in the person of Stan Mallyon of No 11 who died peacefully but suddenly on his 94th birthday . 15 residents represented his neighbours and friends at the funeral service. The Baptist Minister, Tricia Troughton, described him as “a gentleman and a gentle man and said that “Stan was a rock, who knew the Rock...Jesus Christ and Stan relied upon Him as others relied upon Stan.” He left a message “Don’t grieve for me. I’ve had a wonderful life. Thank you.”
In May a seat was delivered to the Baptist Church in memory of our former resident Ethel Swan. Joan Hoadley had a long painful illness and was off duty many weeks.
Florence Ward and her cat Will who had been the cat of her late neighbour Doris Drane Some residents were offered to buy the leasehold of their flat. Rents rose to £44.45 for a 2 bed roomed flat and £7.10 for heating, and this compared with £2 and £1.20p, 20 years ago.
A 30 yearold silver birch on site presented by relatives of a resident was felled in May and removed. Folk at a social evening in June were entertained by the Finchingfield Singers. Residents went on several outings with people from other sites. The Darby and Joan Club celebrated their 21st Anniversary.
Deaths and removals brought attendances at the monthly services from a peak of 30, down to a regular attendance of 8. But 26 attended the July service which was associated with a Bring & Buy Stall which alone raised £26 and with the offering was donated to the Vacation Bible School when 570 children were registered for a week in August of fun and study, about the Bible. This included 65 in the Teddy Bear Tent for 5-yearolds and 65 Seniors 12-15 year olds.
Mrs Ward embarked upon her gardening project looking after the garden outside the Common Room window, and around the small boiler shed. Bogus Caller Awareness signs were installed. Miss Dorothy Holltum moved out of No 37 into the Lodge the last of the original tenants, and Maria Helwig moved in. Council paid external window cleaning began..
Jim Taylor died and lots of residents attended his funeral Memorial Service which was led by Methodist Minister Rev Michael Giles. This included an exhibition of photos from the Albums. The High School girls helped Joan decorate the common room for Christmas and organised Christmas Party.
The infants from Katherine Semar School came in their Nativity costumes and sang carols at the Common Room. Residents presented a card with their signatures on it to Eileen Spall on the occasion of her 80th Birthday. and a similar signed card to John & Ivy Swan to mark their 50tth Wedding Anniversary.
The folks at 9, 11, 24 and 33 lit Four Acres up for Christmas with coloured lights around their windows or lighted trees in them while others decorated their stairways. By the end of December Christian Worship service attendances were back to 18 or 19. Bertha Maloney of No 10 collected cards after Christmas and used them to make up Scrapbooks for children in hospitals.
1994 saw the laying of a new carpet in the Common Room and the provision of new tops to the card tables. 22 residents took part in a Council run evacuation exercise to an emergency centre set up at the County High School. Garden contracts were privatised and the lawns got mowed more frequently.
An acacia tree between number 31 and 33 was felled and turned into saw dust on site. Much minor repair work to guttering, balconies, and windows was carried out and the whole site externally redecorated, some parts with 4 coatings. Number 28 and 32 had shower units installed.
The residences were regraded for higher Council Tax and later residents were informed that this had been cancelled and then it was imposed again. Guttering and balcony base cladding was repaired Bingo sessions recommenced in April a new caller having come forward.
In May was celebrated the 90th Birthday of Alice Maddams of No 35,who had arrived here 22 years earlier. She was born in Walden and lived at Walden for all but 5 years in London. She had nursed her parents and husband and brought up 2 sons. She was an ex-Sunday School teacher and Baptist Choir member and had been a member of the Baptist Church since 1961.
On July 1st John Diggons was awakened by a stone thrown by a youth that broke his window and a treasured vase. The youth was caught, cautioned and made to pay for criminal damage. He apologised. In July 22 attended the service and £31 was raised for VBS by Dutch Auctioning a Bring and Buy Stall. Tricia Troughton led the Harvest Thanksgiving Service and Joan distributed the Harvest produce in carrier bags.
