Village news 22/7/17
Published 19 July 2017
Kings Bromley Show, Saturday 22nd July
A great day out for all the family including funfair, craft fair with demonstrations, food fair, trade and non-commercial stands. The programme starts with the horse show at 9.30 a.m. From noon, there will be children’s races, companion dog show, the Eureka Jazz Band and a parade of treasured vehicles. Displays of art, crafts, cookery, floral art, flowers, fruit and veg, photography, treasured vehicles, vegetables, woodworking and young crafts can all be view in the Horticultural marquee. A variety of refreshments will be available all day, including the Shardlow Real Ale bar bus.
Entertainment includes interactive Wildlife displays, The Sheep Roadshow, Teddy and Otto, the funny Woodland creatures, birds of prey, pony rides and The Blackrock llamas, as featured on TV’s Weekend Escapes with Warwick Davies.
For more information please see the website www.kingsbromleyshow.co.uk.
Wednesday Club.
A chance meeting in a greengrocer’s shop, a diary of unknown origin and a fascination for local history was the starting point of a talk based on her book “Butchers, Bakers & Bonnet Makers” by Mrs June Pickerill, a local historian and author.
Our speaker – using information from the diary and the 1841 census – concluded the author of the diary to be 12-year-old Mary Lindop, daughter of Thomas Lindop butcher and farmer of Cannock. The main part of the diary covers a 2 year period beginning December 4th 1839 and records the day to day events in the life of the family with references to many of their relatives, neighbours and customers. Many of the entries consist of single sentences – “Father went to Stafford Fair.”, “Mrs Witehed died in the Churchyard, came in well, and died in one Minet.”
Key local events are similarly recorded. “Mr Davinson was thrown out of a spring cart and killed.”, “The balloon passed through yesterday – droped not far from the crosses – came from wesbromage.” In February 1840 Mary noted that her father was dining at the Crown to honour the Queen’s wedding.
Our speaker, by cross referencing these and other events recorded in the diary with reports in the Staffordshire Advertiser, had been able to discover the full story behind many of Mary’s one-line diary entries.
Next meeting: Cream Tea at Mabel’s – August 2nd at 3.30pm.
NB: September 6th. Outing to Barmouth. Non-members welcome.
Kings Bromley WI
The Women’s Institute had a lot to discuss at their meeting in July, plus a workshop on entertaining the grandchildren.
Teresa Dacosta was the speaker but first we heard all about the National Federation’s AGM in Liverpool at which Teresa was a delegate in June. Two resolutions were passed; the first supporting research into plastic soup destroying the environment. The second was on alleviating loneliness and Jan Higgins talked about her role as care navigator, working for Age UK. Part of her job is to alleviate loneliness, as well as coordinate care packages for elderly people in the community. Age UK offer places to go to break down social isolation and also offer a befriending services run by volunteers.
The meeting continued with Teresa’s workshop on fun ideas to entertain young children with household items. We heard a brief introduction about her antics as a private Nanny in the 1980s and then we were shown how to make lots of different games from milk cartons, sock balls, a treasure hunt with cereal boxes and slime from shaving foam. The ladies then had the opportunity to make gingerbread playdough, which we hope to sell on the Kings Bromley show stall. The ingredients for this were kindly donated by the Coop and what was left given to the Tweenies toddler group.
There will be no meeting until September, but we will be meeting at the Royal Oak on 10th August for afternoon tea, £2 deposit; if members are interested please see Sue or Pauline.