At Christmas the High School girls again organised the Christmas Party and “Post Mistress Pat” Hoadley in her little red car again delivered the Christmas Mail that had been posted in the Common Room Red Pillar box. Workmen removed the large Garden Refuse Heap and constructed a small wire fenced area into which future rubbish should be placed. Joan ran a survey of residents to determine a proposal to put one water meter in each block, on the argument that this would save us all money. Eventually they were installed but on the basis of one to each flat and we did save money. 33 people attended the Christmas Carol service.
In February.1995 another Jumble Sale was held. Sliding doors were fitted inside the bungalows replacing the curtains previously used and new heating systems were added following the breakdown of the small pump house.
On March 12th Uttlesford Council staged another evacuation exercise and some tenants had a nice day out as a result. On April 6th a hedgehog crossed our S .E .perimeter Many residents, life long Co-op customers were stunned when the last Co-op shop in town closed on May 20th ending John Maddams’s 31 years career with them.
The V E Day Anniversary Weekend brought out the flags and bunting at several flats and in the afternoon John Diggons of No 42 with his medals clinking on his pullover was seen chasing a white balloon about the site that had escaped in the high winds from the decorations at the Lodge.
From May 12-16 workmen laid a concrete path at No 34 to enable Jerry Elsom to have access to his little green storage shed for his battery operated motor carriage.
Following the successful Jumble Sale in May surplus blankets were given to the local Boys’ Brigade collection for the Whitechapel Mission in London. The Rat Catcher had to call at 38 to deal with problems arising from feeding the birds.
We have a pair of magpies living here and lots of young thrushes and blackboards, and a pair of toads. Many people put out water for the birds during the drought.
In May with the Community Fund standing at £800, it was decided to invest in an external Dutch blind on the south end of the Common Room,. 27 residents attended a service in June led by Ray Mitson and Joan and John dutch auctioned a sale of goods raising £42 for VBS.
During the year meetings were held at the Common Room at which Church Music tapes were played, someone from CAMTAD spoke about deafness aids and how to use them, and a Mr Stevens talked about how to use the Library Service. Whist, Bingo and Darby and Joan Club all continued along with visits from Jenny’s, Bettaboot, Carnies Dresses and Yvonnes dresses.
There were also some coffee mornings. Twenty people welcomed the new Baptist Minister Malcolm Brown to his first visit here. Visits by Rev Laurie Bond the curate were much appreciated. The Animal Warden called in august to catch Sooty a stray cat and find him a new home. Arthur Jerry & Eliza Mary Elsom celebrated their Diamond Wedding Anniversary.
The flags and bunting came out again for VJ Day anniversary when a number of residents attended a special rally in Jubilee Gardens. Bonnie, Joan and David’s much loved pregnant dog died.
The Council issued warnings to residents about security but this did not stop 3 ground floor flats being burgled in October. Thirty people attended a meeting with the police afterwards. The Water Company after many days located and mended 3 serious water leaks. Joan and David acquired a new dog, Zack.
The County High School girls again helped Joan organise another Christmas Party and designed their own decor and sent each resident a Christmas Card.
Several Christmas Santas appeared on poles stuck in the ground or tied to balconies. Six flats used coloured lights, and several landings were decorated. Snow fell at Christmas but many residents managed to get away to enjoy the festival with friends or family. John Maddams slipped on the icy road opposite number 40 and slid round to number 35 on his back
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WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT JESUS AND TRUE CHRISTIANITY TODAY?
access:- www.rejesus.co.uk
Don’t be afraid [ add your name here ] you are deeply loved by God. Be at peace. Take heart and be strong” God’s promise to Daniel and to us all”
Found In the Bible, book of Daniel chapter 10 v 19 New Living Translation
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Re: SILVER THREADS Part 3 1990 - 2000
« Reply #1 on Nov 29, 2005, 10:06pm »
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